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" />
Related
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
The case is, I want to have a checkbox in a dialog. If the checkbox
is checked I want to create a file and do some other stuff.
I have a custom action which should using the value of the checkbox-property.
Now I try to pass the checkbox value to my CA-Method but it never receives a value,
the variable is present but always empty. I asume the checkbox variable itself
is not present at this point, because session.CustomActionData.ToString() shows:
INSTALLFOLDER=C:\Program Files (x86)\WixTesterSetup\;CHECKBOXProperty=
My Dialog is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi">
<Fragment>
<UI Id="UserRegDialogUI">
<Property Id="Proceed">proceedbtn</Property>
<Dialog Id="UserRegDialog" Width="400" Height="300" Title="Atled Service Konfiguration">
<Control Id="headerText" Type="Text" X="65" Y="10" Width="350" Height="40" Transparent="yes" Text="Something to Check" />
<Control Id="checkboxLabel" Type="Text" X="58" Y="150" Height="14" Width="141" Transparent="yes" Text="Checkbox Text" />
<Control Id="checkbox" Type="CheckBox" X="60" Y="165" Height="17" Width="120" Property="CHECKBOXProperty" CheckBoxValue="true" />
<Control Id="proceedButton" Type="PushButton" Text="Weiter" Height="20" Width="43" X="349" Y="266">
<Publish Event="EndDialog" Value="Return">1</Publish>
</Control>
<Control Id="cancelButton" Type="PushButton" Text="Beenden" Height="22" Width="50" X="293" Y="266" Cancel="yes">
<Publish Event="EndDialog" Value="Exit" />
</Control>
</Dialog>
</UI>
<InstallUISequence>
<Show Dialog="UserRegDialog" Before="ExecuteAction" />
</InstallUISequence>
</Fragment>
</Wix>
And Product.wsx contains:
<Binary Id="CustomActionBinary" SourceFile="$(var.RegistrationInfoCustomAction.TargetDir)$(var.RegistrationInfoCustomAction.TargetName).CA.dll"/>
<CustomAction Id="RegistrationInfoCustomAction" BinaryKey="CustomActionBinary" DllEntry="SaveUserInfo" Execute="deferred" Impersonate="no" />
<CustomAction Id="CustomAction51" Property="RegistrationInfoCustomAction" Value="INSTALLFOLDER=[INSTALLFOLDER];CHECKBOXProperty=[CHECKBOXProperty]" />
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="CustomAction51" Before='InstallFinalize' />
<Custom Action='RegistrationInfoCustomAction' After='CustomAction51'>NOT Installed</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
I tried to initialize set the property:
<Property Id="CHECKBOXProperty" Value="true" />
In that case it´s always true even if I uncheck the box.
I tried empty value (compiler says the property will be ignored)
May someone tell me a solution?
It looks like you're running your custom action with deferred context and I think this is what's causing your problems. Read through Obtaining Context Information for Deferred Execution Custom Actions. If you put your property in CustomActionData it should then be available.
I have a wix install file defined with a Property, IniFile inside a Component, and a custom dialog with a RadioButtonGroup that changes the value of said property. The property is used as a value for one of the IniFile's entries. Problem is it seems that IniFile value gets resolved prior to the property getting set via the radio buttons, as I always get the property's default value in my ini file. So my question is - how do I get it to resolve the IniFile's value (a property) later, after it's been altered.
Here's a rough outline of what I have:
<Property Id="SlpStatic" Value="STATIC" />
.
.
<Component Id="UpdateSlpStatic" Guid="aa8867b4-129c-42f3-85cc-06b588c29a40" Directory="TARGETDIR">
<CreateFolder />
<IniFile Id="IniSlpStatic" Action="addLine" Section="Overrides" Name="config.ini" Directory="INSTALLDIR" Key="type" Value="[SlpStatic]" />
</Component>
.
.
<Control Type="RadioButtonGroup" Property="SlpStatic" Id="SlpStaticChoice" Width="200" Height="42" X="112" Y="68">
<RadioButtonGroup Property="SlpStatic">
<RadioButton Text="SLP" Height="17" Value="SLP" Width="300" X="0" Y="0" />
<RadioButton Text="Static" Height="17" Value="STATIC" Width="200" X="0" Y="25" />
</RadioButtonGroup>
</Control>
I know that the SlpStatic property is getting set properly (I have another control that enables/disables based on its value), so the problem is that IniFile's value is getting resolved too early.
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 have an issue with Wix where an Edit control is not setting a property. I am using the property in a XmlFile node to modify an .xml file copied to the install location. The value of the property IS being correctly set in the file (the default value is being used) but I cannot seem to set the property with a value from the Edit control. This is driving me nuts.
<Fragment>
<Property Id="CUSTOMERNAMEPROPERTY" Value="Some default value" Secure="yes" />
<UI>
<Control Id="CustomerNameEdit" Type="Edit" X="120" Y="75" Width="220" Height="18" Property="CUSTOMERNAMEPROPERTY" Text="{80}" Indirect="yes" />
</UI>
</Fragment>
What is wrong with this?
Thanks
The Indirect attribute should be set to "no". Edit controls should reference their properties directly.
Also, make sure that you use a public property (only uppercase letters in its name). Private properties use their default values during install.
Try to declare your property inside <UI> element:
<Fragment>
<UI>
<Property Id="CUSTOMERNAMEPROPERTY" Value="Some default value" Secure="yes" />
<Control Id="CustomerNameEdit" Type="Edit" X="120" Y="75" Width="220" Height="18" Property="CUSTOMERNAMEPROPERTY" Text="{80}" Indirect="yes" />
</UI>
</Fragment>