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WIX equivalent of a C# textbox?

I'm staring at this page wondering which control is a textbox. Seems like it should be obvious, but I don't see it.

http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/wix_xsd_control.htm

Also, is there a built-in "Browse" button to select a file from disk? Or do you have to code all that yourself?

Thanks,

Neal

Solution

  • I finally found the textbox (second one below). It was a matter of setting the Type="Edit".

    When I was looking at the web page mentioned, I was first looking only at "children" thinking that I would see a textbox there. 

    <Control Id="Description2" Type="Text" X="135" Y="140" Width="220" Height="20" Transparent="yes" 
    NoPrefix="yes"   Text="Full path to settingsFile:" />
<Control Id="UserSettingsFileName" Type="Edit"
    X="140" Y="150" Width="160" Height="80" Property="SettingsFilename"
    Text="C:\Path\SettingsFileGenerator.xml">

    The initial value of the edit/box was not set to the text I specified. Any ideas on that? Do I have to set the property value outside of the control?

    But if there is an reasonably easy-to-use "browse"/file-picker, I'd like to know about that too.