Jimco Software Reviews - Wise for Windows Installer 6.1 Professional (continued)
Setup Editor
In addition to the panes we've looked at before, WFWI also provides a more advanced interface called the Setup Editor. This is where you'll go if you want to dig further into the workings of your package, including creating and editing dialogs for your installation.
Figure 11 shows the basic tools for building dialogs in WFWI. You can drag any of the tools from the Control dialog onto the WFWI dialog. By using the other options provided for editing dialogs (an example of which is shown in figure 12), you can set up conditions that control how dialogs behave, etc.
Figure 11 - Adding Controls to a Dialog
Figure 12 - Events for a Button Control How it Works
If you don't want to hassle with creating your own dialogs, WFWI offers several themes and allows you the ability to create your own themes. Themes are a great way to quickly and easily change the look of your installation package.
Figure 13 - Themes
MSI Script
For the really advanced installations, the MSI Script feature provides access to the Windows Installer script and also to a host of custom actions that you can perform. One that I have found most useful is the ability to make programmatic API calls into DLLs installed on the user's system. This feature (shown in figure 14) has allowed me to do things in my installations that would not have been possible otherwise.
Figure 14 - Calling a Function in a DLL on the user's computer.