That's a nice approach Richard. Thanks, Lionel
-----Original Message----- From: Richard [mailto:legal...@xmission.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 7:48 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Texbox validation while typing In article <e97904f9d7b3024ebaaa45446f039aa107fd4...@mail.iiu.ie>, "Lobo, Lionel" <lionel.l...@daon.com> writes: > I've seen solutions that employ a checkbox to confirm the input, which > then sets a property to conditionally enable the Next button, but would > ideally like to do the validation as a user is typing. What I've done is to handle validation when they click Next. If the input is invalid, then a modal error dialog is shown and the transition to the next dialog is aborted. If the text is valid, then the transition to the next dialog is taken. All that matters is that you not transition out of a dialog with invalid input. It really isn't going to make much difference to the user if it happens as soon as they type the first bad character or when they click next. Remember, we're talking about an installer here that people are going to run once to install your product. Its not an application they're going to be sitting in every single day, hanging on its responses to every single keystroke. Keep your UI simple and your install will be simple and you will have fewer problems and your customers will like you better. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
