Re: [WiX-users] Conditionally disabling the Install Location control in a bundle

2013-12-13 Thread Phill Hogland
I think the behavior could be implemented easily in WixStdBA using a BA Function (in Wix 3.8 or in Wix 3.7 with WixExtendedBA). I went down that route before I, for other reasons, decided to implement a mba. I actually prefer the wixStdBA and BA Functions, but the business wants XAML in a mba. h

Re: [WiX-users] Conditionally disabling the Install Location control in a bundle

2013-10-29 Thread John Ludlow
Thanks Bob, We'll continue to use the msistuff setup.exe bootstrapper for now, until we find time to develop our own custom managed boostrapper application. It'd probably be a useful feature to add in a future version of WiX. Thanks again. John On 29 October 2013 01:32, Bob Arnson wrote: >

Re: [WiX-users] Conditionally disabling the Install Location control in a bundle

2013-10-28 Thread Bob Arnson
On 26-Oct-13 05:15, John Ludlow wrote: > I don't think the standard bootstapper application's theming is capable of > that kind of customisation. That's correct. It would have to be a feature of WixStdBA. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ --

Re: [WiX-users] Conditionally disabling the Install Location control in a bundle

2013-10-26 Thread John Ludlow
Thanks but that's not the behaviour I need. Perhaps my explanation wasn't clear. The behaviour that I need is that when a particular registry entry exists the install location control is disabled so that the user cannot change the install directory. If the registry entry is not present then they c

Re: [WiX-users] Conditionally disabling the Install Location control in a bundle

2013-10-25 Thread santhosh yalamuri
When the user selects another folder the variable is updated. On 25 Oct 2013 00:47, "John Ludlow" wrote: > Thanks for that > > Does that prevent the user from selecting another folder? > > Thanks again > > > On 24 October 2013 17:10, santhosh yalamuri wrote: > > > We have to set InstallFolder va

Re: [WiX-users] Conditionally disabling the Install Location control in a bundle

2013-10-24 Thread John Ludlow
Thanks for that Does that prevent the user from selecting another folder? Thanks again On 24 October 2013 17:10, santhosh yalamuri wrote: > We have to set InstallFolder variable in burn bootstrapper. > > Example: Type="string" > Value=""/> > > > On Thu, Oct 24,

Re: [WiX-users] Conditionally disabling the Install Location control in a bundle

2013-10-24 Thread santhosh yalamuri
We have to set InstallFolder variable in burn bootstrapper. Example: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:31 PM, John Ludlow wrote: > Hi all, > > We have an MSI for a client application which, if you have the server > installed on the same system, must be installed in the same directory as > the server

[WiX-users] Conditionally disabling the Install Location control in a bundle

2013-10-24 Thread John Ludlow
Hi all, We have an MSI for a client application which, if you have the server installed on the same system, must be installed in the same directory as the server. During the MSI install wizard for the client application, we use AppSearch to detect whether the server component is installed. If it