Maybe there is a bug in the WiXUI. I have never used WiX's UI in any product I've shipped, and we recently started shipping languages that Windows Installer's UI doesn't support very well at all, so we dropped in-MSI UI entirely when we went with bootstrappers to manage our UI in a unified way for our suite (similar to what Office and Developer Division at MSFT had already done).
Looking closely at the source code, I don't see the expected "EndDialog" publish event. The Property is set from pushing the Remove button and something is supposed to register that as a REMOVE=ALL type setting (eventually) but Next is disabled in that window and no other events seem to be triggered looking at the source code. I need to push this back to the WiX team to see who knows how WiXUI is put together and how maintenance-mode UI is supposed to work. -----Original Message----- From: little.forest [mailto:little.for...@ymail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 4:23 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to add a dialog box when uninstall The mail was sent before it was finished. Let me continue. Ok, I went a little trouble to get the MaintenanceTypeDlg.wxs from the Wix source and put it in my project. I renamed it as MyMaintenanceTypeDlg.wxs. Then I removed this line: <Condition Action="disable">ARPNOREMOVE</Condition> I also changed MyWixUI_InstallDir.wxs for this line to use the changed MaintenanceTypeDlg: <Publish Dialog="MaintenanceWelcomeDlg" Control="Next" Event="NewDialog" Value="MyMaintenanceTypeDlg">1</Publish> Then I compiled and run. I did see the [Remove] button, but when I clicked on it, nothing happened. Here is the InstallUISequence table from msi: AppSearch 50 CostInitialize 800 FileCost 900 CostFinalize 1000 FatalError -3 UserExit -2 MyExitDialog -1 ExecuteAction 1300 PrepareDlg 49 ProgressDlg 1299 ResumeDlg Installed AND (RESUME OR Preselected) 1297 WelcomeDlg NOT Installed 1298 MaintenanceWelcomeDlg Installed AND NOT RESUME AND NOT Preselected 1296 NewerVersionDetected NEWAPPFOUND 201 LaunchConditions 100 FindRelatedProducts 200 ValidateProductID 700 Here is the log when I uninstalled it: MSI (c) (94:B8) [16:20:58:774]: Doing action: MaintenanceWelcomeDlg MSI (c) (94:B8) [16:20:58:774]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: ActionText Action 16:20:58: MaintenanceWelcomeDlg. Action start 16:20:58: MaintenanceWelcomeDlg. Action 16:20:58: MaintenanceWelcomeDlg. Dialog created MSI (c) (94:CC) [16:20:58:852]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Modifying CostingComplete property. Its current value is '0'. Its new value: '1'. MSI (c) (94:CC) [16:20:58:852]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: BindImage MSI (c) (94:CC) [16:20:58:852]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: ProgId MSI (c) (94:CC) [16:20:58:852]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: PublishComponent MSI (c) (94:CC) [16:20:58:852]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: SelfReg MSI (c) (94:CC) [16:20:58:852]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Extension MSI (c) (94:CC) [16:20:58:852]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Font MSI (c) (94:CC) [16:20:58:852]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Class MSI (c) (94:CC) [16:20:58:852]: Note: 1: 2727 2: MSI (c) (94:CC) [16:20:59:727]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Error MSI (c) (94:CC) [16:20:59:727]: Note: 1: 2228 2: 3: Error 4: SELECT `Message` FROM `Error` WHERE `Error` = 2898 Info 2898. WixUI_Font_Title, Tahoma, 1 Action 16:20:59: MyMaintenanceTypeDlg. Dialog created MSI (c) (94:CC) [16:21:01:805]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding WixUI_InstallMode property. Its value is 'Remove'. Action 16:21:04: CancelDlg. Dialog created Action ended 16:21:05: MaintenanceWelcomeDlg. Return value 2. MSI (c) (94:B8) [16:21:05:446]: Doing action: UserExit MSI (c) (94:B8) [16:21:05:446]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: ActionText Action 16:21:05: UserExit. Action start 16:21:05: UserExit. Action 16:21:05: UserExit. Dialog created Action ended 16:21:06: UserExit. Return value 2. Action ended 16:21:06: INSTALL. Return value 2. Thanks. ________________________________ From: Blair <os...@live.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 3:25:49 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to add a dialog box when uninstall In your copy of MaintenanceTypeDlg.wxs remove the condition on the Remove button. That is the button you want to click to uninstall from the UI. -----Original Message----- From: little.forest [mailto:little.for...@ymail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 3:10 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to add a dialog box when uninstall Thanks Blair! Here is the InstallUISequence table: AppSearch 50 CostInitialize 800 FileCost 900 CostFinalize 1000 FatalError -3 UserExit -2 MyExitDialog -1 ExecuteAction 1300 PrepareDlg 49 ProgressDlg 1299 ResumeDlg Installed AND (RESUME OR Preselected) 1297 WelcomeDlg NOT Installed 1298 MaintenanceWelcomeDlg Installed AND NOT RESUME AND NOT Preselected 1296 NewerVersionDetected NEWAPPFOUND 201 LaunchConditions 100 FindRelatedProducts 200 ValidateProductID 700 Here is the log when I run msi again to try to uninstall it. What I did were just: start the msi, saw the 'Welcome to the app 3.0 Setup Wizard', clicked [Next] button, clicked [Change] button, nothing happened though. I then click the [Cancel] to exit: MSI (c) (A0:F8) [15:01:14:290]: Doing action: MaintenanceWelcomeDlg MSI (c) (A0:F8) [15:01:14:290]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: ActionText Action 15:01:14: MaintenanceWelcomeDlg. Action start 15:01:14: MaintenanceWelcomeDlg. Action 15:01:14: MaintenanceWelcomeDlg. Dialog created MSI (c) (A0:38) [15:01:14:352]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Modifying CostingComplete property. Its current value is '0'. Its new value: '1'. MSI (c) (A0:38) [15:01:14:352]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: BindImage MSI (c) (A0:38) [15:01:14:352]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: ProgId MSI (c) (A0:38) [15:01:14:352]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: PublishComponent MSI (c) (A0:38) [15:01:14:352]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: SelfReg MSI (c) (A0:38) [15:01:14:352]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Extension MSI (c) (A0:38) [15:01:14:352]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Font MSI (c) (A0:38) [15:01:14:352]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Class MSI (c) (A0:38) [15:01:14:352]: Note: 1: 2727 2: MSI (c) (A0:38) [15:01:15:352]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Error MSI (c) (A0:38) [15:01:15:352]: Note: 1: 2228 2: 3: Error 4: SELECT `Message` FROM `Error` WHERE `Error` = 2898 Info 2898. WixUI_Font_Title, Tahoma, 1 Action 15:01:15: MaintenanceTypeDlg. Dialog created MSI (c) (A0:38) [15:01:16:884]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding WixUI_InstallMode property. Its value is 'Change'. Action 15:01:20: CancelDlg. Dialog created Action ended 15:01:21: MaintenanceWelcomeDlg. Return value 2. MSI (c) (A0:F8) [15:01:21:634]: Doing action: UserExit MSI (c) (A0:F8) [15:01:21:634]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: ActionText Action 15:01:21: UserExit. Action start 15:01:21: UserExit. Action 15:01:21: UserExit. Dialog created Action ended 15:01:22: UserExit. Return value 2. Action ended 15:01:22: INSTALL. Return value 2. ________________________________ From: Blair <os...@live.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 2:28:12 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to add a dialog box when uninstall >From Orca, what is in your InstallUISequence table? What does a verbose debug log look like in the (client) phase? Does the MaintenanceWelcomeDlg text show up at all? -----Original Message----- From: little.forest [mailto:little.for...@ymail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 2:05 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to add a dialog box when uninstall Thanks Blair. Sure, I totally agree that we should make it work first. So I just added that MaintenanceWelcomeDlg line and tried. When uninstalling, I hit the "Change" button, still nothing happens. Is there something else I can try? Many thanks. ________________________________ From: Blair <os...@live.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2009 12:45:48 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to add a dialog box when uninstall Not sure why this would be needed, but try adding <UI><DialogRef Id="MaintenanceWelcomeDlg/></UI> to your product. It is possible to add a shortcut for uninstallation where you get setup the UI and other characteristics of the uninstallation exactly how you want, but it has to work first, so let's concentrate on that first. It is incompatible with Windows Logo to create that shortcut, but nothing technical prevents you from creating it. -----Original Message----- From: little.forest [mailto:little.for...@ymail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 10:39 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to add a dialog box when uninstall Thanks Blair! I checked, there is this line in WixUI_InstallDir.wxs: <Property Id="ARPNOMODIFY" Value="1" /> So I removed this line. And added these two lines in my main wxs: <Property Id ="ARPNOREMOVE" Value="1" /> <Property Id ="ARPNOREPAIR" Value ="1" /> I Built it and installed it. After that, I double clicked the msi again, I see the "Repair" and "Remove" buttons are grayed out, the "Change" button is clickable. I clicked the 'Change' button, but there is nothing happening. What should I do the make "Change" button work? Also, is there other ways to trigger uninstallation process by not double clicking the original msi file? For our end users, I guess no one would do the uninstallation by clicking the msi file. The reason for that is, they may just download the file to a temp download folder or so, install it, and then forget about the msi file location. If now we tell them to "double click the original msi to uninstall it", it'll be not that practical. Ideally, uninstalling the application by clicking the shortcut in [Start]->[All Programs] system menu. Is it possible? Thanks. ________________________________ From: Blair <os...@live.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 7:50:10 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to add a dialog box when uninstall If "Change" is grayed out you will not get the installer UI you are looking for. Is ARPNOMODIFY set perchance? After you install, what do you see if you double-click the MSI again? You should get the "Change" experience, which is your starting point to show a modal dialog during your uninstall experience. -----Original Message----- From: little.forest [mailto:little.for...@ymail.com] Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 5:28 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to add a dialog box when uninstall By the way, I added this: <Property Id ="ARPNOREMOVE" Value="1" /> Then I run the msi again, and I saw the "Change" and "Remove" buttons were grey out. There was only the "Repair" button available. Is this correct? Also, if I run uninstallation from [start]->[All Programs], I didn't even see this UI. I only saw the basic uninstallation progress bar. Thanks. ________________________________ From: little.forest <little.for...@ymail.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 5:07:42 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to add a dialog box when uninstall I kept searching for the answer about this issue. But I couldn't find any example to make it work. Can you Wix experts point me out? What else I need to do to show UI in uninstallation, namely, "enable maintenance mode"? And further how to add a radio button etc. to enable "remove user data option" during uninstallation? (Uninstallation: I mean, the end user clicks the uninstall shortcut from [start]=>[All Programs]. I don't mean the end user re-run the msi again, or through ARP, or through command line - because normally all of our end users don't run uninstallation these ways.) ________________________________ From: little.forest <little.for...@ymail.com> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 4:19:01 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to add a dialog box when uninstall Hi Aris, Thanks! I added this in code, then the "Remove" button is gone in ARP: <Property Id ="ARPNOREMOVE" Value="1" /> But the uninstallation is still the simple progress bar. Could you please tell me how to "enable maintenance mode"? Thanks. ________________________________ From: Aris J. Green <gree...@cox.net> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 10:20:29 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to add a dialog box when uninstall Disable uninstall from Add/Remove Programs, enable maintenance mode, which will show a GUI during uninstall. Then allow user to uninstall from maintenance, typically through a radio button selection that sets REMOVE=ALL. The you can prompt the user for what you need (e.g. a SQL password to drop a database, etc.) Set up the silent uninstall to proceed from the command line silently if you want this feature by passing in the proper parameters from the command line (e.g. "SAPWD=<BASE64 Encrypted Value> SERVER=<MACHINEZ_SOMEWHERE>"). But you won't be able to run this from ARP although. Regards, greenaj On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 09:18 +0200, Sebastian Brand (Instyler Software) wrote: > Hello, > > Windows Installer executes uninstall in Silent mode (no UI) mode only. To > show a dialog, you'll have to create a custom action to show a dialog, then > schedule that during uninstall. > > > Best regards, > Sebastian Brand > > Instyler Setup - Creating WiX-based MSI installations, elegantly. > http://www.instyler.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: little.forest [mailto:little.for...@ymail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 09:04 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] How to add a dialog box when uninstall > > Hi, > > We're using WiX 3.0. How to add a dialog box when uninstall? > > We'd like to ask the end user if they want to delete their settings files in > AppData\Company\Product folder. If the answer is Yes, then we'll need to > delete that folder. And we only want this dialog box showing up when > manually uninstall by either click the uninstall shortcut or from ARP in > control panel. 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