[wix-users] How can I control what an added Change button in my bootstrapper’s Modify Setup does?

Sean Hall r.sean.hall at gmail.com
Tue Sep 20 18:25:11 PDT 2022


It's not clear what you're asking for. If you want the bundle to show the
MSI UI during anything besides the initial install, then that's not
supported in v3. You would have to get the bundle to show its own UI. That
would require writing your own custom bootstrapper application.

On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 7:47 PM Linda Barnhart via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> Using WiX toolset version 3.10 in Visual Studio 2019.
>
> I have a setup with a custom UI. I have a bundle/bootstrapper as we have a
> prerequisite to install if needed, and an exe was the required output of
> the VS build.
>
> After installing, in ARP which displays the setup’s UI, the Change button
> calls a custom MaintenanceWelcomeDlg whose Next button calls a custom
> MaintenanceTypeDlg which has an Update button that calls a custom dialog
> that prompts for and validates a registration key (as the setup does on
> install when needed). Works great!
>
> I’d like the added Change button in the bootstrapper’s Modify Setup to work
> the same as it does in ARP. I can add a Change button to display on the
> boostrapper’s Modify Setup dialog BUT cannot find how to Control what it
> does. What am I missing?
>
> Thanks for any and all suggestions and/or links to help me with this.
>
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