1 - answered an almost identical question yesterday funnily enough with a link to the documentation page explaining exactly how to do what you're asking -> http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/WixUI_customizations.htm
2 - That's a standard part of the WiX UI & has been for a very long time -> http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/run_program_after_install.htm Both those pages are in the WiX.chm which you will have on your local machine where you've installed WiX 3.0/3.5 & there is a shortcut in your start menu to it too. The documentation isn't even lots of levels deep & it's fully searchable on the web & in the .chm. Custom dialogs aren't a weak spot in WiX, they're actually a very strong point. The problem is people look at the stock WiX UI's & think that's all that is available/supported rather than seeing that they're supplied as an easy UI solution to save people time when all they want is something pretty standard. You can drop the entire WiXUI if you wish & author a whole custom UI from scratch in your packages. That's a drastic step for most people but it's 100% supported & documented if you look in the WiX documentation (see http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wix_xsd_ui.htm & it's children). You'd probably want to put your custom dialog with regards to shortcuts before the PrepareDlg as once you hit the "install" button it's too late to do Feature/Component conditions (which is what you'll need with appropriate properties to do what you want to do) but it's up to you where you want it. Replacing the exit dialog is also easily done by reading the first link I pasted above but my guess is you won't need to once you read the second. Palbinder Sandher Software Deployment & IT Administrator T: +44 (0) 141 945 8500 F: +44 (0) 141 945 8501 http://www.iesve.com **Design, Simulate + Innovate with the <Virtual Environment>** Integrated Environmental Solutions Limited. Registered in Scotland No. SC151456 Registered Office - Helix Building, West Of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0SP Email Disclaimer -----Original Message----- From: xxxxxx [mailto:contactnim...@googlemail.com] Sent: 26 May 2010 16:41 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Custom dialogs - once more Hi wix users, I admit, I am not creating wix packages the whole day long, and so I look into wix from time to time when I need to create an installer for a software. So far I managed to click together simple installers which copy some files. Now I want to go one step further: what is missing in the standard dialogs is a dialog which - asks the user whether he wants shortcuts on the desktop, the start menu, or both - asks the user whether he wants to start the application right after the installation has finished Seems pretty easy, and is included in many installers I've seen. Unfortunately, even after sinking considerable time into digging documentations (found almost none, and the ones I found rised almost as many questions as they answered, or were wrong or incomplete or both. Can anyone provide a sample which shows me how to do this? I have already learned that custom dialogs are quite a weak spot in the wix toolkit, so I don't care much wehere in the sequence the custom dialog is inserted (before or after the installation part), thogh putting it at the end would be the best way to do it, bit I already failed trying to replace the exit dialog (sequence number -3) since the wix toolkit seems to reject negative dialog numbers alltogether - so I guess tehre isn't a way to do it in the current version. Thanks, AL ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
