Richard [legal...@xmission.com] noted that properties set by custom actions called from dialogs aren't recognized by the dialogs that call the custom actions unless you have the dialog "reset" the properties using the properties' new values. He has blogged about it as well as mentioned it several times in this list, as well as published his workaround for it.
-----Original Message----- From: Robert Hermann [mailto:rob.herm...@nicewareintl.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 7:28 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix Install - Limitations in Custom Dialogs / Custom Actions Does Wix have any limitations with regards to the number of Custom Dialogs or Custom actions it can perform ? My scenario is a relatively complex install where the install does some database checks and user permissions checks in custom actions. I have one custom action that is called from my .wxs install script. That one custom action performs all the database /user permission checks. It stores the results of these checks in session.Item("a database flag") variables. Upon the return from this custom action, the install the examines the values of session.item -variables-. The install then knows to display warning dialog boxes or the next configuration dialog. All this is initially launched from a custom dialog where I list all the SQL servers I see on the network. On this dialog I allow the choose the sql server and then click the next button. The next button calls my custom action. The problem that I am seeing is that the when I click the next button on my "ServerSelectDialog" I see no response But in the log file that I generate using /l*v, I can see all session.Item("a database flag") being set. I don't see any errors in this log file either .... <Publish Dialog="ServerSelectDialog" Control="Back" Event="NewDialog" Value="LicenseAgreementDlg" Order ="1"></Publish> <Publish Dialog="ServerSelectDialog" Control="Next" Event="DoAction" Value="ValididateServerConfigAndUserPermissions" Order ="1"></Publish> <Publish Dialog="ServerSelectDialog" Control="Next" Event="NewDialog" Value="CurrentUserCantCreateDatabaseDialog" Order ="2"><![CDATA[DATABASEALREADYEXISTS="FALSE" AND VALIDSERVERADDRESS="TRUE" AND HTSSQLVERSION="HTS_COMPATIBLE_VERIFIED" AND USERCANCREATEDATABASE="FALSE"]]></Publish> <Publish Dialog="ServerSelectDialog" Control="Next" Event="NewDialog" Value="DatabaseUserAndServerPortDialog" Order ="3"><![CDATA[DATABASEALREADYEXISTS="FALSE" AND VALIDSERVERADDRESS="TRUE" AND HTSSQLVERSION="HTS_COMPATIBLE_VERIFIED" AND USERCANCREATEDATABASE="TRUE"]]></Publish> <Publish Dialog="ServerSelectDialog" Control="Next" Event="NewDialog" Value="DatabaseVersionWarningDialog" Order ="4"><![CDATA[VALIDSERVERADDRESS="FALSE" OR HTSSQLVERSION="HTS_COMPATIBLE_UNKNOWN"]]></Publish> <Publish Dialog="ServerSelectDialog" Control="Next" Event="NewDialog" Value="DatabaseAlreadyExistsDialog" Order ="5"><![CDATA[DATABASEALREADYEXISTS="TRUE" AND HTSSQLVERSION="HTS_COMPATIBLE_VERIFIED" AND VALIDSERVERADDRESS="TRUE"]]></Publish> <Publish Dialog="ServerSelectDialog" Control="Cancel" Event="SpawnDialog" Value="CancelDlg" Order ="1"></Publish> I'll be looking at this but can anyone see from first glance why I'm getting this behavior ? Rob Hermann ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
