>Not sure if you can make it smaller, I would try and see what happens.
Nice idea, unfortunately it stretches the bitmap to fit over the whole page.
:(
Rob, would a bug report/suggestion to eliminate the background behaviour be
something that would be possible?
Dave
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>I prefer to advertise my shortcuts to avoid all these problems.
OK, this example has sorted me out:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/alexshev/archive/2008/02/20/from-msi-to-wix-part-
10-shortcuts.aspx
It's hard to find the wheat from the chaff with all the WiX information
around. :(
Dave
>I prefer to advertise my shortcuts to avoid all these problems.
OK, I started down that path too and also had problems with that. :(
Do you know of a concise example of doing what I need using advertised
shortcuts?
Dave
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I've followed the instructions here:
http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/create_start_menu_shortcut.htm, to
add a start menu shortcut, and while that produces no warnings, I thought it
would be more elegant to use [#MyApplicationFile] for the target like this:
>You need to supply you own version of background bitmap, see
http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/WixUI_customizations.htm. The
variable to set is WixUIDialogBmp e.g.
<
Thanks Neil.
I presume the stock bitmap is just plain white?
Is there no way to remove the bitmap so that we get the sa
Does anyone know how to change the final property page from a white
background to the default grey - so that an added check box doesn't look
ridiculous (with its grey background over the white page)?
Dave
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>On the last step of the installation, there are texts showing:
Completed the Setup Wizard.
I know is user provide, how about other text " Completed the
... Setup Wizard ", are they build with the tool, or can we customize those
text ?
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You can add additional text using:
Dave
>Afraid that is a bug in windows installer (not WiX) as it doesn't set the
transparent windows style.
Poo. :(
OK, I guess the other way to look at it is then; why is the final page
background white (rather than grey)?
I notice that all other pages (End-User License Agreement, Destination
Folder,
Using the latest version of WiX, I've added a check box to the ExitDialog
using:
This results in the check box with the text, but also an ugly large grey
rectangle behind the check box (while the property page is white).
There's a bug report about the check box background
"ExitDial
>Each of the WiX toolset web sites has at least one link to the bug
database. I like this one: http://wixtoolset.org/bugs. Click the "Add new"
link.
OK, done:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3557290&group_id=105970&ati
d=642714
Dave
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>Ahh, that is absolutely a bug in the documentation. Please do file it.
OK, how do I do that?
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1. Hopefully the "too many web sites" are really just:
http://wixtoolset.org, http://wix.sourceforge.net and
http://wix.codeplex.com.
>If you're looking for long treatsies on understandig the WiX toolset the
Tutorial and Book are available.
I was more looking to just getting something simple to
>... maybe the tutorial link and/or the documentation like could/should go
in the mailing list footer?
Possibly, but it wouldn't have helped me. Finding how to get onto this
mailing list was an exercise in persistence in itself. Despite finding the
list archives I had to specifically Google for in
>The documentation is supposed to explicitly call out that harvesting was
disabled in WiX v3.6 due to many issues that arose at the end of WiX v3.5.
Can you point out the documentation that still recommends harvesting so we
can fix it?
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It's in help file supplied with the latest download - under
>The official website: http://wixtoolset.org
<
There are too many WiX web sites - when floundering I didn't know which one
to look at next. :)
Even the official site is a bit confusing in that the front page recent news
implies the May 28 RC version is the latest and greatest, but the "See the
la
>I can second the referral to the WiX book. You can find more info at
http://www.amazon.com/WiX-Developers-Guide-Windows-Installer/dp/1849513724/
ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344872345&sr=1-1&keywords=wix
Thanks, I'll have a look at this.
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>Have you looked at the WiX book?
Which one is that?
>The learning curve is a little steep, but well worth it :-)
I've come to the conclusion that the starting difficulties I've had could so
easily be resolved by not having out of date documentation supplied, and
having the IDE create a more wel
>The WiX Tutorial should help you get started ->
http://wix.tramontana.co.hu/ It's far superior to the help files for
learning the basics.
Thanks, I have come across that in my floundering. The problem is that as a
newbie I have no idea what information is right, wrong, or indifferent, and
the fac
tarted with WiX in VS IDE?
I guess the attachment was filtered by your AV.
However, please have a look at the following:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3553206&group_id=105970&;
atid=642714
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-Original Message-
From: David Lowndes [mailto:dav...@mvps.org]
>Harvesting has been disabled in 3.6, I think because it was rather buggy.
Brilliant!
I guess everyone in the know has long since stopped using it - despite it
being the default modus operandi mentioned in the documentation to get folks
going?
Dave
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From: Aditya Mohan [mailto:amo...@quark.com]
Sent: 13 August 2012 12:00
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to get started with WiX in VS IDE?
~A
-Original Message-
From: David Lowndes [mailto:dav...@mvps.org]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012
I've installed the latest version of WiX (V3.6.3206.0) in VS 2012 and have
followed the "Creating a Simple Setup" item under "Working in Visual
Studio".
After adding a value for "Manufacturer" (something not mentioned in the help
topic) as it causes error CNDL0006, the project builds and produc
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