I was wondering if it's possible to alternate the SetupCompleteSuccess dialog for InstallShield based on certain conditions. As hyperlinks on dialogs only work with MSI version 5.00 and above, I have the following conditions set on SetupCompleteSuccess and SetupCompleteSuccessWithLink
VersionMsi >= "5.00"
and
VersionMsi < "5.00"
The problem I'm facing is that SetupCompleteSuccess appears to have a special sequence order of -1 so I'm stuck.
Thanks
Unfortunately Windows Installer doesn't make this trivial with how their hyperlink control works. This interaction in particular is a bad one.
Here's one approach I suspect would work, but haven't had a chance to try out. In sequence -1, instead of putting the name of a Dialog, put the name of a custom action that chooses between your two alternatives, and invokes the selected one with MsiDoAction or equivalent.
You could use a custom action to emit temporary data into the InstallUISequence table to redirect which dialog is -1 based on VersionMSI.
Personally, I'm of the opinion that people don't really read the dialogs in an installer anyways so I rarely ask questions or tell important information. I'd move the "view website" type requirement to the first run of the application itself.
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(Questions with an answer of NO are still useful; they're just not the solution to the problem. Answers say, no, there is no built-in, you have to implement the dialog for yourself...)
In VBA, (ms-word, or ms-excel, but seems like a generic operation) is there any way to simply a provide a collection to a built in dialog in order to prompt the user to select a value from a list of values?
I can't believe there's not a built in method to do this, it seems like a such a generic operation that could be coded once and everybody would re-use it. I can certainly hand code it, but why bother if it's already in the vba libraries someplace.
I've searched for a solution, but it does appear that the standard answer is to hand code it.
My aproach would be to create a Form, add a ListBox, Ok, Cancel and the ShowModal property.
To use it first set the ListBox RowSource according to what you need:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff196460.aspx
Then make it visible, manage Ok/Cancel and then use the ItemsSelect property (multiselect is possible):
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff823015.aspx
Yup, no such thing.
Hand-code it, and keep it as part of your VBA "toolbox" - make yourself an add-in that other VBA projects can reference, so you can reuse the code without having to rewrite it every time.
Then export the code modules from your host document, upload them to a GitHub repository, and share your solution with the world so the next person looking for it doesn't need to implement it from scratch again.
The VBA standard library is rather limited, and beyond MsgBox there isn't much available in terms of built-in UI. That's just how it is.
Can anyone help me with this here codedui? I can't seem to find the option to choose when doing a recording on what properties for the object map to use. like for example,
when I do a recording for a calculator or "Something" and do an action/a click on "button 1" It just directly gets all the properties like, ID, name, classname etc. for that single object.
So, my question would be is there any possible settings when recording that I could tick like just use a couple of the properties not all? (ie. ID)
BTW, I'm using VS2010 ultimate.
Cheers,
Kerwin
UIMap editor that comes with feature pack 2 is the best solution for editing seacrh/filter properties of the control.
I have been working on something similar but haven't come up with a really good solution there are a few options but none of them are particularly user friendly or intuitive. You can hook the UIMap save function and prevent it from recording unwanted properties, note that this can make your tests brittle less properties generally means more failed searches. The UIMap is made by an XML file and you can parse and edit it directly. If you only have a few properties to get rid of you can use the UIMap editor that comes with feature pack 2.
I am creating a menu with the linux utility dialog (see below) and I have heard that it is possible to make a tree-like structure for those checklists. However I cannot find any type in the manpage that creates such a thing? Is it really possible - and if yes: how?
See http://i51.tinypic.com/2ir9qfl.png vs http://i56.tinypic.com/35jasmh.png for how it actually looks like and how it should look like. The original pic was created using dialog --checklist.
First and foremost thank you for the answerz. However the ambiguity of the word 'dialog' and the lack of a correct side by side comparison (couldn't double-check as I was unexpectedly hurried - sorry) made the question difficult to understand.
Hope this helps:
How it looks like: http://i51.tinypic.com/2ir9qfl.png
How it should look like: http://i56.tinypic.com/35jasmh.png
I still want to use the 'dialog' utility - I just want a tree-like view that shows that allows to group some items for better overview. It should be the front-end for a rather complex script that can checkout, compile, fetch and do some other fancy stuff, and the person who wanted me to do this script said that he is sure a tree-like view in dialog is possible as he had seen it before, could however not supply me with the necessary code.
You cannot use the Linux dialog utility to do a single page checklist hierarchy
Instead, create a series of menus to achieve the same semantic structure, far from optimal though, I'll grant you.
The other option is to write a script (in perl/python/ruby perhaps) which uses the ncurses/curses library to build this section of the UI. See here (python example) to help you get started.
Note.
The person who said they had seen a tree like view composed in dialog has either...
Seen it done with a patched/non-standard version of dialog which may exist. (?!)
Saw a custom made ncurses/curses app that provided a similar UI to dialog, hence the confusion.
For more info on ncurses/curses see http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/
The sample you posted will be difficult to match in formatting, but bash/ksh/zsh all support the select construct, which builds a menu and allows you to process the results of the selection.
PS3="Choose an option "
select opt in start mid end quit
do
case $opt in
start) echo "starting";;
mid) echo "Standing by";;
end) echo "Standing by";;
quit) break;;
esac
done
Example run
1) start
2) mid
3) end
4) quit
Choose an option
1
starting
4
# prompt >
Depending on your requirments, you may need to wrap this a continuous loop, i.e.
while true ; do
select ...
done
I don't think it will be possible to center the question tree as your example.
I hope this helps.
P.S. as you appear to be a new user, if you get an answer that helps you please remember to mark it as accepted, and/or give it a + (or -) as a useful answer.
HI all,
I am creating a timesheep app and I have five colums that can contain hours worked. When the user enters a new form how do I check to see if at least one of the columns contains data. I must admit I am not a developer just a Sharepoint/Sharepoint designer hack so be nice. Thanks
Glenn Thibeault
The only bullet-proof way would be to create a SharePoint event receiver using C# (lots of examples on the web).
I'm not really sure how you could accomplish this with SPD.
If you don't want to write any C# code, that really only leaves JavaScript. It will still take development work (this is a programming site after all). You could probably take advantage of SPUtility.js (full disclosure, this is a library I maintain).
The basic steps would be:
Edit your NewForm.aspx and add a Content Editor web part
Inside the Content Editor web part, write your JavaScript:
Attach a new onClick handler to the NewForm.aspx's "OK" buttons
Use SPUtility's GetValue method to get the value of your 5 fields, validate one has a value, and display a message if invalid
I inherited an very old application that I am in the process of updating it (I know, we should have rewrote it in VS 2008, but we purchased a company, which is how I was stuck with the relic). Using UpdateData(TRUE) to retrieve the changes made in the dialog controls, nothing is being updated. I have an edit control, with an integer variable, and an edit control with a string variable, assigned using the class wizard. Upon pressing the OK button, the UpdateData(TRUE) is executed to retrieve the new values from the disalog.
I seem to remember having a similar problem back when VS C++ 6.0 first came out, but have not used it since VS 2003 and C# became prevalent.
Thanks for any help in advance!
Bill
Check the DoDataExchange() method. It should have the logic for writing data to or reading it from the controls. If the programmers used the default implementastion, then there will be a DDX_... macro for each control that is being read/written. Just look at any other MFC dialogs (in your code or google) to see how the DDX commands should be written if they are missing.
Alternatively, if it's only 1 or 2 values you can easily just get the control and read it directly if you don't mind doing validation etc yourself. Get the ID of the control from the form designer and use something along the lines of:
CEditWnd *pWnd = GetDlgItem(ID_THECONTROL);
CString newValue = pWnd->GetWindowText();
...
You'll need to look at the content of the DoDataExchange method and see what it is doing. There is not sufficient information here to tell what could be going wrong other than that.