I have put some thought into it, but don't have anything concrete yet. I have always felt that those using the MSI UI have always had limited/poor options when it comes to authoring, and the syntax doesn't provide a lot of help.
I'm sure anything comprehensive will of necessity become a v4 feature. However, I want to provide some means to at least make what we have more amenable to the kinds of tweaks people need to accomplish. What would help is if several people would please add a page to a wiki and supply simple details (with sufficient detail to understand the desired changes) of the customizations people are doing to their dialogs. There are two wikis out there, I really don't want people to create a third one. If I can thus identify some core scenarios that I could implement via extension for 3.x then I will post that for all to use. Also, we will work on a way to make it much better in 4.x (which Rob & Bob have already publicly said will be dedicated to making the authoring more concise/simpler for many common scenarios). -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 7:34 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to change/define the size of the main UI form To me, that pretty much defeats the purpose of wrapping the UI up into a nice extension. I wish WiX had another mechanism to inherit / extend / transform / override the Mondo experience other then ditching the reference and using the source. Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me ----- Original Message ---- From: Nick Ramirez <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, October 21, 2010 9:22:34 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to change/define the size of the main UI form bundybob wrote: > > I'm trying to deal with an issue where text on the form is running into a > graphic which I'm hoping is anchored to the right side. I was trying to > find where the dimensions of the form are defined. > The width and height is defined on the Dialog element of the form. The WixUI_Mondo reference means that you've got a project reference to the WixUIExtension assembly, where the Mondo collection of forms is defined. The typical way of customizing these forms is to download the WiX source, copying the relevant .wxs files into your project, renaming them, and customizing them. Hope this helps. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/How-to-change- define-the-size-of-the-main-UI-form-tp5656662p5661095.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
