Um using the "How To: Run the Installed Application After Setup" requires no changing of the ExitDialog what so ever. You set a few public properties & the already built in code makes the text & checkbox appear due to the conditions on the controls. There's no "new" dialog needed, you're simply making the existing one do some work for you.
Threads straying off topic is fine. Sometimes the solution isn't where you believe the problem lies especially when Windows Installer is involved. 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: Ivo Beltchev [mailto:i...@roadrunner.com] Sent: 22 June 2010 16:27 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Customizing WixUI_FeatureTree Pally Sandher wrote: > If it's a readme why not use the "Launch an Application after install" > functionality described at > http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/run_program_after_install.htm > to simply ShellExecute the RTF? That way you can give the user the > option to see your RTF using the checkbox (if you want to). At least > then they're not limited to the extent of your Windows Installer > dialog & get a richer experience using a proper RTF application. I > don't think your original intent was lost, you just never explained it. > Yes, you are right and I'm certainly considering this. But it's irrelevant to the discussion, because both ways involve inserting a new dialog after installation and before exit. What I have in that dialog - a checkbox or a full RTF window - is easy to change. > Modifying the WiXUI_FeatureTree in your WiX code is a lot easier than > your earlier suggestion of rebuilding the whole WiX UI library from > scratch as shown by Neil S's blog. You don't even have to copy the > entire thing, only the dialogs you wish to change, everything else you > just reference from the WiX UI library. > Yes, you are right again. It was probably a bad choice of words on my part. I was not considering replacing all UI (the "UI library"), just the "UI set" (the WiXUI_FeatureTree file). Of course I'll reuse as many of the original dialogs as I can. > Also a lot of the stuff you've asked in the last week would've been > answered by a perusal through the manual and/or tutorial. > My first thread was intended to give me an idea if WiX is even the right tool for my needs. I didn't want to read through all the docs just to figure out I was in the wrong place. I'm sorry - I was lazy. In my second thread (this one) I was basically asking if I can insert a dialog before Exit without replacing WiXUI_FeatureTree. The tutorials don't cover that - they only cover the regular sequence of dialogs that are connected by Back/Next buttons. Yes, that's easy, but not what I need. I was also asking how to get better integration with the Restart Manager. The tutorials also don't cover this topic. It is true that both threads strayed a bit off-topic, and I'll be more careful about that in the future. Ivo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
