9 replies to this topic

[fzgny5]

According to InstallShield, in a basic MSI project an uninstall will not properly rollback if the user cancels the uninstall after 'File Transfer'. In particular (in my case) it has deleted services but does not add them back in. In fact the services are left in some limbo state. Given this fact I wish to either hide or disable the Cancel button during an uninstall only. I have tried numerous variations of conditions and modifying the Control tables in the Direct Editor to no avail. No matter what I do, the Cancel button is only disabled during the final pass through (there are 3 passes - the first appears to just generate the script and the second two appear to modify the system). Any thoughts are appreciated.

[Stefan Krueger]

How are you disabling that button? What condition are you using?

[installer_wow]

Hi Stefan,

I am facing the same problem.
I don't want the user to cancel the uninstall once it has started.
I am using Wise for Windows Installer and can't find how to modify that dialog that appears when Remove is clicked from ARP.

How do I disable it???

Thanks in advance,
Akshay.

[cooki]

To hide the Cancel Button, you can place a CA of type "MSI dll" in the execute sequence and put in it:
PMSIHANDLE hRecord = MsiCreateRecord(2);
MsiRecordSetInteger(hRecord,1,2);
MsiRecordSetInteger(hRecord,2,0);
MsiProcessMessage(hInstall,INSTALLMESSAGE_COMMONDATA,hrecord);

[NeoTheOne]

Hi

Just a suggestion, why not just use the /QB+! or /QB-! switch during the uninstall.
So now the user will get only a progress bar dialog and no cancel button.

Neo

[Stefan Krueger]

Neo: I don't think that's possible when the uninstall is launched via the Remove button in ARP.

[ManojAryan]

Hi all,

I am new member of this forum.... I have a doubt regarding the same topic.
I am working on Installscript MSI project. I wanted to disable Cancel button on progressbar dialog during installation n uninstallation. So i edited the STATUSEX Dialog n disabled cancel button. It served the purpose but the size of STATUSEX dialog gets bigger. I didnt understand how? Can anyone help me out here?

-Aryan

[dtasanas]

i too am trying to disable the cancel button in the uninstall dialog. i was able to remove it during the install progress but the uninstall progress seems to be an automatic dialog generated by windows installer.

can someone tell me where to uninstall progress dialog is called from? if i knew that then i could interrupt with my own progress dialog.

by the way... i'm working in WIX but any solution would be helpful. i'll just translate it into WIX.

[dtasanas]

[chenggj]

hi，Stefan，

 

I'm now in the same problem, so does this problem has been resolved?

If has been resolved, could you share the solution to me?

 

Thanks!