Or tie a custom action to a button.

Rob

Bob Arnson wrote:
> Alec Siu wrote:
>> I know from searching the archive that this question has been asked in the 
>> past, but has there been any progress or has someone written a publicly 
>> available custom action to allow display of a hyperlink in an installer 
>> dialog? 
> MSI doesn't support custom controls so a CA wouldn't do the trick.
> 
>> If not, is the recommended way to implement this via a dialog box written 
>> from scratch in C++? Are there any implications fitting such a dialog into 
>> the installer flow?
>>   
> I don't think anyone would recommend it at all. It's possible to use a 
> CA to show UI but only as a modal dialog that's present at the same time 
> as the previous dialog. It's a poor user experience because they were 
> using a wizard and now you're mixing in a modal dialog that's pretending 
> it's a wizard page.
> 
> If the link is that important, you should instead consider an external 
> UI handler for the entire UI.
> 


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