[WiX-users] Manual for wixcop

2006-10-03 Thread Jarl Friis
Hi. Are there any documentation for Wixcop? I don't fine the output of wixcop/? sufficient. What about the others? heat.exe lit.exe dark.exe setup.exe setupbld.exe ct.exe Jarl -- Jarl Friis Softace ApS Omøgade 8, 2.sal 2100 København Ø. Denmark Phone: +45 26 13 20 90 E-mail: [EMAIL

[WiX-users] Incorrect link on web

2006-10-03 Thread Jarl Friis
On http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/tools.htm The link to WiX on sourceForge is incorrect (it does not work). The fix is obvious. Jarl -- Jarl Friis Softace ApS Omøgade 8, 2.sal 2100 København Ø. Denmark Phone: +45 26 13 20 90 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] LinkedIn:

Re: [WiX-users] Tool for converting reg file to WiX content.

2006-10-03 Thread Jarl Friis
Bob Arnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jarl Friis wrote: Maybe, but it is not installed when installing the Wix3.msi (latest weekly build). Is that intentional? Tallow is a WiX v2 tool. Its replacement is Heat in WiX v3 but it doesn't currently support .reg translation. Thank you very

[WiX-users] Problem creating shortcut

2006-10-03 Thread Gilles Querret
[2nd try, first one never appeared on mailing list] Hi, I have a problem in my installer with creating shortcuts : basically, I need to create a shortcut where the executable isn't part of my installer and I just need to provide parameters. I retrieve the executable path using : Property

[WiX-users] Using a generated (by tallow.exe) fragment file in a component

2006-10-03 Thread Jarl Friis
Hi. I have started a versy small project (very close to SampleFirst.ZIP). However The build procedure is this: regasme.exe /regfile MyAssembly.dll generates a MyAssembly.reg file. The regfile is then processed by tallow.exe to produce a MyAssemblyRegistry.wxs file. I would like the registry

Re: [WiX-users] Wix V3 UI image substitution

2006-10-03 Thread Graham D. Ambrose
Thanks for the help Mike. I have a very pretty looking installer now. Is there any way to inspect what variables can be set with out looking through the source code? Graham From: Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 September 2006 17:33 To: Mike Dimmick; Graham

Re: [WiX-users] Using a generated (by tallow.exe) fragment file in acomponent

2006-10-03 Thread Mike Dimmick
Copy and paste into a .wxs file that describes your component, underneath the appropriate Component element. Tallow is not intended for use in automated build processes. You need to keep your GUIDs stable, so that you don't need to keep generating the .reg file. You can do this either using

Re: [WiX-users] Incorrect link on web

2006-10-03 Thread Mike Dimmick
All the links down the right-hand side are broken when you're browsing the Manual section. On the Manual index page itself, http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix2/wix_index.htm, all the links to other sites (WiX on SourceForge, Bug and Feature trackers, Rob and Justin's blogs) attempt to use

Re: [WiX-users] Problem creating shortcut

2006-10-03 Thread Mike Dimmick
The $ symbol is used in the Target attribute to find a component's path. You need to evaluate the value of the property, so your Target should be [PROWCINI_PATH]. References: Shortcut table: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/msi/setup/shortcut_table.asp Shortcut data type:

Re: [WiX-users] Wix V3 UI image substitution

2006-10-03 Thread Mike Dimmick
Right now, I don't think so. Look for "!(wix." in the .wxs files under src\ext\UIExtension\wixlib for other tunable variables in the UI. For 3.0.2015.0 this gives: Searching for: !(wix.Common.wxs(15): Binary Id="WixUI_Bmp_Banner" SourceFile="!(wix.WixUIBannerBmp=$(var.bannerBmp))"

[WiX-users] syncing many autogenerated files with wxs file

2006-10-03 Thread 9vgo31o02
Hello, My project generates documentation with doxygen and docflex for its library, which consists of a number of classes, resulting in a large number of HTML files, spread over a directory structure. As I don't want to add each file individually to the installer by hand, I wonder if

Re: [WiX-users] Using a generated (by tallow.exe) fragment file in acomponent

2006-10-03 Thread Jarl Friis
Hi Mike. Thanks for the detailed answer (though it seems to drift off-topic). Mike Dimmick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Copy and paste into a .wxs file that describes your component, underneath the appropriate Component element. Tallow is not intended for use in automated build processes. :-(

Re: [WiX-users] syncing many autogenerated files with wxs file

2006-10-03 Thread Neil Sleightholm
The tool Mallow should be able to help you (http://www.infozoom.de/download/Mallow.zip). This isn't part of WiX but you should be able to find the documentation and source for it with a bit of Googling. Neil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [WiX-users] Problem creating shortcut

2006-10-03 Thread Gilles Querret
Hi, Thanks for your answer. Changing to [PROWCINI_PATH] didn't work at first glance, so after deeper investigations, I found the value returned by RegistrySearch wasn't correct. Changing attribute Type to raw (and removing $ sign before PROWCINI_PATH ! ) gives me a correct result. So I now have a

[WiX-users] Error 1702

2006-10-03 Thread Stefan Pavlik
Hi list I went through the Windows Installer error texts and found out that some Errors are quite usefull. My question is: What should I do to rise such error? I know that I can create Custom Action type 19 but it will just display the text and exit the installation. For example: I need

Re: [WiX-users] syncing many autogenerated files with wxs file

2006-10-03 Thread Jarl Friis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, My project generates documentation with doxygen and docflex for its library, which consists of a number of classes, resulting in a large number of HTML files, spread over a directory structure. Could you use the itteration feature in the preprocessor:

Re: [WiX-users] Installing machine-specific license files

2006-10-03 Thread Arnette, Bill
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sigurd Stenersen Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 6:22 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installing machine-specific license files Arnette, Bill wrote: the [...]

[WiX-users] getting an error with the upgrade tag

2006-10-03 Thread Scott Sam
I added this upgrade tag, Upgrade Id={4A71B80F-7D47-4B37-B16B-E5A1C6C0C79C} UpgradeVersion OnlyDetect=no Property=NEWERFOUND IncludeMinimum=yes Minimum=2.5.0/ /Upgrade And I schedule RemoveExistingProducts with this Custom Action=RemoveExistingProducts

Re: [WiX-users] Error 1702

2006-10-03 Thread Stefan Pavlik
Hi I know how to do it. I just need to use the FroceReboot standard action. Anyway is there any way to find out what error messasage (error code) is used (trigered) by which action? (some kind of list...) Thanks Stefan Stefan Pavlik wrote: Hi list I went through the Windows Installer

Re: [WiX-users] Using a generated (by tallow.exe) fragment file in acomponent

2006-10-03 Thread Bob Arnson
Jarl Friis wrote: appropriate Component element). I have expected to be able to avoid that for the standard reasons: It's time consuming. It does not require intelligence. It's error prone; In half-a-year, when I actually do make an Problem is: It does require intelligence. See, for

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and remove

2006-10-03 Thread Bob Arnson
Calin Iaru wrote: It should be only Administration because the setup resets the level of all other features to 0 when Typical is selected like this: Feature Id=Utilities Title=Utilities Display=1 Level=1 AllowAdvertise=no Condition Level=0![CDATA[SETUPTYPE =

Re: [WiX-users] getting an error with the upgrade tag

2006-10-03 Thread Bob Arnson
Scott Sam wrote: And I schedule RemoveExistingProducts with this Custom Action=RemoveExistingProducts After=InstallValidate/ I'm still getting the unresolved reference to symbol CustomAction:RemoveExistingProducts in section Product. RemoveExistingProducts is a standard action, not a

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade and remove

2006-10-03 Thread Calin Iaru
Hi Bob, I have discovered a few hours ago that SetInstallLevel to 1 in an upgrade will actually refresh the Features and install only the features that I want. Your suggestion would help if the setup type had 3 options: Typical, Full, Custom. This setup has more levels and tuning

[WiX-users] Where to start? V2 or V3?

2006-10-03 Thread Adam D
Hello, I'm about to get started with WiX as a possible replacement for InstallShield. I would like to get a view on what I should start with - V2 or V3? I want to use Votive, and I quite like the idea of a MSBuild compliant project file, but I don't want to jump in using V3 if it has any

Re: [WiX-users] Where to start? V2 or V3?

2006-10-03 Thread Rob Mensching
This year? Stick to v2. I'm expecting there will be another bump or two in the next few months in v3 that I would not want you to go through. WiX v2 isn't as cool as WiX v3 but it will behave consistently... which is probably the most important thing for you in the next few months.

Re: [WiX-users] Where to start? V2 or V3?

2006-10-03 Thread Matthew Janulewicz
In my experience (and who's experience other than mine would I have?) v3 is stable enough to do most tasks that the average installer needs to do. Granted, most of our installers (currently in test/demo phase) copy files around, register stuff in the GAC, create a web page or a virtual directory

Re: [WiX-users] Where to start? V2 or V3?

2006-10-03 Thread Adam D
Thanks Rob and Matt, I think that gives me a better idea of where to go next - I'll probably start with V2, build a simple project, and then take a look at WixCop... with a view to moving to V3 as soon as we get a 'stable' build... I suspect that for this release, anything I do will be V2 based.