Re: [WiX-users] Updating msiexec status window from custom action

2010-08-09 Thread Gary Gocek
No, this had no effect. the little status window did not change. Your instructions were pretty simple, I just added a element to the WIX script, referring to the ID of the custom action, and I expected the message to appear while the CA was running. The CA takes several seconds, but there was

Re: [WiX-users] Updating msiexec status window from custom action

2010-08-06 Thread Christopher Painter
If you just want a simple message to be displayed, consider using the ActionText table ( ProgressText element )   You shouldn't need a CA to do that. http://jonorossi.com/blog/archive/2008/07/20/wix-progress-text-for-a-custom-action.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367516(VS.85)