Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox control state modified by user

2014-12-08 Thread Majcica, Mario
discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox control state modified by user Hi John, My problem is that the check box is read only on the installer side. Meanwhile if I set my property via code it works fine. The problem is that after that I can't modify the state o

Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox control state modified by user

2014-12-08 Thread John Cooper
@jackhenry.com -Original Message- From: Majcica, Mario [mailto:mario.majc...@bakerhughes.com] Sent: Monday, December 8, 2014 12:58 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox control state modified by user Hi John, My problem is that the check box i

Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox control state modified by user

2014-12-08 Thread Majcica, Mario
ooper [mailto:jocoo...@jackhenry.com] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 17:47 To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox control state modified by user Check boxes are NOT set to "0" when unchecked. Effectively, the property is set to string.Empty which und

Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox control state modified by user

2014-12-08 Thread John Cooper
Check boxes are NOT set to "0" when unchecked. Effectively, the property is set to string.Empty which undefines it. The property will be set ONLY if the check box is "checked." To check for the property being unset, use NOT VS2012CHECKED. -- John Merryweather Cooper Senior Software Engineer

Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox Value via Custom Action

2012-05-25 Thread Ravi Raj
Is there any update? On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Ravi Raj wrote: > Any suggestions??? > > > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Ravi Raj wrote: > >> I have done this thing: >> >> > Id="CA_SetProperty_EV" Property="ENABLEVIRTUALIZATION" Value="0" >> Execute="firstSequence" /> >>> Before="

Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox Value via Custom Action

2012-05-18 Thread Ravi Raj
Any suggestions??? On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Ravi Raj wrote: > I have done this thing: > > Id="CA_SetProperty_EV" Property="ENABLEVIRTUALIZATION" Value="0" > Execute="firstSequence" /> > Before="AppSearch">NOT Installed AND NOT > OLDERVERSIONDETECTED > NOT Installed AND NOT > OL

Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox Value via Custom Action

2012-05-14 Thread Ravi Raj
I have done this thing: NOT Installed AND NOT OLDERVERSIONDETECTED NOT Installed AND NOT OLDERVERSIONDETECTED Now when chkbox is disabled, the registry stored value=0 (which is correct). Again, when I click Verify button (some action performed) and chkbox gets enabled (and its checked by def

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox tree for file type association

2010-04-26 Thread Bob Arnson
On 4/26/2010 2:21 AM, Lisa Gracias wrote: > I know the Winamp installer uses NSIS, but does Wix (or rather, Windows > Installer) have something similar that would let me create a checkbox tree? > Nope. You can get a feature tree or you can get checkboxes but not even a checkbox list view. --

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox not transparent

2010-03-10 Thread Neil Sleightholm
My preferred approach is to make the checkbox only as wide as the checkbox part and then use a label for the label part. This works but has the downside of not allowing you to click the label to set the check (IMHO I think this doesn't matter and matches the way most web pages work). Neil

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox not transparent

2010-03-10 Thread Kristoffer Danielsson
gt; From: b...@joyofsetup.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox not transparent > > On 3/10/2010 6:21 AM, Kristoffer Danielsson wrote: > > That checkbox looks ugly. How do you make it transparent (or solve it some > > other way)? > &

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox not transparent

2010-03-10 Thread Bob Arnson
On 3/10/2010 6:21 AM, Kristoffer Danielsson wrote: > That checkbox looks ugly. How do you make it transparent (or solve it some > other way)? > Checkboxes can't be transparent. You can customize the dialog to remove or resize the bitmap. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ --

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox not transparent

2010-03-10 Thread Nuno Romao
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Re: [WiX-users] checkbox issues

2009-05-29 Thread Bob Arnson
Sascha Beaumont wrote: > So I've scoured the documentation and tried every which way... but I > can't for the life of me figure out how to de-select a checkbox based > on a registry value. > If you're using control events, use {} to indicate an empty string, which deletes the property and shou

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox on finish page on uninstallation.

2009-05-29 Thread Bob Arnson
Hukumchand Shah wrote: > But I don't know which file it shows on finish. I guess may be 'ExitDialog'. > This is documented in WiX.chm. See "WixUI Dialog Library Reference." -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Re

Re: [WiX-users] checkbox issues

2009-05-29 Thread Routhier Louis
There is surely a better way to do it but if you need a way to do it fast, you could build a customAction do either lookup the registry itself or else set a value in the registry for both cases (installed and not installed) so that your custom action could drop the row if the not installed value

Re: [WiX-users] checkbox issues

2009-05-28 Thread Rob Mensching
I haven't tired in a while, but can't you set the Property to an empty value and have the Property go away? PS: AFAIK, the Value column of the Property has never been nullable so I'm not sure how you'd get Orca to set the Property to blank in the MSI database. Sascha Beaumont wrote: > Okay, >

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox does not recognize when it is checked

2007-10-30 Thread Bob Arnson
xyavier wrote: > > >DELALL = "1" > > > > > > > That's not going to work the way you want. RemoveFile and RemoveFolder work on uninstall when the component itself is being uninstalled. That means it h

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox does not recognize when it is checked

2007-10-30 Thread Richard
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, xyavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is how it is set up Well, I think you're going to have to dig into log files and your MSI with Orca instead of just relying upon inspection of WiX fragments to debug this problem. Have you tried that? -- "The Dire

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox does not recognize when it is checked

2007-10-30 Thread xyavier
This is how it is set up -- Check the box to Delete extensibility.dll --- DELALL = "1"

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox does not recognize when it is checked

2007-10-30 Thread xyavier
This is how it is set up -- Check the box to Delete extensibility.dll --- DELALL = "1"

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox does not recognize when it is checked

2007-10-30 Thread Richard
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, xyavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No it isn't. It will work if I put the box in the UI during the setup and > have it checked. If it is placed in the uninstall sequence however it will > not acknowledge the box is checked. OK, you know there's no such th

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox does not recognize when it is checked

2007-10-30 Thread Bob Arnson
xyavier wrote: > No it isn't. It will work if I put the box in the UI during the setup and > have it checked. If it is placed in the uninstall sequence however it will > not acknowledge the box is checked. > How are you using the check box value? -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ --

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox does not recognize when it is checked

2007-10-30 Thread xyavier
No it isn't. It will work if I put the box in the UI during the setup and have it checked. If it is placed in the uninstall sequence however it will not acknowledge the box is checked. Bob Arnson-6 wrote: > > xyavier wrote: >> boB, It does however bring up my UI when someone clicks the change

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox does not recognize when it is checked

2007-10-29 Thread Bob Arnson
xyavier wrote: > boB, It does however bring up my UI when someone clicks the change button in > the ARP. My plan was to remove the "Remove" button so the user would be > forced to use my UI which gives them the option to either remove or repair. > So, under this situation is there any way to allow

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox does not recognize when it is checked

2007-10-29 Thread xyavier
boB, It does however bring up my UI when someone clicks the change button in the ARP. My plan was to remove the "Remove" button so the user would be forced to use my UI which gives them the option to either remove or repair. So, under this situation is there any way to allow them to check the box

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox does not recognize when it is checked

2007-10-28 Thread Bob Arnson
xyavier wrote: > Is there a way to allow the user to make the decision when he is > uninstalling the software? > When uninstall from Add Remove Programs, there's no UI shown. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ - This

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox does not recognize when it is checked

2007-10-25 Thread xyavier
I got the checkbox to work, but I still have a problem. My problem with the checkbox was that I was presenting the checkbox during the uninstall process. When I present the same code during install it works fine. The problem is that I don't want to ask the user if he wants to uninstall extra files

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox does not recognize when it is checked

2007-10-24 Thread Richard
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, xyavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > MSI (s) (AC:D0) [14:19:52:507]: Component: MyComponent; Installed: Local; > Request: Absent; Action: Absent OK, this says your component is installed and will be removed. Isn't there anything later in the log about f

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox does not recognize when it is checked

2007-10-24 Thread xyavier
I did look at them in Orca, it looks OK to me. My verbose log is as follows when it is not checked: MSI (s) (AC:D0) [14:19:52:507]: Component: MyComponent; Installed: Local; Request: Absent; Action: Absent PROPERTY CHANGE: Deleting DELALL property. Its current value is '1'. The log is the sa

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox does not recognize when it is checked

2007-10-24 Thread Richard
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, xyavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am trying to give the option to delete some extra files if the user checks > a checkbox on uninstall. I can bypass the checkbox and make it delete the > files but when the checkbox is present, it deletes the files whe

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox on exit dialog

2007-08-30 Thread Sriram Vasudevan
Thanks! https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=642717&aid=1784996&gro up_id=105970 From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:49 PM To: Sriram Vasudevan Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox on

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox on exit dialog

2007-08-29 Thread Bob Arnson
Sriram Vasudevan wrote: I am using properties WIXUI_EXITDIALOGOPTIONALTEXT and WIXUI_EXITDIALOGOPTIONALCHECKBOXTEXT to show a checkbox in the finish dialog that gives an option to the user to start our program on finish. However, this does not take effect when the user installs some feat

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox drawn with different coloured background

2007-07-28 Thread Bob Arnson
John Hall wrote: Thanks Bob. I think I was being a little bit thick - I had forgotten that the bitmap extends across the whole of the dialog. It seems to be that if the standard dialog sets are going to offer the option to display that checkbox they shouldn't by default use a bitmap that exten

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox drawn with different coloured background

2007-07-27 Thread John Hall
John Hall wrote: I wanted to add a checkbox at the end of my installer and found the WIXUI_EXITDIALOGOPTIONALCHECKBOXTEXT property. However, when the checkbox is displayed it is drawn with the wrong background colour - see the attached screenshot. This is with Wix 3.0.3

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox drawn with different coloured background

2007-07-26 Thread Bob Arnson
John Hall wrote: I wanted to add a checkbox at the end of my installer and found the WIXUI_EXITDIALOGOPTIONALCHECKBOXTEXT property. However, when the checkbox is displayed it is drawn with the wrong background colour - see the attached screenshot. This is with Wix 3.0.3120.0. Is there a way a

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox that won't check or un-check

2007-07-17 Thread Bob Arnson
Scott Palmer wrote: > I've only used merge modules to install shared components like the VC8 > runtime. I assume that merge modules would update all products in the > case of machine-wide shared components like that. Patches target specific products so they can't be used to let Microsoft, fo

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox that won't check or un-check

2007-07-17 Thread Scott Palmer
On 7/16/07, Bob Arnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Scott Palmer wrote: > Microsoft certainly doesn't like to make things easy do they? I > assume though that if someone in the WMF group clued in to using MSI > that they might also have the foresight to provide a merge module for > the redistrib

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox that won't check or un-check

2007-07-16 Thread Bob Arnson
Scott Palmer wrote: > Microsoft certainly doesn't like to make things easy do they? I > assume though that if someone in the WMF group clued in to using MSI > that they might also have the foresight to provide a merge module for > the redistributables. Kind of like they should have years ago.

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox that won't check or un-check

2007-07-16 Thread John Hall
Microsoft certainly doesn't like to make things easy do they? I assume though that if someone in the WMF group clued in to using MSI that they might also have the foresight to provide a merge module for the redistributables. Kind of like they should have years ago. How

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox that won't check or un-check

2007-07-16 Thread Scott Palmer
Microsoft certainly doesn't like to make things easy do they? I assume though that if someone in the WMF group clued in to using MSI that they might also have the foresight to provide a merge module for the redistributables. Kind of like they should have years ago. However, assuming that they

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox that won't check or un-check

2007-07-13 Thread Bob Arnson
Scott Palmer wrote: > I've got a checkbox in my installer that for some reason cannot be > changed by the user and I haven't a clue why. Anyone got some ideas? You need to specify the CheckBoxValue attribute. > > ... >After="InstallFiles"> >After="InstallFiles"> > ... > N

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox

2007-04-10 Thread Søren Schimkat
Rob Hamflett skrev: Don't set a value to the property at all. The checkbox is checked based on whether the property is set, How simple can it be. :-) Thanks for the tip - it works just fine. Regards Søren even if it's set to 0. CheckBoxValue is the value assigned to the property

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox

2007-04-10 Thread Rob Hamflett
Don't set a value to the property at all. The checkbox is checked based on whether the property is set, even if it's set to 0. CheckBoxValue is the value assigned to the property when the checkbox is checked, so you probably want this to be 1. You'd then use LAUNCH = 1 or LAUNCH <> 1 in you

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox --> Desktop Shortcut

2007-03-14 Thread Rob Mensching
ubject: Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox --> Desktop Shortcut Dark has never been a proper decompiler. It works for the most part, but it's basically in there so you can open up existing MSIs and find out what's going on as a starting point. The WiX team have always said that you shouldn&#

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox --> Desktop Shortcut

2007-03-14 Thread Lasse Rantanen
OK, Thank you Rob - everyday you learn something. So I forget this approach. Lasse - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox --> Desktop Shortcut

2007-03-14 Thread Rob Hamflett
Dark has never been a proper decompiler. It works for the most part, but it's basically in there so you can open up existing MSIs and find out what's going on as a starting point. The WiX team have always said that you shouldn't expect a dark'd MSI to compile. Rob Lasse Rantanen wrote: > He

Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox and Eenvironment Variable

2007-01-15 Thread Bob Arnson
Iqbal wrote: > I would like to set the environment variable using a checkbox. The > checkbox should be checked by default, meaning environment variable > should be set unless the user unchecks it. > > > Value="[INSTALLDIR]" System="yes" Permanent="no" /> > EnvironmentSetCheck >

Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox question...

2006-11-22 Thread Rob Mensching
eforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox question... That worked, thanks. I guess I was confused by the following warning: C:\MQ\ndp\fx\src\xmltools\Tools\XmlNotepad\Wix\XmlNotepad.wxs(112,0): Warning CNDL1006: Property 'LicenceAccepted' does not contain a Value attribute and is

Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox question...

2006-11-07 Thread Chris Lovett
element is being ignored. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of david adams Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:32 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox question... Chris: Set your property to no value by defaul

Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox question...

2006-11-07 Thread david adams
Chris Lovett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net" > >Subject: Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox question... >Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 11:04:56 -0800 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from lists-outbound.sourceforge.net ([66.35.250.225]) by >bay0-mc4-f15.bay0.ho

Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox question...

2006-11-07 Thread Cullen Waters
Just a guess, but I’d try changing the CheckBoxValue=”1” to a “0”   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Lovett Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:54 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] CheckBox question...   I’m trying to

Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox Problem

2006-10-15 Thread Bob Arnson
Agustín K-ballo Bergé wrote: Didn't work either. Here is my code now: Huh. Well, I can't explain it -- the same approach works in WixUI. Can you reproduce it without the bitmap? -- sig://boB http://bobs.org ---

Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox Problem

2006-10-13 Thread Agustín K-ballo Bergé
Didn't work either. Here is my code now: Installed Bob Arnson escribió: Agustín K-ballo Bergé wrote: Good advice, but didn't work :(. I wasn't aware that the location of the control items represented the z-order. Now I'm thinking that my problem should be prob

Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox Problem

2006-10-12 Thread Bob Arnson
Agustín K-ballo Bergé wrote: > Good advice, but didn't work :(. I wasn't aware that the location of the > control items represented the z-order. Now I'm thinking that my problem > should be probably related to my show action. > Try reversing the logic. Leave it visible and then have a "hide"

Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox Problem

2006-10-12 Thread Agustín K-ballo Bergé
Good advice, but didn't work :(. I wasn't aware that the location of the control items represented the z-order. Now I'm thinking that my problem should be probably related to my show action. NOT Installed K-ballo.- Bob Arnson escribió: > Agustín K-ballo Bergé wrote:

Re: [WiX-users] CheckBox Problem

2006-10-12 Thread Bob Arnson
Agustín K-ballo Bergé wrote: > Everything works as expected, except for a visual glitch. The CheckBox > is not shown until it gets mouse focus! Could this be related to a > z-order problem? Probably. Take a look at WixUI v3's ExitDialog. Try putting the bitmap first. -- sig://boB http://bobs

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox and SQL scripts

2006-09-06 Thread Rob MacFadyen
Petrut, Did you get an answer to this? How where you planning on executing the SQL Scripts? If through a custom action of your own then you need to add a condition to the custom action (more or less, something like: COMBOBOXVALUE = "X"). This looks like: (note: The above assumes the existence