Install features based on checkboxes

Question

I am trying to make it so that when the user selects something via check box, a corresponding feature will be installed.

I am aware of the prebuilt feature tree that Wix provides but there are some other things that I am doing that do not allow me to use this function. I am curious as to how to link the two together so that when the user selects the check box "Install Feature X", feature X is installed when the user clicks the install button.

Answer 1

I found what it was that solves my issue. To do as I had intended, I needed to create a checkbox for each feature as so.

<Control Id="FeatureX" Type="CheckBox" X="191" Y="50" Width="140" Height="17"
     Property="FEATUREX_CHECKED" CheckBoxValue="myValue" Text="Install feature X" />
<Control Id="FeatureY" Type="CheckBox" X="191" Y="67" Width="140" Height="17"
     Property="FEATUREY_CHECKED" CheckBoxValue="myValue" Text="Install feature Y" />
<Control Id="FeatureZ" Type="CheckBox" X="191" Y="84" Width="140" Height="17"
     Property="FEATUREZ_CHECKED" CheckBoxValue="myValue" Text="Install feature Z" />

Now once I did that I then added a corresponding publish to each, and made a condition that made it so that only if the check box is selected will that feature be installed. Like so:

<Control Id="Next" Type="PushButton" Text="Next" X="254" Y="243" Height="17" Width="56">
   <Publish Event="Remove" Value="ALL" Order="1">1</Publish>
   <Publish Event="AddLocal" Value="FeatureX" Order="2">
      <![CDATA[FEATUREX_CHECKED]]>
   </Publish>
</Control>

NOTE:

Remove is used to deselect everything from being installed (It was brought to my attention that once the UI is invoked, it is too late to change feature levels).

Then each feature is checked to see if the "corresponding checkbox" has been selected and if so adds it to the "AddLocal" Property. AddLocal would look like this if one were to look at it:

ADDLOCAL=FeatureX, FeatureY, FeatureZ...

The final thing I needed to do to get this to work was too check in my main.wxs to make sure that the FeatureID used in the checkboxes matched up with the ComponentGroupRefID used:

 <ComponentGroupRef Id="FeatureX"/>

So there it is... I again, thank everyone for their help with this. If anyone reading this is confused by anything, please feel free to drop me a line, and I will do my best to explain things a little bit further.