Re: [WiX-users] OpenFileDialog fails in Win7

2010-09-17 Thread Steve Green
IT WORKS!! I have to do a little tidying up and add the code to set my WIX property with the selected file but the dialog now appears! Thanks very much for your help Mike, I think I may be able to finish the week on a high after all! -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml

Re: [WiX-users] OpenFileDialog fails in Win7

2010-09-17 Thread Steve Green
That's great Mike, thanks, I'll give it a go. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/OpenFileDialog-fails-in-Win7-tp5538592p5542668.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --

Re: [WiX-users] OpenFileDialog fails in Win7

2010-09-17 Thread MikeR
I ran into this same problem when trying to use OpenFileDialog(). You need to make a new thread with a different appartment type for the UI to show. Here is a sample of what I did to make it work. // create a new thread with appropriate apartment state to launch UI FileBrowser fileBrowser =

Re: [WiX-users] OpenFileDialog fails in Win7

2010-09-16 Thread Steve Green
Thanks for the reply Nick. I tried the BrowseDlg but it only goes down to directory level and doesn't allow you to select individual files. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/OpenFileDialog-fails-in-Win7-tp5538592p5539413.html Sent from

Re: [WiX-users] OpenFileDialog fails in Win7

2010-09-16 Thread Nick Ramirez
WiX does offer up a browse dialog control called DirectoryList. It's often paired up with a PathEdit control to display the path you've selected, a button to navigate up one directory (PushButton control that publishes the DirectoryListUp event), a button to create a new folder (PushButton that pu

Re: [WiX-users] openfiledialog

2009-02-15 Thread Brian Rogers
Hey Dieter, It will be difficult to achieve what you are looking for using the native Windows Installer UI. You could look at the file browse dialog used in WixUI_InstallDir. From there I would look at using a custom action to validate the property value selected. If it isn't valid, prompt a warni

[WiX-users] openfiledialog

2009-02-13 Thread Dieter Janzen
Hi, I really hope you can help me. I wrote an installer that works, but now I need a interface, where the user have to choose a file with a certain name. It is possible that there are more than one file with this name. And I have to get the path of this file while the installation so i can set