Thanks Richard. You are an invaluable source of information.

Richard-45 wrote:
> 
> 
> In article <1243888350711-3008461.p...@n2.nabble.com>,
>     achandrapano <achan...@panologic.com>  writes:
> 
>>         <Control Id="ActionData" Type="Text" X="135" Y="125" Width="220"
>> Height="30" Transparent="yes" NoPrefix="yes">
>>           <Subscribe Event="ActionData" Attribute="Text" />
>>         </Control>
>>         <Control Id="ActionText" Type="Text" X="135" Y="100" Width="220"
>> Height="20" Transparent="yes" NoPrefix="yes">
>>           <Subscribe Event="ActionText" Attribute="Text" />
>>         </Control>
> 
> Are these the controls displaying the messages?
> 
> If so, you can drop these controls from the dialog and that will solve
> your problem.
> 
> The intention of ActionData and ActionText controls is to display
> status messages during lengthy operations.  Standard and custom
> actions can publish notifications during their operation that will
> display on these controls.  If you don't like the display of these
> status messages, particularly on a transient dialog like PrepareDlg,
> then simply drop the controls and the messages will not be displayed.
> 
> If you add a lengthy custom action, or a standard action starts taking
> quite a bit of time during preparation, then you may find it useful to
> keep these controls on PrepareDlg as it will tell the user that your
> install is not "hung", but is instead performing useful work.
> 
> Templates for standard and custom action messages can be placed in the
> ActionText table, or they can be issued directly by the action's code.
> Its better to use the ActionText table because it allows the messages
> to be localized for internationalized installations.
> 
> Another alternative to removing the controls is to look in your
> ActionText table and see if the templates you don't like are present.
> You can simply null out the Template column for actions you wish to
> hide.
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