Ok, you need to look into control events. Essentially, you want
something like this (obviously with more info about your control - but
the interesting bit here is the Condition elements)
<Control Id="MyControl" Hidden="yes">
<Condition Action="show">MYPROPERTY</Condition>
<Condition Action="hide">NOT MYPROPERTY</Condition>
</Control>
The Hidden attribute sets the default, while the show/hide Condition
elements control the state based on MYPROPERTY after that. In this
case the control will be hidden if MYPROPERTY is not set.
Hope that helps
2009/8/12 Dirk Räder <[email protected]>:
> Hi John,
>
> *Shown or hidden based on properties* is exactly the thing I want to do.
> Which properties of MSI contain the current state of the installation?
>
> Dirk
>
> 2009/8/12 John Ludlow <[email protected]>
>
>> I believe there are DTF-based frameworks for that but they're not very
>> complete yet. However there are other ways to customise the UI to
>> show different messages, depending on what the OP wants to do.
>>
>> For example, in an application I write the install for, we use
>> FatalError if there is an installation failure, but we also call a
>> config app during the installation. If that fails then we don't want
>> to roll back because it's something the user may be able to fix
>> themselves by re-running the app. To do that, I have a CA which swaps
>> out the value of the ExitDialog record in the sequence table to be
>> ConfigError (a dialog I put together which has an option for viewing
>> the logs and for adding ).
>>
>> You can also rework your copy of ExitDialog to have custom controls
>> with values which are based on properties (for example, a text label
>> whose text value is based on a property you can set with a CA) or a
>> shown or hidden based on properties.
>>
>> Like I say, it depends on what you want to do.
>>
>> John
>>
>> 2009/8/12 Peter Shirtcliffe <[email protected]>:
>> >
>> > Not all at. You can do all the UI customisation you like if you write an
>> external UI handler but thats a good amount of work. Maybe DTF would make it
>> easier - Ive never looked into it.
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Dirk Räder [mailto:[email protected]]
>> > Sent: 12 August 2009 13:26
>> > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
>> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to display message depending on
>> installationstatus?
>> >
>> > Hi and thanks.
>> >
>> > So the only way is to make use of ExitDialog, Cancel Dialog and
>> FatalErrorDialog, right? Sad ...
>> >
>> > Dirk Räder
>> >
>> > 2009/8/12 Peter Shirtcliffe <[email protected]>
>> >
>> >> You define different dialogs for different status types and MSI will
>> >> show the right one. This should tell you what you need to know
>> >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368284(VS.85).aspx<http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368284%28VS.85%29.aspx>
>> <http://ms
>> >> dn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368284%28VS.85%29.aspx>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Dirk Räder [mailto:[email protected]]
>> >> Sent: 12 August 2009 11:29
>> >> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
>> >> Subject: [WiX-users] How to display message depending on installation
>> >> status?
>> >>
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> I have an installer with an exit dialog. I want to have it display
>> >> different messages according to the installation status (success /
>> >> failure / user cancelled / ...).
>> >>
>> >> Are there any properties provided by MSI that I could check? If so,
>> >> for what values do I have to check?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance,
>> >>
>> >> Dirk Räder
>> >>
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