IMHO, MSI UI is dead. There is very little that we can do outside of the Windows Installer to make packages look better than they did 1997.
Burn, with its External UI handler, is where I'll be focusing my efforts. We can be far more successful there. You are, of course, welcome to try do well with MSI UI if you wish. <smile/> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Blair <os...@live.com> wrote: > 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:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] > 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 <nickra...@hotmail.com> > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > 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. 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