External UI can be managed using the MsiSetExternalUI function. If you've
installed Visual Studio 2002 or later, or SQL Server 2005, or Exchange
Server 2003 or later, you've used an external UI handler.
See "Monitoring an Installation Using MsiSetExternalUI" in the SDK
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370053.aspx).
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Mike Dimmick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Lalande
Sent: 12 January 2007 16:57
To: Rob Mensching
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] clicking on checkbox pseudo labels
"External UI"? Does that mean an external application driving the install?
If so, that sounds really cool. I can imagine the interesting installer UI
implementations that would be possible.
I solved my problem with the checkbox label by chopping the white part off
if the bitmap so that the checkbox is not over a bitmap.
Which brought up another question..if I were to replace the bitmaps, should
the new bitmaps be limited to a small set of colors?
On 1/11/07, Rob Mensching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nope. You've found the paradox that is putting controls on top of images.
If you include the text in the checkbox controls area, then it is ugly. If
you shrink the checkbox to only be the checkbox, you can't click on text and
accessibility (screen readers, in particular) is rendered useless.
That's why I tell my designers not to put controls over bitmaps. and why I'm
looking at external UI for the setup chainer (in six months or so).
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Lalande
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:45 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] clicking on checkbox pseudo labels
I have implemented a "Launch [ProductName]" checkbox according to section
8.6 of the tutorial at http://www.tramontana.co.hu with one small change.
Because the background of the checkbox is gray (and cannot be changed) and
the background of the panel is white (which is not very attractive), I have
made the checkbox small enough that its label is gone and added a separate
Text control that can have a transparent background. The problem with this
is that unlike the checkbox label, clicking on this Text control does not
toggle the checkbox.
Is there way to configure the Text control to respond to a mouse click and
toggle the checkbox?
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