Hi,
Do you mean to add a WIX dialog for the key in the MSI?
Do you know of any tutorials to help me with this as I'm getting "Debug
Assertion Failed" on:
ASSERT(m_lpszTemplateName != NULL || m_hDialogTemplate != NULL ||
m_lpDialogTemplate != NULL);
Thanks
Natalie
-----Original Message-----
From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com]
Sent: 09 August 2012 19:22
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] C++ Custom Action Dialogs
I hope you aren't under the illusion that scheduling the Key CA is at all
going to prevent someone without a key from installing your software. It
would not take much to use Orca or similar tools to remove your CA from the
sequence and allow the install to continue. I believe the recommendation is
to prompt for a key /activation during first run of the application.
If you are hard set on this then I would ensure that your dialog is being
invoked only during the InstallUI sequence. From there, you can test your CA
outside of Windows Installer by simply having an export setup that invokes a
generic MFC dialog.
-----Original Message-----
From: Natalie Carr [mailto:natalie.c...@measuresoft.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 11:26 AM
To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] C++ Custom Action Dialogs
Hi Jacob,
The dialog I want to display is the key dialog, the user has to enter the
correct key for the software. This is all been created as we used it on our
installshield wizards but now my job is to change all our installers to WIX.
I was thinking of just re using the same dialog as it is all programmed,
etc. What would you suggest I do otherwise? Yes it is an MFC dialog..:)
Thanks
Natalie
-----Original Message-----
From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com]
Sent: 09 August 2012 17:15
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] C++ Custom Action Dialogs
All I can think to say is "don't do it"! If this dialog is to show an error
or to gather more user input, then how would this work in an unattended
install? What if the installer is invoking this custom action from an
elevated state? If you need a custom UI, then I would highly suggest in
investigating burn. With burn your MSI can remain pure and property driven.
If I had to guess, the reason you are having issues is because either you
are invoking this custom action in a deferred state under the system context
(in which case it doesn't have access to your desktop) or you are trying to
create a MFC dialog from a dll. I seem to remember having to do some extra
work to get a dialog to display from a DLL.
Jacob
-----Original Message-----
From: Natalie Carr [mailto:natalie.c...@measuresoft.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 10:50 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] C++ Custom Action Dialogs
Hey,
Been trying to create a dialog in C++ Custom Action project so that I can
call it in one of my functions which my WIX msi will call. Is this possible
as I've been trying to do it and am getting nowhere and now I'm thinking
that I could be wasting my time if WIX does not support this.
Kind Regards,
Natalie Carr
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