[WiX-users] How to install a printer?
Hello, we built a installer for a software which relies on FreePDF XP and a specifically created FreePDF XP-printer with settings to start our software after creating a PDF. At the moment we provide an installation guide and the needed configuration file for the FreePDF printer and the user has to make the needed changes. Of course we woo like to add this functionality to our software installer. Is WiX able to install printers with a special name and a special driver? What would be the best approach to do so? I didn't find a printer-tag or stuff like that, but Difxapp Extension seems to handle driver installation in general. Can this be used for printers, too? Or is the only way some kind of custom actions with using command line tools, VBScripts or helper programs? Thanks for showing me any direction. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Thorsten Schöning -- Thorsten Schöning AM-SoFT IT-Systeme - Hameln | Potsdam | Leipzig Telefon: Potsdam: 0331-743881-0 E-Mail: tschoen...@am-soft.de Web: http://www.am-soft.de AM-SoFT GmbH IT-Systeme, Konsumhof 1-5, 14482 Potsdam Amtsgericht Potsdam HRB 21278 P, Geschäftsführer: Andreas Muchow -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How to install a printer?
Hi, Yes, you can install printer drivers and we've done it through C++ Custom Actions (not my choice, the code was there) although I recommend you use difx driver extensions as a printer driver is just another driver. One thing that is a right pain is driver signing so make sure you get signed drivers if you can (signed by the quality labs @ MS) as this will prevent nasty popup boxes with warnings. Difx is an MSI technology from what I understand and the WiX stuff is just a layer over that so the best source of data on this will be MSDN. Oh yes, don't use VBScripts unless you are in a controlled environment as we still have some of those left in our build and they cause problems. Regards Ryan -Original Message- From: Thorsten Schöning [mailto:tschoen...@am-soft.de] Sent: 03 February 2010 07:28 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to install a printer? Hello, we built a installer for a software which relies on FreePDF XP and a specifically created FreePDF XP-printer with settings to start our software after creating a PDF. At the moment we provide an installation guide and the needed configuration file for the FreePDF printer and the user has to make the needed changes. Of course we woo like to add this functionality to our software installer. Is WiX able to install printers with a special name and a special driver? What would be the best approach to do so? I didn't find a printer-tag or stuff like that, but Difxapp Extension seems to handle driver installation in general. Can this be used for printers, too? Or is the only way some kind of custom actions with using command line tools, VBScripts or helper programs? Thanks for showing me any direction. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Thorsten Schöning -- Thorsten Schöning AM-SoFT IT-Systeme - Hameln | Potsdam | Leipzig Telefon: Potsdam: 0331-743881-0 E-Mail: tschoen...@am-soft.de Web: http://www.am-soft.de AM-SoFT GmbH IT-Systeme, Konsumhof 1-5, 14482 Potsdam Amtsgericht Potsdam HRB 21278 P, Geschäftsführer: Andreas Muchow -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How to install a printer?
Guten Tag Ryan O'Neill, am Mittwoch, 3. Februar 2010 um 09:12 schrieben Sie: One thing that is a right pain is driver signing so make sure you get signed drivers if you can (signed by the quality labs @ MS) as this will prevent nasty popup boxes with warnings. We would need to install a standard Windows-driver for Apple XY to get FreePDF working, so we can't influence this one, I think. Difx is an MSI technology from what I understand and the WiX stuff is just a layer over that so the best source of data on this will be MSDN. Thanks, than I will have a look at Difx and Co. Oh yes, don't use VBScripts unless you are in a controlled environment as we still have some of those left in our build and they cause problems. I don't want to burn my fingers, too. ;-) Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Thorsten Schöning -- Thorsten Schöning AM-SoFT IT-Systeme - Hameln | Potsdam | Leipzig Telefon: Potsdam: 0331-743881-0 E-Mail: tschoen...@am-soft.de Web: http://www.am-soft.de AM-SoFT GmbH IT-Systeme, Konsumhof 1-5, 14482 Potsdam Amtsgericht Potsdam HRB 21278 P, Geschäftsführer: Andreas Muchow -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Refresh Edit Box Control
Hi, Is there any way to refresh the Edit box control, so as to set text from a custom action and avoid another identical dialog box. Thanks Bibhash Phukon. -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] How to rename an existing file after installation (major upgrade)?
When my application runs for the 1st time, it creates a file named devcie.txt under the installation folder. Since the file name is a typo (should be device.txt), I want to provide a higher version .msi to perform a major upgrade and rename the file during the installation. My code is like: Property Id=QtExecCmdLine Value=rename quot;C:\Program Files\MyApp\Devcie.txtquot; Device.txt / CustomAction Id=QtExecExample BinaryKey=WixCA DllEntry=CAQuietExec Execute=immediate Return=check/ . . . InstallExecuteSequence Custom Action=QtExecExample After=InstallFinalize/ /InstallExecuteSequence But it doesn't work. The error logs: CAQuietExec: Command string must begin with quoted application name. CAQuietExec: Error 0x80070057: invalid command line property value CAQuietExec: Error 0x80070057: failed to get Command Line Look forward your help. Thanks a lot. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/How-to-rename-an-existing-file-after-installation-major-upgrade-tp4506348p4506348.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] First user impressions and questions
Hi everybody, i just joined my first mailing list of my life, so please be patient and understand that sometimes i may look rude just because i don't know how to behave in there. In primis, I'm not a programmer in the strict terms, so i'm not really used to use tools similar to wix, but starting from some well done tutorial and example i managed to make my first game installer in a pair of days, mostry thanks to the quite straightforward structure of Wix. I'm using Wix with sharp-develop and a user made dll to check for .net installation version, xna framework, directx and then to install the game files. The main problem here is that the current project is actually able to compress the Xna fw and DirectX redist inside the msi file, while the .net installer is only checked and then linked. I would like to have the .Net installer included in the msi package so that a user can download and install everything in a single step. Since i am not a good programmer after-all, i was thinking of including the .net installer as a game-file, then somehow run it before the game starts, but the xna installer won't install itself, prompting the user to download the .net then retry. So i urge to know how can i add the .net installer executable to the msi file, run it at the start of the installing procedure, wait for it to do its job, then progress with the installation of the game. _ Hotmail: posta elettronica con funzioni avanzate e gratuita, con la protezione Microsoft. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969 -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Some questions regarding shared components, custom actions and properties
Hi all, I'm trying to code an installer for my applications and the framework they use and since I reuse the framework a lot, I'd like to concoct a wixlib with all the necessary pieces So far, I managed to structure a single wxs which seems to do the job, but I'm stumbling on some problems. I want to deploy the framework and the supporting libs once, so I created a hierarchy under CommonFIlesFolder: Directory Id=CommonFilesFolder Name=CFiles Directory Id=QtCommonDir Name=Qt4 Directory Id=Qt4Dir Name=gcc4 Directory Id=Qt4Bin Name=bin Component Id=QtCore4.dll Guid=D842C046-04F7-4EFB-AC83-BE2ADB20FCA2 File Id=QtCore4.dll Name=QtCore4.dll Source=..\..\..\Qt\2010.01\qt\bin\QtCore4.dll DefaultLanguage=0 / /Component /Directory Directory Id=Qt4Libs Name=lib Component Id=mingwm10.dll Guid=F732AB20-7554-44E6-9A1B-3547CF809B6D File Id=mingwm10.dll Name=mingwm10.dll Source=..\..\..\Qt\2010.01\qt\bin\mingwm10.dll / /Component Component Id=libgcc_s_dw2_1.dll Guid=17235686-4DDC-40CA-9D54-4483BA19F26B File Id=libgcc_s_dw2_1.dll Name=libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll Source=..\..\..\Qt\2010.01\qt\bin\libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll / /Component /Directory Directory Id=Qt4Plugins Name=plugins /Directory Component Id=QtDir Guid=B09DC47D-C5AE-4614-8D6A-437227391ADB IniFile Id=qt.conf Action=createLine Key=Prefix Name=qt.conf Section=Paths Value=[$QtDir] Directory=INSTALLDIR / CreateFolder / /Component /Directory /Directory /Directory The components under this tree will be shared by all my apps, installed under ProgramFilesFolder: Directory Id=ProgramFilesFolder Name=PFiles Directory Id=VendorDir Name=$(var.VendorName) Directory Id=INSTALLDIR Name=$(var.ProductName) Component Id=Placeholder Guid=306202B5-2936-4513-AD1E-42C6230AB8CA File Id=README Name=README Source=..\..\..\Qt\2010.01\qt\README / /Component Component Id=application Guid=A4301F50-DCD7-417E-B67A-C3DDB4DD80D6 File Id=QtInfo.exe Name=QtInfo.exe Source=..\..\QtInfo\release\QtInfo.exe KeyPath=yes / RegistryKey Action=createAndRemoveOnUninstall Id=AppPaths Key=Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\$(var.Executable) Root=HKLM RegistryValue Action=write Id=default Type=string Value=[#QtInfo.exe] / RegistryValue Action=write Name=Path Type=string Value=[$application];[$QtDir]bin;[$QtDir]lib / /RegistryKey /Component /Directory /Directory /Directory First problem: To specify the application paths, under the application component, I refer to the QtDir component, soliciting an ICE69 warning and I'm not sure how to avoid it or if I can live with it, since docs say that [$component] may evaluate to null in certain circumstances. I tried using properties, but I'm failing to understand fully the mechanism. Second problem: I'm not sure where to put the qt.conf IniFile. Currently, I have it under a shared component, but I'm not sure if I'm violating the component rules since the ini file gets created in a different path for each Product Third problem: The qt.conf is *almost* an ini file, but values are C-style escaped strings, so backslashes must be repeated. I'd like to create a custom action to produce the qt.conf file, but I'm not sure, after reading the docs, where to put it in terms of execute sequence and how to access the relevant informations (component paths and such). What would be an appropriate course of action in these circumstances? Am I trying a too complex project, given my level (un)familiarity with MSI? Any help appreciated, --alex -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] adding arbitrary files to Wix solution
Hi, I have a deployment mechanism which uses an XML file to deploy .MSI files. I want to add the file to the WIX solution only for the sake of copying it to the project Out folder (I won't use it in the WIX itself). How can I achieve such behavior - when I add files to the project, the don't have the copy to output folder option. Eran -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Custom Action Condition Question
Hello folks, This is my first post here, so please let me know if I'm violating any sort of protocol. I have a WiX installer that has per-feature custom actions that need to be executed on uninstall. Right now I'm running into a problem where the actions execute whether or not the feature was actually installed by the user. The custom actions fail because they expect certain resources that are installed as part of the feature to exist. If they haven't been installed, the entire install is stuck in a broken state. Unfortunately, I can't *not* run these custom actions due to legacy constraints of the application that I'm wrapping. What is the correct way to run a custom action if and only if its related feature is being uninstalled? I have included the snippet that I'm currently using below, if it helps. Custom Action=LaunchUninstallCustomAction Before=RemoveFiles![CDATA[(NOT UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE) AND (REMOVE=ALL) AND (FeatureName=2)]]/Custom -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How to rename an existing file after installation(major upgrade)?
Have you considered an option to put this responsibility on the application, not installation? As you mentioned, the file is not installed, but is created by the application, so the misprint is rather a bug of application... -- Yan -Original Message- From: Nicole Zheng [mailto:nicole.zheng...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 12:06 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to rename an existing file after installation(major upgrade)? When my application runs for the 1st time, it creates a file named devcie.txt under the installation folder. Since the file name is a typo (should be device.txt), I want to provide a higher version .msi to perform a major upgrade and rename the file during the installation. My code is like: Property Id=QtExecCmdLine Value=rename quot;C:\Program Files\MyApp\Devcie.txtquot; Device.txt / CustomAction Id=QtExecExample BinaryKey=WixCA DllEntry=CAQuietExec Execute=immediate Return=check/ . . . InstallExecuteSequence Custom Action=QtExecExample After=InstallFinalize/ /InstallExecuteSequence But it doesn't work. The error logs: CAQuietExec: Command string must begin with quoted application name. CAQuietExec: Error 0x80070057: invalid command line property value CAQuietExec: Error 0x80070057: failed to get Command Line Look forward your help. Thanks a lot. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/How-to-rename-an-existing-file-after-installation-m ajor-upgrade-tp4506348p4506348.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Storing variale value after installation
Unfortunately that usually requires a custom action. Are you reading a file path or something else? -Original Message- From: vunder [mailto:vun...@bk.ru] Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 11:09 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Storing variale value after installation Thanks, it works! Next question: after reading value from registry, can I remove some symbols? In my case I need to remove quotes from string Property Id=SAVE_POSTNAME Secure=yes RegistrySearch Id=FindSavedPostName Root=HKCU Key=Software\DFPost\DFPost40\[CONFIG_NAME]\Modules\PostManager:tPostManager Name=UserName Type=raw/ /Property SetProperty Id=POST_NAME Value=[SAVE_POSTNAME] After=AppSearch/ -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Storing-variale-value-after-installation-tp4500806p4505 838.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Do not remove some files on major upgrade
Check the component rules. Are your files in both packages? Are the files in the same components in both packages? Did the components' guids change? Where is the RemoveExistingProducts action sequenced? What does the verbose log say about the components those files are in? -Original Message- From: vunder [mailto:vun...@bk.ru] Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 11:32 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Do not remove some files on major upgrade When application is upgrading some files must be updated and some of them not. But at upgrade all files are deleting. What condition I must define to Component/File to save it on major upgrade? -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Do-not-remove-some-files-on-major-upgrade-tp4505876p450 5876.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] First user impressions and questions
The .NET installers can't be reliably installed from inside of another MSI installer (they use MSI packages internally) since Windows Installer doesn't support nested installations very well, so you will need some sort of bootstrapper to install the .NET and the DirectX. Burn isn't quite there yet, but it is getting much closer. Several other alternatives have been mentioned in this list (search the archives for bootstrapper). -Original Message- From: Matteo Nicolotti [mailto:eversor...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 3:19 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] First user impressions and questions Hi everybody, i just joined my first mailing list of my life, so please be patient and understand that sometimes i may look rude just because i don't know how to behave in there. In primis, I'm not a programmer in the strict terms, so i'm not really used to use tools similar to wix, but starting from some well done tutorial and example i managed to make my first game installer in a pair of days, mostry thanks to the quite straightforward structure of Wix. I'm using Wix with sharp-develop and a user made dll to check for .net installation version, xna framework, directx and then to install the game files. The main problem here is that the current project is actually able to compress the Xna fw and DirectX redist inside the msi file, while the .net installer is only checked and then linked. I would like to have the .Net installer included in the msi package so that a user can download and install everything in a single step. Since i am not a good programmer after-all, i was thinking of including the .net installer as a game-file, then somehow run it before the game starts, but the xna installer won't install itself, prompting the user to download the .net then retry. So i urge to know how can i add the .net installer executable to the msi file, run it at the start of the installing procedure, wait for it to do its job, then progress with the installation of the game. _ Hotmail: posta elettronica con funzioni avanzate e gratuita, con la protezione Microsoft. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969 -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Some questions regarding shared components, custom actions and properties
First problem: As near as I can tell from your source code, the QtDir component is in the Directory Id=Qt4Dir Name=gcc4 directory. You could use [QtDir] instead of [$QtDir] (referring to the Id of the directory instead of the directory of the component) because directory Ids become properties where the values are the full directory paths (ending in a backslash (\) character). Second problem: If you need separate qt.conf files in each product's installation directory, they should live in a component under that product's installation directory instead of being shared. Third problem: You could sequence them right before/after the RemoveIniValues and WriteIniValues standard actions. Remember that your custom actions need to be deferred. -Original Message- From: Alessandro Morelli [mailto:atanva...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 3:35 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Some questions regarding shared components, custom actions and properties Hi all, I'm trying to code an installer for my applications and the framework they use and since I reuse the framework a lot, I'd like to concoct a wixlib with all the necessary pieces So far, I managed to structure a single wxs which seems to do the job, but I'm stumbling on some problems. I want to deploy the framework and the supporting libs once, so I created a hierarchy under CommonFIlesFolder: Directory Id=CommonFilesFolder Name=CFiles Directory Id=QtCommonDir Name=Qt4 Directory Id=Qt4Dir Name=gcc4 Directory Id=Qt4Bin Name=bin Component Id=QtCore4.dll Guid=D842C046-04F7-4EFB-AC83-BE2ADB20FCA2 File Id=QtCore4.dll Name=QtCore4.dll Source=..\..\..\Qt\2010.01\qt\bin\QtCore4.dll DefaultLanguage=0 / /Component /Directory Directory Id=Qt4Libs Name=lib Component Id=mingwm10.dll Guid=F732AB20-7554-44E6-9A1B-3547CF809B6D File Id=mingwm10.dll Name=mingwm10.dll Source=..\..\..\Qt\2010.01\qt\bin\mingwm10.dll / /Component Component Id=libgcc_s_dw2_1.dll Guid=17235686-4DDC-40CA-9D54-4483BA19F26B File Id=libgcc_s_dw2_1.dll Name=libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll Source=..\..\..\Qt\2010.01\qt\bin\libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll / /Component /Directory Directory Id=Qt4Plugins Name=plugins /Directory Component Id=QtDir Guid=B09DC47D-C5AE-4614-8D6A-437227391ADB IniFile Id=qt.conf Action=createLine Key=Prefix Name=qt.conf Section=Paths Value=[$QtDir] Directory=INSTALLDIR / CreateFolder / /Component /Directory /Directory /Directory The components under this tree will be shared by all my apps, installed under ProgramFilesFolder: Directory Id=ProgramFilesFolder Name=PFiles Directory Id=VendorDir Name=$(var.VendorName) Directory Id=INSTALLDIR Name=$(var.ProductName) Component Id=Placeholder Guid=306202B5-2936-4513-AD1E-42C6230AB8CA File Id=README Name=README Source=..\..\..\Qt\2010.01\qt\README / /Component Component Id=application Guid=A4301F50-DCD7-417E-B67A-C3DDB4DD80D6 File Id=QtInfo.exe Name=QtInfo.exe Source=..\..\QtInfo\release\QtInfo.exe KeyPath=yes / RegistryKey Action=createAndRemoveOnUninstall Id=AppPaths Key=Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\$(var.Executable) Root=HKLM RegistryValue Action=write Id=default Type=string Value=[#QtInfo.exe] / RegistryValue Action=write Name=Path Type=string Value=[$application];[$QtDir]bin;[$QtDir]lib / /RegistryKey /Component /Directory /Directory /Directory First problem: To specify the application paths, under the application component, I refer to the QtDir component, soliciting an ICE69 warning and I'm not sure how to avoid it or if I can live with it, since docs say that [$component] may evaluate to null in certain circumstances. I tried using properties, but I'm failing to understand fully the mechanism. Second problem: I'm not sure where to put the qt.conf IniFile. Currently, I have it under a shared component, but I'm not sure if I'm violating the component rules since the ini file gets created in a different path for each Product Third problem: The qt.conf is *almost* an ini file, but values are C-style escaped strings, so backslashes must be repeated. I'd like to create a custom action to produce the qt.conf file, but I'm not sure, after reading the docs, where to put it in terms of execute sequence and how to access the relevant informations (component paths and such). What would be an appropriate course of action in these circumstances? Am I trying a too complex project, given my level (un)familiarity with MSI? Any help appreciated, --alex -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Re: [WiX-users] adding arbitrary files to Wix solution
WiX 3.5 has a LayoutDirectory\LayoutFile mechanism for that. In 2.0/3.0 you will need to do that in your build environment instead of in WiX. -Original Message- From: Eran Shamir [mailto:eran...@microsoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 6:30 AM To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] adding arbitrary files to Wix solution Hi, I have a deployment mechanism which uses an XML file to deploy .MSI files. I want to add the file to the WIX solution only for the sake of copying it to the project Out folder (I won't use it in the WIX itself). How can I achieve such behavior - when I add files to the project, the don't have the copy to output folder option. Eran -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] First user impressions and questions
I believe this is what you are suggesting. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368010%28VS.85%29.aspx As the document says, this is a deprecated feature and should not be used. Instead, you need to use a bootstrapper to call the required installers one at a time. -Original Message- From: Matteo Nicolotti [mailto:eversor...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 06:19 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] First user impressions and questions Hi everybody, i just joined my first mailing list of my life, so please be patient and understand that sometimes i may look rude just because i don't know how to behave in there. In primis, I'm not a programmer in the strict terms, so i'm not really used to use tools similar to wix, but starting from some well done tutorial and example i managed to make my first game installer in a pair of days, mostry thanks to the quite straightforward structure of Wix. I'm using Wix with sharp-develop and a user made dll to check for .net installation version, xna framework, directx and then to install the game files. The main problem here is that the current project is actually able to compress the Xna fw and DirectX redist inside the msi file, while the .net installer is only checked and then linked. I would like to have the .Net installer included in the msi package so that a user can download and install everything in a single step. Since i am not a good programmer after-all, i was thinking of including the .net installer as a game-file, then somehow run it before the game starts, but the xna installer won't install itself, prompting the user to download the .net then retry. So i urge to know how can i add the .net installer executable to the msi file, run it at the start of the installing procedure, wait for it to do its job, then progress with the installation of the game. _ Hotmail: posta elettronica con funzioni avanzate e gratuita, con la protezione Microsoft. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969 -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Set a property value based on checkbox state
I must be missing something obvious but I do not seem to find an answer to this simple question. I need to set a property value to 1 if checkbox is checked, and to value 2 if checkbox is not checked. -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] list of all standard control events
Hi, I want to get a list of all standard control events used in publish element. Can anybody help me out ? Regards, Sanjay Rao -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
