Pretty simple: I would like to have a edit-field where there is already text inside (a kind of default value) but which is also editable.
I tried a lot of different version but nothing wanted to work yet.
This is the last version I tried (the checkbox works just fine):
<Property Id="MYPROPERTY" Value="default" />
<UI>
<Dialog Id="ConfigVariablesDlg" Width="370" Height="270">
<Control Type="Edit" Id="InputField" Property="MYPROPERTY" X="125" Y="27" Width="100" Height="15" Indirect="yes" Text="[MYPROPERTY]">
<Condition Action="disable"><![CDATA[EnableBox<>"1"]]></Condition>
<Condition Action="enable">EnableBox="1"</Condition>
</Control>
<Control Type="CheckBox" Id="MyBox" Width="10" Height="10" X="110" Y="30" Property="EnableBox" CheckBoxValue="1"/>
</Dialog>
</UI>
when you define your property you simply have to assigne it a value like this
<Property Id="MYPROPERTY">Text you want to fill in</Property>
So you cut away your Value Field from your Control Element and define your Property beforehand. (Still Inside your UI Element!)
So in the end your code should look something like this
<UI>
<Property Id="MYPROPERTY">Text you want to fill in</property>
<Dialog Id="ConfigVariablesDlg" Width="370" Height="270">
<Control Type="Edit" Id="InputField" Property="MYPROPERTY" X="125" Y="27" Width="100" Height="15" Indirect="yes">
<Condition Action="disable"><![CDATA[EnableBox<>"1"]]></Condition>
<Condition Action="enable">EnableBox="1"</Condition>
</Control>
<Control Type="CheckBox" Id="MyBox" Width="10" Height="10" X="110" Y="30" Property="EnableBox" CheckBoxValue="1"/>
</Dialog>
*edit also I am pretty (but not entirely sure)
![CDATA[EnableBox<>"1"]]
should be
![CDATA[EnableBox<>1]]
atleast thats how it worked for me
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I am trying to run a custom action at the end of my Wix installer but only if certain conditions are met. The user runs through the installer and they will choose one of two modes that set the property 'ServiceType'. The two values for the property are "RegisterNew" and "LinkExisting". You can see by the log below that when the user selects "LinkExisting" in the UI that it changes the property but the custom action still runs.
MSI (c) (D4:44) [11:20:15:686]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Modifying ServiceType property. Its current value is 'RegisterNew'. Its new value: 'LinkExisting'.
Here is my custom action code:
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="RegisterServiceNameCustomAction" Before="InstallFinalize">
<![CDATA[(ServiceType="RegisterNew") AND (NOT Installed)]]>
</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
<Fragment>
<Binary Id="RegisterServiceCustomActionBinary" SourceFile="$(var.RegisterServiceCustomAction.TargetDir)$(var.RegisterServiceCustomAction.TargetName).CA.dll" />
<CustomAction Id="RegisterServiceNameCustomAction" BinaryKey="RegisterServiceCustomActionBinary" DllEntry="ShowRegisterService" Execute="deferred" Return="check" />
</Fragment>
Here are the different conditions I have tried:
(ServiceType="RegisterNew") AND (NOT Installed)
<![CDATA[(ServiceType="RegisterNew") AND (NOT Installed)]]>
ServiceType="RegisterNew" AND NOT Installed
Here is the code for my custom Dialog where they are selecting making their selection that will change "ServiceType":
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi">
<Fragment>
<UI Id="SelectServiceDlg">
<Property Id="ServiceType" Value="RegisterNew" />
<Dialog Id="SelectServiceDlg" Width="370" Height="270" Title="[ProductName] [Setup]" NoMinimize="yes">
<Control Id="BannerBitmap" Type="Bitmap" X="0" Y="0" Width="370" Height="44" TabSkip="no" Text="[DialogBitmap]" />
<Control Id="BannerLine" Type="Line" X="0" Y="44" Width="370" Height="0" />
<Control Id="BottomLine" Type="Line" X="0" Y="234" Width="370" Height="0" />
<Control Id="Description" Type="Text" X="25" Y="23" Width="280" Height="40" Transparent="yes" NoPrefix="yes" Text="Determine whether you need to register a new service or link an existing service." />
<Control Id="Title" Type="Text" X="15" Y="6" Width="200" Height="15" Transparent="yes" NoPrefix="yes" Text="Service Type Selection" />
<Control Id="BothScopes" Type="RadioButtonGroup" X="20" Y="55" Width="330" Height="120" Property="ServiceType">
<RadioButtonGroup Property="ServiceType">
<RadioButton Value="RegisterNew" X="0" Y="0" Width="295" Height="16" Text="Register New Service" />
<RadioButton Value="LinkExisting" X="0" Y="60" Width="295" Height="16" Text="Link Existing Service" />
</RadioButtonGroup>
</Control>
<Control Id="RegisterNewServiceDescription" Type="Text" X="33" Y="70" Width="300" Height="36" NoPrefix="yes" Text="Select this option if you are going to register a new service.">
</Control>
<Control Id="LinkExistingDescription" Type="Text" X="33" Y="130" Width="300" Height="36" NoPrefix="yes" Text="Select this option if you are going to link an existing service to this service.">
</Control>
<Control Id="Back" Type="PushButton" X="180" Y="243" Width="56" Height="17" Text="!(loc.WixUIBack)" />
<Control Id="Next" Type="PushButton" X="236" Y="243" Width="56" Height="17" Default="yes" Text="!(loc.WixUINext)" />
<Control Id="Cancel" Type="PushButton" X="304" Y="243" Width="56" Height="17" Cancel="yes" Text="!(loc.WixUICancel)">
<Publish Event="SpawnDialog" Value="CancelDlg">1</Publish>
</Control>
</Dialog>
</UI>
</Fragment>
</Wix>
Here is an image of the UI:
So my question is why is it executing the custom action even though my condition is specifically checking that property?
After some reading of documentation and looking at all of the "properties" of the tag in WIX I decided to try and set a couple of other values and see what happened. I found that when defining the Property if you mark it as secure it then retains its value throughout the entire install process whereas if it is not secure it does not seem to do that. So now my property definition looks like this:
<Property Id="SERVICE_TYPE" Secure="yes" Value="RegisterNew" />
You'll notice that I had to change the name to call caps because when you mark a property as a secure property then you can not have any lowercase letters in the name.
Here is a snippet from the WIX documentation:
Secure -- YesNoType -- Denotes that the property can be passed to the server-side when doing a managed installation with elevated privileges. See the SecureCustomProperties Property for more information.
WIX Documentation For Property Element
In my installer I want user to connect to database. I support 4 database types in my product.
In the connect to database dialog I created, there is a ComboBox control with all supported database types, Edit control where user suppose to enter the connection string and a PushButton, when pressed it will show connection string text template in Edit control according to selected database type in ComboBox. Now, the problem is:
User clicks Show Template button when MSSQL is selected
User alters manually place holder in text template connection string in Edit
control
User realize that he needs MySQL connection
User change value in ComboBox to MySQL and clicks Show Template button and nothing
happens.
To summarize this, after Edit control were manually altered, the Show Template stops working.
Here is WiX code use:
<Fragment>
<!-- Supported databases templates -->
<Property Id="MSSQLTemplate" Value="Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=[database];Integrated Security=yes"/>
<Property Id="MySQLTemplate" Value="Server=localhost;Uid=[username];Pwd=[password];Database=[database];" />
<Property Id="DB2Template" Value="Server=localhost;Uid=[username];Pwd=[password];Database=[database];" />
<Property Id="OracleTemplate" Value="Data Source=[database];User Id=[username];Password=[password];" />
<Property Id="PROP_DATABASE_TYPE">MSSQL</Property>
<Property Id="PROP_CONNECTIONSTRING"></Property>
<Binary Id="CA_DLL" SourceFile="$(var.CustomActions.TargetDir)CustomActions.CA.dll" />
<CustomAction Id="caShowTemplate" BinaryKey="CA_DLL" DllEntry="ShowTemplate" Execute="immediate" />
<UI Id="InstallDlg_UI">
<TextStyle Id="Tahoma_Regular" FaceName="Tahoma" Size="8" />
<Property Id="DefaultUIFont" Value="Tahoma_Regular" />
<Dialog Id="InstallDlg" Width="370" Height="270" Title="Amazing Software" NoMinimize="no">
<!-- Database type -->
<Control Id="lblDatabaseType" Type="Text" X="20" Width="100" Y="60" Height="18" NoPrefix="yes" Text="Database Type" />
<Control Id="cbDatabaseServer" Type="ComboBox" X="120" Width="90" Y="60" Height="18" Property="PROP_DATABASE_TYPE" ComboList="yes" Sorted="yes">
<ComboBox Property="PROP_DATABASE_TYPE">
<ListItem Text="MSSQL" Value="MSSQL" />
<ListItem Text="MySQL" Value="MySQL" />
<ListItem Text="Oracle" Value="Oracle" />
<ListItem Text="DB2" Value="DB2" />
</ComboBox>
</Control>
<Control Id="btnShowTemplate" Type="PushButton" X="215" Y="60" Width="85" Height="17" Text="Show Template">
<Publish Event="DoAction" Value="caShowTemplate" Order="1">1</Publish>
<Publish Property="PROP_CONNECTIONSTRING" Value="[PROP_CONNECTIONSTRING]" Order="2">1</Publish>
</Control>
<!-- Connection string -->
<Control Id="lblConnectionString" Type="Text" X="20" Width="100" Y="85" Height="18" NoPrefix="yes" Text="Connection String" />
<Control Id="tbConnectionString" Type="Edit" X="120" Width="180" Y="85" Height="18" Property="PROP_CONNECTIONSTRING" Text="[PROP_CONNECTIONSTRING]" />
<Control Id="CancelButton" Type="PushButton" Text="Cancel" Height="17" Width="56" X="180" Y="243" Cancel="yes">
<Publish Event="EndDialog" Value="Exit" />
</Control>
</Dialog>
<InstallUISequence>
<Show Dialog="InstallDlg" Before="ExecuteAction" />
</InstallUISequence>
</UI>
</Fragment>
And a custom action written in C#:
[CustomAction]
public static ActionResult ShowTemplate(Session session)
{
string selectedDatabase = string.Format("{0}Template", session["PROP_DATABASE_TYPE"]);
session["PROP_CONNECTIONSTRING"] = session[selectedDatabase];
return ActionResult.Success;
}
What am I doing wrong?
Your code doesn’t have any issue. It is a well-known limitation of WIX UI. Check the below discussions for more details.
http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/UI-Edit-Box-not-updating-td5077648.html
Wix Interactions with Conditions, Properties & Custom Actions
I am stuck in doing with WIX radio group button,I want to know
Whether i can able to disable text box based on selection of WIX radio group button like mentioned in the image below.
And how is it possible to save selection of radio group button value.As i needed the selected radio box value and save in registry.
for registry is it possible to assign the 1st text box value based on this condition?
<Condition><![CDATA[if (RADIOGROUP=1)<Property Id="RADIOGROUP" Value="[TEXTBOX1]" />]]></Condition>
<RegistryKey Root="HKLM" Key="SOFTWARE\Company\Service" >
<RegistryValue Name="RADIOGROUP" Value="[RADIOGROUP]" Type="string" >
</RegistryKey>
Can anyone help me.
Assuming you have your Radio Button as following:
<RadioButtonGroup Property="SOME_PROPERTY">
<RadioButton Value="0" Text="disable / hide labels" />
<RadioButton Value="1" Text="enable / show labels" />
</RadioButtonGroup>
you can control visibility or availablility of other elements in the dialog by using Condition sub-element:
<Control Id="SomeLabel" Type="Text" Text="text:">
<Condition Action="disable"><![CDATA[SOME_PROPERTY <> "1"]]></Condition>
<Condition Action="enable"><![CDATA[SOME_PROPERTY = "1"]]></Condition>
</Control>
<Control Id="SomeLabel2" Type="Text" Text="text2:">
<Condition Action="hide">SOME_PROPERTY = "0"></Condition>
<Condition Action="show">SOME_PROPERTY = "1"></Condition>
</Control>
Following the request in comments, posting an example of updating property with values of Edit elements (some required control attributes are ommited for clarity):
<CustomAction Id="CA_SET_TO_A" Property="P" Value="[AA]" />
<CustomAction Id="CA_SET_TO_B" Property="P" Value="[BB]" />
<Dialog Id="MyDialog" Title="[ProductName] Setup">
<Control Id="Next" Type="PushButton" Default="yes" Text="!(loc.WixUINext)">
<Publish Event="DoAction" Value="CA_SET_TO_A">R="USE_A"</Publish>
<Publish Event="DoAction" Value="CA_SET_TO_B">R="USE_B"</Publish>
</Control>
<Control Id="MyRadioButton" Type="RadioButtonGroup" Property="R">
<RadioButtonGroup Property="R">
<RadioButton Value="USE_A" Text="Save text field 1" />
<RadioButton Value="USE_B" Text="Save text field 2" />
</RadioButtonGroup>
</Control>
<Control Id="A" Type="Edit" Property="AA" Text="{64}">
<Condition Action="disable">R="USE_B"</Condition>
<Condition Action="enable">R="USE_A"</Condition>
</Control>
<Control Id="B" Type="Edit" Property="BB" Text="{64}">
<Condition Action="disable">R="USE_A"</Condition>
<Condition Action="enable">R="USE_B"</Condition>
</Control>
</Dialog>
Dialog.wxs
<UI>
<Dialog Id="UserRegistrationDlg" ... >
<Control Id="NameEdit" Type="Edit" X="45" Y="85" Width="220" Height="18" Property="NameValue" Text="{80}" />
</Dialog>
<UI>
In Product.wxs I created a property
<Property Id="NameValueProperty" Value="NameValue" />
Then, as I understood, I have to use [NameValueProperty] for getting value but id doesn't work ... What's wrong?
A verbose log file should show you the changes to the properties. Very useful when tracking down these sort of things. In this case, your example code is actually setting a Property called NameValue to the value in the edit box. If you want to default the value in the edit box then you would do something like:
<Property Id="NameValue" Value="Show this in the edit box" />
And to reference the value you'd use [NameValue]. Alternatively, you could change your code to be:
<UI>
<Dialog Id="UserRegistrationDlg" ... >
<Control Id="NameEdit" Type="Edit" X="45" Y="85" Width="220"
Height="18" Property="NameValueProperty" Text="{80}" />
<Dialog>
<UI>
You generally want to use a Secure Custom Property in this situation. This is a property that is both Public (i.e. CAPS ) and marked as Secure A value is only required if you want there to be a default value.
<Property Id="MYPROPERTY" Secure="yes" />
I'm facing an issue with my WiX installer.
I have a custom dialog that contains an edit control linked to a property. At runtime, if I change the value in the edit control, I see from the log that the property is properly updated with that new value. But it seems that, when the InstallUISequence ends, the property is reset to its default value, which is annoying, because I cannot use the user sumitted value in a custom action part of the InstallExecuteSequence.
Here is an extract of the WXS script I use:
<UI>
<Dialog Id="select_list" Width="370" Height="270" Title="Select license and list files">
<Control Id="BannerBitmap" Type="Bitmap" X="0" Y="0" Width="370" Height="44" TabSkip="no" Text="UIBannerBmp" />
<Control Id="BannerLine" Type="Line" X="0" Y="45" Width="370" Height="0" />
<Control Id="BottomLine" Type="Line" X="0" Y="234" Width="370" Height="0" />
<Control Type="Edit" Id="list" Width="211" Height="15" X="128" Y="128" Property="pListFile" />
<Control Type="Text" Id="static_list" Width="78" Height="17" X="41" Y="154" Text="list file" />
<Control Type="PushButton" Id="next" Width="50" Height="17" X="232" Y="244" Text="Next >">
<Publish Event="EndDialog" Value="Return">1</Publish>
</Control>
<Control Type="PushButton" Id="cancel" Width="50" Height="17" X="296" Y="244" Text="Cancel">
<Publish Event="SpawnDialog" Value="CancelDlg">1</Publish>
</Control>
<Control Type="Text" Id="desc" Width="348" Height="16" X="8" Y="90"
Text="Please set the path of the the list file" />
</Dialog>
<InstallUISequence>
<Show Dialog="select_list" After="WelcomeEulaDlg">NOT installed</Show>
</InstallUISequence>
</UI>
<CustomAction Id="InstallService"
ExeCommand="[bin]prog.exe -f install.cl '[pListFile]'"
Execute="immediate"
Return="check"
Directory="bin" />
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="InstallService" After="InstallFinalize">REMOVE=""</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
<CustomActionRef Id="InstallService" />
<Property Id="pListFile" Value="c:\" />
I must not be on the right track to exchange information between the two sequences.
Is there a way to do that?
You need to mark the Property "Secure" for it to pass from the client-side (InstallUISequence) to server-side (InstallExecuteSequence). To do that you need to make the Property "public" (ALL CAPS) and secure. Something like so:
<Property Id="PLISTFILE" Secure="yes"/>
You don't need to give it a value unless you want something to show up by in your UI by default.