Re: [WiX-users] Customizing dialog sets

[Albert van Peppen]

Hmm.. I did it some other way; maybe the wrong way? But it is much easier (at least it seems to me and it works);   1. Copy the WixUI_<xxx>.wxs (for example the WixUI_Mondo.wxs) to your projects include folder (yes, i really using them) as WixUI_MyCustom.wxi 2. Edit the WixUI_MyCustom.wxi: Change the UI id <UI Id="WixUI_Mondo"> into <UI Id="WixUI_MyCustom"> 3. Remove/insert your refs to dialogs and reorder the dialogs, if you like, by changing the WixUI_xxx_Next and WixUI_xxx_Back properties for the appropriate dialogs 4. Optional: Create your own wxi files with the dialogs in it; copy sample code from the library sources but don't use fragments.    (Make sure to use unique IDs like MyCustomLicenseAgreementDlg) 5. Optional: Include your dialog include files in WixUI_MyCustom.wxi with <?include ...?> (try to maintain the same structure in your dialog as in the code in the WixUI lib-sources) 6. Include WixUI_MyCustom.wxi in your wxs file and use the UIRef <UIRef Id="WixUI_MyCustom" /> 7. Build your project   This way there is no need to build a seperate wixlib and you can keep everything in one project easily. It would be neat if you could 'override' a specific dialog. Then you you can change a single dialog tou your own needs without all the other fuss..   As said; it works for me. Now in Wix-2.0. But i don't know if it'll work in Wix-3.0 (most likely not ?) But then again, i hope the UI handling in Wix-3.0 is somewhat 'better' (don't ask me how to define 'better' :-) )   Hope this can help heating the discussion? <smile />     Albert van Peppen Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Neil Sleightholm Verzonden: donderdag 22 juni 2006 20:50 Aan: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Onderwerp: Re: [WiX-users] Customizing dialog sets The WiX Tutorial covers some of this but the process I used: 1. Copy all the files in src\ui\wixui to a new folder 2. Copy src\ui\wixui\mondo\WixUI_Mondo.wxs (or which ever base file you want) to the same folder. 3. Rename WixUI_Mondo.wxs and edit it to add/remove the features you want. 4. Remove any redundant wsx files. 4. Compile with:          candle *.wxs 5. Followed by:         lit -out customui.wixlib *.wixobj 6. Copy the wixlib file (customui.wixlib) to your main WiX folder (where candle.exe etc is). 7. You can then reference the new ui in your wxs file:         <UIRef Id="WixUI_MyUI" />     and light against the new wixlib file.         e.g. light -out Setup.msi *.wixobj customui.wixlib -loc WixUI_en-us.wxl   Hope this helps   Neil   From: John Hidey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 June 2006 18:29 To: Bob Arnson; Neil Sleightholm Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Customizing dialog sets After doing this, does anything need to be recompiled?   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Arnson Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 12:13 PM To: Neil Sleightholm Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Customizing dialog sets   Neil Sleightholm wrote: In the online help there is this paragraph: "You can most easily add and remove dialogs from the stock dialog sets by copying one of the existing sets and modifying it. For an example, see the project in the doc/examples/wixui/custom directory."   This example doesn't seem to exist, is it missing from the downloads? Is the example available somewhere? It's currently broken, which is why it hasn't been added. It's on my bug list but hasn't come up the priority list yet. All I want to do is remove the License dialog as it is not appropriate for internal releases. Is there an easy way to remove it? What the example shows is copying one of the "set" fragments (e.g., WixUI_InstallDir.wxs) and modifying the properties and adding/removing DialogRefs to point to different dialogs. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org

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