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WiX 3.6: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML

You're reading from   WiX 3.6: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML An all-in-one introduction to Windows Installer XML from the installer and beyond

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782160427
Length 488 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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WiX 3.6: A Developer's Guide to Windows Installer XML
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Files and Directories 3. Putting Properties and AppSearch to Work 4. Improving Control with Launch Conditions and Installed States 5. Understanding the Installation Sequence 6. Adding a User Interface 7. Using UI Controls 8. Tapping into Control Events 9. Working from the Command Line 10. Accessing the Windows Registry 11. Controlling Windows Services 12. Localizing Your Installer 13. Upgrading and Patching 14. Extending WiX 15. Bootstrapping Prerequisites with Burn 16. Customizing the Burn UI Index

Publishing control events


To trigger an event, nests a Publish element inside a Control element. The Event attribute identifies the action that you want to publish and the Value attribute sets the required argument for that action. For example, to cause a PushButton control to open a new modal window, add a Publish element inside it that specifies the SpawnDialog event with Value set to the name of the dialog to open, as in the following snippet:

<Control Id="ShowPopupButton"
         Type="PushButton"
         Text="Show Popup"
         Height="17"
         Width="56"
         X="245"
         Y="243"
         Default="yes">
<Publish Event="SpawnDialog"
           Value="PopupDlg" />
</Control>

You'll find that different events require different arguments in the Value attribute. Here, Value takes the ID of the Dialog element you want to open. Also, only certain events can be published by certain controls. The following table lists the events that can be published and which...

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