Within the <Product> tag, add a property
<Property Id='MOTTO' Value="The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" />
The property name MUST be all upper case! Why is this?
This property will be used to edit an XML file:
<Component Id='Xml' Guid='C56A4180-574D-4A9A-A266-5B5EDDD022A4'>
<File Id='Xml' Name='Sample.xml' DiskId='1' Source='Sample.xml' KeyPath='yes'/>
<util:XmlFile Id="ModifyDataItem" Action="setValue" ElementPath="/sample/servername/@test" File="[INSTALLDIR]Sample.xml" Value="[MOTTO]"/>
</Component>
We add our own UI. We "raid" source code for Wix to borrow the "MinimalUI". We include this in our Wix compile and add a reference.
<UIRef Id="MyMinimalUI"/>
We compile as follows:
candle .\SampleFirst.wxs .\MyWelcome.wxs .\MyMinimal.wxs .\MuEula.wxs .\NewLink.wxs -ext WixUtilExtension
light .\SampleFirst.wixobj .\MyMinimal.wixobj .\MuEula.wixobj .\NewLink.wixobj .\MyWelcome.wixobj -o SF.msi -ext WixUtilExtension -ext WixUIExtension
MyMinimal is largely an exact copy of WixUI_Minimal.wxs from the Wix source code.
It has the following differences:
Set the Id of the new UI.
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi">
<Fragment>
<UI Id="MyMinimalUI">
<TextStyle Id="WixUI_Font_Normal" FaceName="Tahoma" Size="8" />
<TextStyle Id="WixUI_Font_Bigger" FaceName="Tahoma" Size="12" />
<TextStyle Id="WixUI_Font_Title" FaceName="Tahoma" Size="9" Bold="yes" />
We need to change the EULA dialog, because it will no longer install after you click "Install". Therefore we need a new box. Also, we need our new link in the chain
<DialogRef Id="MyWelcomeDlg" />
<DialogRef Id="MyWelcomeEulaDlg" />
<DialogRef Id="UserRegistrationDlg" />
We also need to add our new dialog to the install sequence
<InstallUISequence>
<Show Dialog="MyWelcomeDlg" Before="MyWelcomeEulaDlg">Installed AND PATCH</Show>
<Show Dialog="MyWelcomeEulaDlg" Before="ProgressDlg">NOT Installed</Show>
<Show Dialog="UserRegistrationDlg" Before="ProgressDlg"/>
</InstallUISequence>
We also need events:
<Publish Dialog="MyWelcomeDlg" Control="Next" Event="NewDialog" Value="VerifyReadyDlg">Installed AND PATCH</Publish>
<Publish Dialog="VerifyReadyDlg" Control="Back" Event="NewDialog" Value="MyWelcomeDlg" Order="2">Installed AND PATCH</Publish>
The
MyWelcomeDlgis never shown - why do we consider it here??
This file is almost an exact copy of the EULA from Wix source code.
The following have been changed.
<UI>
<Dialog Id="MyWelcomeEulaDlg" Width="370" Height="270" Title="!(loc.WelcomeEulaDlg_Title)">
<Control Id="Bitmap" Type="Bitmap" X="0" Y="0" Width="370" Height="234" TabSkip="no" Text="!(loc.WelcomeEulaDlgBitmap)" />
...
<Control Id="LicenseAcceptedCheckBox" Type="CheckBox" X="130" Y="207" Width="226" Height="18" CheckBoxValue="1" Property="MyLicenseAccepted" Text="!(loc.WelcomeEulaDlgLicenseAcceptedCheckBox)" />
...
<Control Id="Install">
<Publish Event="EndDialog" Value="Return" Order="3">1</Publish>
...
<Condition Action="disable"><![CDATA[MyLicenseAccepted <> "1"]]></Condition>
<Condition Action="enable">MyLicenseAccepted = "1"</Condition>
...
</Control>
<Control Id="InstallNoShield">
<Publish Event="EndDialog" Value="Return" Order="3">1</Publish>
...
<Condition Action="disable"><![CDATA[MyLicenseAccepted <> "1"]]></Condition>
<Condition Action="enable">MyLicenseAccepted = "1"</Condition>
...
</Control>
we have moved cost based conditions to this screen - they are no longer needed at the EULA stage. Is there a better way of doing this?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi">
<Fragment>
<UI>
<Dialog Id="UserRegistrationDlg" Width="370" Height="270" Title="[ProductName] Setup" NoMinimize="yes">
<Control Id="NameLabel" Type="Text" X="45" Y="73" Width="100" Height="15" TabSkip="no" Text="Enter a motto:" />
<Control Id="NameEdit" Type="Edit" X="45" Y="85" Width="220" Height="18" Property="MOTTO" Text="{80}" Indirect="no" />
<Control Id="Next" Type="PushButton" X="236" Y="243" Width="56" Height="17" Default="yes" Text="Install">
<Publish Event="SpawnWaitDialog" Value="WaitForCostingDlg">!(wix.WixUICostingPopupOptOut) OR CostingComplete = 1</Publish>
<Publish Event="EndDialog" Value="Return"><![CDATA[OutOfDiskSpace <> 1]]></Publish>
<Publish Event="SpawnDialog" Value="OutOfRbDiskDlg">OutOfDiskSpace = 1 AND OutOfNoRbDiskSpace = 0 AND (PROMPTROLLBACKCOST="P" OR NOT PROMPTROLLBACKCOST)</Publish>
<Publish Event="EndDialog" Value="Return">OutOfDiskSpace = 1 AND OutOfNoRbDiskSpace = 0 AND PROMPTROLLBACKCOST="D"</Publish>
<Publish Event="EnableRollback" Value="False">OutOfDiskSpace = 1 AND OutOfNoRbDiskSpace = 0 AND PROMPTROLLBACKCOST="D"</Publish>
<Publish Event="SpawnDialog" Value="OutOfDiskDlg">(OutOfDiskSpace = 1 AND OutOfNoRbDiskSpace = 1) OR (OutOfDiskSpace = 1 AND PROMPTROLLBACKCOST="F")</Publish>
</Control>
<Control Id="Cancel" Type="PushButton" X="304" Y="243" Width="56" Height="17" Cancel="yes" Text="Cancel">
<Publish Event="SpawnDialog" Value="CancelDlg">1</Publish>
</Control>
<Control Id="BannerBitmap" Type="Bitmap" X="0" Y="0" Width="370" Height="44" TabSkip="no" Text="WixUI_Bmp_Banner" />
<Control Id="Description" Type="Text" X="25" Y="23" Width="280" Height="15" Transparent="yes" NoPrefix="yes">
<Text>Please configure your application</Text>
</Control>
<Control Id="BottomLine" Type="Line" X="0" Y="234" Width="370" Height="0" />
<Control Id="Title" Type="Text" X="15" Y="6" Width="200" Height="15" Transparent="yes" NoPrefix="yes">
<Text>{\WixUI_Font_Title}Configuration</Text>
</Control>
<Control Id="BannerLine" Type="Line" X="0" Y="44" Width="370" Height="0" />
</Dialog>
</UI>
</Fragment>
</Wix>
Note the following:
<Control Id="NameEdit" Type="Edit" X="45" Y="85" Width="220" Height="18" Property="MOTTO" Text="{80}" Indirect="no" />
The text box will be automatically populated. We need Indirect="no" to write the contents of the text box back to the property
Can information we enter when not privileged by used when we are????