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

[Linda Barnhart]

Thanks. You answered my question, but to try and make it clear: our case is
that - in an attempt to update their registration key - a customer might
run the exe/bundle again with the same version#, so the installer goes into
Maintenance Mode. I was hoping to add the Change button there and have it
call the setup’s UI.

Are there examples of a custom bootstrapper application that you can direct
me to?

On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 6:25 PM Sean Hall via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> 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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