[wix-users] UI Dialog Changes

Ven H venh.123 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 20 19:49:53 PST 2018


Can you please let me know the answers for my questions?

On 20-Jan-2018 10:11 PM, "Habib Salim via wix-users" <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> Hi Ven
> WIX Cookbook by Nick Ramirez got me off to a good start.  Help from this
> mailing list and few websites/blogs on Wix got the job done.
>
> I did all these things (except for removing the print button) in my first
> WiX installer, plus a few simple custom actions.
>
> I even built a bootstrapper application to install dependencies (mostly to
> install an instance of SQL Server Express/localdb) but dropped it.
>
> You can create custom dialogs and sequence them in the order you like.
> These are WinForms forms.
> One frustration was the inability to hook into control events. i.e. I
> could not find a way to trigger changes in UI based on values entered in
> text boxes
>
> You can enable or disable buttons or options based on radio buttons but
> you cannot change label text - say "Label text $(variable or property)
> blah "
> That sort of remains frozen from when the dialog was first created.
>
> I heard that there was a way to force a dialog redraw.  Haven't found it
> (yet) because I found ways around that need for now.
>
>
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