Does anyone else have a method to install to a directory that isn't a
"named" directory?
Surely I can somehow set the path based on environment variable? Is
there a expand method within wix?
Thanks,
JEff
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Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 3:40 PM
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir
Here is the log entry:
MSI (c) (44:78) [13:58:30:775]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Modifying ALLUSERS
property. Its current value is '2'. Its new value: '1'.
From: Rob Mensching
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 3:39 PM
To: Jeff MacDuff; Dana Gutride; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir
What does your log file say the value for ALLUSERS is? If it isn't 1,
then you're not doing a per-machine install and you won't get the "All
Users" profile to install into.
From: Jeff MacDuff
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 15:26
To: Rob Mensching; Dana Gutride; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir
It should be per machine... is there a good way to tell?
From: Rob Mensching
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 3:24 PM
To: Jeff MacDuff; Dana Gutride; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir
Jeff, are you doing a per-machine or a per-user install?
From: Jeff MacDuff
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 15:14
To: Rob Mensching; Dana Gutride; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir
Looks like Windows SDK: KnownFolders.h has the list of folders.
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir
No I don't off the bat... but I know that users\public\pictures is one
of em J
I will send some offline email and see if I can dig it up... no
promises.
From: Rob Mensching
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 2:10 PM
To: Jeff MacDuff; Dana Gutride; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir
I've been considering the need to create a standard CustomAction to
process all the new standard directories on Vista. It sounds like we'll
need to do that. Jeff, do you have a pointer to the documentation that
points at all the new standard folders provided by the Vista shell?
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir
Ok that worked, I now see all the propertys.... However there is no
property set for c:\users\public.
So since there isn't a MSI property I can latch on too... is there
another method?
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Try specifying l*v instead of lv.
Dana
On 11/27/06, Jeff MacDuff <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
Ok I ran the verbose install like this:
msiexec /i foo.msi /lv foo.txt however I didn't see anything in the log
that shows all the propertys? I did look for the value (
c:\users\public) but it wasn't listed at all.
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My other idea: try a verbose install on vista (my vista vm isn't
running right now, or I'd try it for you). Take a look at the
properties at the end of the log, is the property you need in there
somewhere? You might be able to use it the same way.
Dana
On 11/27/06, Jeff MacDuff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The problem is that it's not in the list.
Users\public is new "common" directory introduced in Vista, it's there
on every install.. if my user name was joe I would also have users\joe
was well.
The pubic folder contains music / docs / etc that all users inherit .
Since it's not a "named" folder is there another way to expand the
variable?
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Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 12:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir
Jeff:
If it's in the following list, you can use it relatively easily.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/aa372057.aspx
The directory structure would look something like what is below (just
the beginning, you should be able to fill in the rest.
<Directory Id='TARGETDIR' Name='SourceDir'>
<Directory Id='ProgramFilesFolder' Name='PFiles'> <<<<-----------
this is the important part, change the id to match what you find in the
msdn link above.
Dana
On 11/27/06, Jeff MacDuff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Any help?
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Subject: [WiX-users] How to specify a envirorment variable dir
I need to install some sample content into the %public%\pictures folder
on the target machine but I am unsure how to do this.
How do I specify a environment variable path for a directory element?
Thanks,
Jeff
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