Chapter 6 - User Interface (Download Solution)

Excercise 6.1: Remove Dialogs

In this exercise you will remove the LicenseAgreementDlg and UserRegistrationDlg dialogs from your blastermaster.msi package.

First, delete the following two records from the Dialog table:

• LicenseAgreementDlg
• UserRegistrationDlg

When you do this, make sure all checkboxes in the dialog "Cascaded Deletion" are checked in order to remove all the controls from these dialogs.

The following record is not needed anymore in the ControlEvent table. Thus, delete it.

Next, modify the records that still refer to the removed dialogs in the ControlEvent table as follows: 

Finally remove the following property from the Property table:

• ShowUserRegistrationDlg

Excercise 6.2: Bitmap Controls

In this exercise you will modify the images displayed by Bitmap Controls of the WelcomeDlg dialog.

Therefore, stream the following two JPG images into the Binary table of your package.

Excercise 6.3: Add a checkbox to the ExitDialog

In this exercise you will add a checkbox to the ExitDialog that asks whether the user wants to start BlasterMaster once the installation has completed.

First, add the following record to the Control table.

Next, add the following new record to the Property table. 

Next, add the following new record to the CheckBox table.

As a first step, remove the "RunBlasterMasterCA" action from the InstallExecuteSequence table.

Once this is done, add the following records to the ControlEvent table.

Now, make the "Finish" button’s "EndDialog" event the last event in the order by setting its Ordering value to "999".

Excercise 6.4: Control Conditions

In this exercise you will add a Control Condition that allows the user to hide a checkbox in case of an Uninstall.

Thus, add the following record to the ControlCondition table.

Excercise 6.5: Text Styles

In this exercise you will move the text of the checkbox control to a property and change its font style.

First, change the value of the "Text" column of the Control table to "[ControlText_RunBMCheckbox]" as shown below.

Next, add the following new property to the Property table.

Next, add the following record to the TextStyle table.

Excercise 6.6: Transforms

In this exercise you will author the UIText table to change the time remaining text displayed during the installation.

In your blastermaster.msi click on "Transform" - "New Transform".

Save the new transform as blastermaster_de.mst into the same folder where your blastermaster.msi is located. Then go to the "Control" table and modify the "WelcomeDlg"’s "Title" control as follows:

Then save the file, leave all "Transform Properties" checkboxes unchecked and exit InstEd afterwards. A file named "blastermaster_de.mst" is now in the same folder as your blastermaster.msi. In order to apply the transform call your blastermaster.msi from a CMD using the following command:

msiexec /i blastermaster.msi TRANSFORMS=blastermaster_de.mst