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[Adam]

i want our logo to pop up when they click on setup.exe

can anyone help
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[SteveP]

Have you tried putting up a non-modal dialog that displays at the beginning of the execution sequence?

[Adam]

no can you explain how to do this?

[SteveP]

There are a couple of options.

If you are running a setup.exe wrapper, you can deploy a form (e.g. a VB form) that simply sits there until you close the program.  If you don't display the form as VBModal or VBSystemModal, it will remain in the background.  Then you can keep the wrapper running until the MSI package completes.

If you want to put the display into the MSI package, then you can create a Dialog with whatever controls  you want to have on it ... typically a bitmap and some text ... size it appropriately, and initiate the display as the first thing in your InstallExecuteSequence.  Then add the decimal value 16 to the attributes of all your other dialogs (the setting keeps non-modal dialogs) so that they don't destroy the background.

There are some display challenges with the latter method that I have not completely worked out, but that will give you a starting point.

My method of doing this, by the way, is through direct manipulation of the MSI Dialog and Control tables.  I don't know how this works out with one of the third party packagers.