I want to make an installer that lets the user enter a key, which is then evaluated by a custom action. Depending on the result of this evaluation, the installer should download a set of MSI's from a remote location and install them with no further action from the user. As far as I know, in order to run installers without UIs, I have to use a Bootstrapper application, or the user will end up having to click "next" a whole lot.
The problem is, the Bootstrapper application has no support for custom actions or custom dialogs, so I'd have to put the license key dialog in a separate MSI that goes in my Bootstrapper chain, but then that separate MSI will be run in its own window instead of as part of the Bootstrapper application, which looks bad. And even then, I don't know of any way I can pass the results from this separate MSI back into the Bootstrapper application, so that it knows which MSI's in the rest of its chain to download. I know it's possible to pass variables from the Bootstrapper application into MSIs as MsiProperties, but I don't think the opposite is true. Another option is to have the key be appended to the download URLs for the packages, and let the server decide whether the installer should be allowed to download the package. This would eliminate the need for a custom action, but I'd still need a custom dialog for entering the key, and some way of passing this key back into the Bootstrapper application. Yet another option is to instead have the MSI that contains the custom dialog call the Bootstrapper application and pass it variables containing the key, or which packages to download, but I don't think that's possible either. And even if it is possible, it would again result in two installation windows since the Bootstrapper application can't be run without a UI of its own. Is there a recommended way, or any way at all, of doing what I'm trying to do? -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Download-packages-only-if-custom-action-returns-some-value-tp7587032.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
