that helps a lot, thanks!!
On 11/25/06, Mike Dimmick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
1. You can declare variables in source code using <?define *
VariableName*=*"value*"?> processing instructions, and use them with
$(var.*VariableName*). You can also define the values on the *candle
* command line. See the Preprocessor topic in WiX.chm for more
information.
1. I don't think you can change the colours of the standard UI.
CustomPalette is really for palettised displays (e.g. 256 colours);
it is used to improve the rendering of graphics. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/usecustompalette_dialog_style_bit.aspfor
information on what this attribute does.
If you need to change the UI that much, you can create an external UI
handler. See MsiSetExternalUI (
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/msisetexternalui.asp)
and 'Monitoring an Installation using MsiSetExternalUI' at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/monitoring_an_installation_using_msisetexternalui.aspfor
more information on this.
--
Mike Dimmick
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*From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Victor Garcia
Aprea
*Sent:* 24 November 2006 23:08
*To:* wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
*Subject:* [WiX-users] How to parametrize dialog size
I'm pretty new to WiX so please deal with me :-)
Two quick questions:
1) During development of the UI for my installer I'm making small
adjustments to width & height of all dialogs, this is, needless to say, a
boring & tedious task. I'm looking for using a single place where I can
define a width and height and have all dialogs use this. I tried a
<Property> and a <String> and tried to reference these from the dialog
definition without any any luck... any hints on how to achieve this?
2) the UI for the setup I'm working on is HIGHLY customized, meaning, I
need to change things as control background colors and the dialog background
color itself. Using <TextStyle> I can control quite a bit all the formatting
for the text, but I'm missing the formatting of the dialog. I found <Dialog>
supports <CustomPalette> which sounds like something that may help me here,
but the doco doesn't help much, it just lists the valid values for it
[Yes|No]. What is this attribute used for?
thanks a lot,
-Victor.
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