Re: [WiX-users] Imperfect install leading to repair.

2014-01-29 Thread Scott Palmer
if the install was a major upgrade and that file was in-use during the uninstall then it may get deleted on reboot. That happens a lot because MSI is too stupid to check if fire that it might install are already scheduled to be deleted on reboot. So the new file gets installed and then deleted.

Re: [WiX-users] Imperfect install leading to repair.

2014-01-29 Thread Scott Palmer
about it all the time. -- Nicolas 2014-01-29 Scott Palmer swpal...@gmail.com: if the install was a major upgrade and that file was in-use during the uninstall then it may get deleted on reboot. That happens a lot because MSI is too stupid to check if fire that it might install

Re: [WiX-users] Making a symbolic link in an installer

2014-01-28 Thread Scott Palmer
:12 PM, Scott Palmer swpal...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone show me code that can successfully do it? I tried: CustomAction Id='Mklink' Directory=myDir ExeCommand='[SystemFolder]cmd.exe /K mklink /D mylink [$(var.linkDest)]' Execute=deferred Impersonate

Re: [WiX-users] Making a symbolic link in an installer

2014-01-25 Thread Scott Palmer
/user:DomainName\AdministratorAccountName cmd ref from: C:\runas /user:DomainName\AdministratorAccountName cmd cheers On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Scott Palmer swpal...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone show me code that can successfully do it? I tried: CustomAction Id='Mklink' Directory

[WiX-users] Making a symbolic link in an installer

2014-01-24 Thread Scott Palmer
Can someone show me code that can successfully do it? I tried: CustomAction Id='Mklink' Directory=myDir ExeCommand='[SystemFolder]cmd.exe /K mklink /D mylink [$(var.linkDest)]' Execute=deferred Impersonate=no / InstallExecuteSequence Custom Action=Mklink

Re: [WiX-users] Making a symbolic link in an installer

2014-01-24 Thread Scott Palmer
Execute=deferred Impersonate=no / On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Scott Palmer swpal...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone show me code that can successfully do it? I tried: CustomAction Id='Mklink' Directory=myDir ExeCommand='[SystemFolder

Re: [WiX-users] Making a symbolic link in an installer

2014-01-24 Thread Scott Palmer
\AdministratorAccountName cmd ref from: C:\runas /user:DomainName\AdministratorAccountName cmd cheers On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Scott Palmer swpal...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone show me code that can successfully do it? I tried: CustomAction Id='Mklink' Directory=myDir

[WiX-users] VBScript custom action failing - error hard to decipher

2009-11-02 Thread Scott Palmer
I'm having trouble getting a VBScript custom action to work. It's purpose it so backup some files that the major upgrade may otherwise delete. My WiX source looks like this: Binary Id='project_backup.vbs' SourceFile='project_backup.vbs'/ CustomAction Id='setProjectFolder'

Re: [WiX-users] VBScript custom action failing - error hard to decipher

2009-11-02 Thread Scott Palmer
Thanks, I found that and fixed a few other VBScript problems and now I have it working. (Only to discover other problems, however.) Scott On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Wilson, Phil phil.wil...@wonderware.com wrote: The WScript.Echo won't work - that's supplied by the WSH object, not by MSI.

[WiX-users] Installer radio buttons that disable features

2009-10-26 Thread Scott Palmer
In my UI I have three options represented by radio buttons in the UI that only are shown the first time the product is ever installed. Call them A,B,C. The selected feature is installed and remembered in the registry so I don't ask again if a newer version of the product is installed. I wanted

[WiX-users] Criteria for Automatically Generated Component GUIDs

2009-10-14 Thread Scott Palmer
What are the exact criteria for getting automatically generated GUIDs to work? I suspect this is related to my use of WIX_DIR_COMMON_DOCUMENTS (since there doesn't seem to be another way to get to that standard directory). I'm getting this error: error LGHT0231: The component 'indexComp' has a

Re: [WiX-users] Criteria for Automatically Generated Component GUIDs

2009-10-14 Thread Scott Palmer
. The folders that WiX knows about but Windows Installer doesn't (such as WIX_DIR_COMMON_DOCUMENTS) aren't in the well-known-location list because they may not exist on all platforms. -Original Message- From: Scott Palmer [mailto:swpal...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 7:21 AM

Re: [WiX-users] change the default wixui dialog color

2009-10-13 Thread Scott Palmer
The problem I'm having with this is for the accept license checkbox of the Minimal UI. It's really awkward to make that UI not look ugly. The external UI is interesting. One way that seems reasonable would be for an external UI in a bootstrapper to come up with values for all sorts of public

Re: [WiX-users] change the default wixui dialog color

2009-10-08 Thread Scott Palmer
Can the default WiX UIs change to use that trick so we don't have to customize everything just to get a decent background in the installer? Scott On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Blair os...@live.com wrote: This is very often discussed (search the archives, this is the second time this week).

Re: [WiX-users] Major Upgrade install - why are files missing?

2009-10-04 Thread Scott Palmer
having to find fixes over and over again for Microsoft. How exactly is this a legacy use ? How long has the problem been known? How many broken installs are out there that would just work if this was fixed? Thanks for your help! Scott -Original Message- From: Scott Palmer

Re: [WiX-users] Major Upgrade install - why are files missing?

2009-10-03 Thread Scott Palmer
Message- From: Scott Palmer [mailto:swpal...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 1:33 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Major Upgrade install - why are files missing? I have determined how to reproduce this problem.When the user runs

Re: [WiX-users] Major Upgrade install - why are files missing?

2009-10-02 Thread Scott Palmer
as well as install logs. With my previous employer we designed and had written much of such a tool (integrated into our evolving build system). I have plans to write such a tool, if there is interest I could push it up in the list. -Original Message- From: Scott Palmer [mailto:swpal

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade Installs and Component Rules

2009-09-25 Thread Scott Palmer
Id='R2' On='install' Name='...'/ !-- if R2 is a registry key --RemoveRegistryKey Action='removeOnInstall' .../ !-- you are out of luck if it us just a registry value -- ... Id='R3'/ /Component Blair -Original Message- From: Scott Palmer [mailto:swpal...@gmail.com] Sent

Re: [WiX-users] Major Upgrade install - why are files missing?

2009-09-23 Thread Scott Palmer
of such a tool (integrated into our evolving build system). I have plans to write such a tool, if there is interest I could push it up in the list. -Original Message- From: Scott Palmer [mailto:swpal...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 6:19 AM To: General discussion

Re: [WiX-users] Major Upgrade install - why are files missing?

2009-09-21 Thread Scott Palmer
Getting back to the original problem. The files that were missing after my major upgrade install were in a merge module that I created that was the same in both products and therefore followed the component rules (since there were no changes to the install path or content of any components).

[WiX-users] Upgrade Installs and Component Rules

2009-09-21 Thread Scott Palmer
In version 1 of my application I have a component C1 which contains multiple resources. C1 = { R1, R2, R3 } The file R1 is the key path for C1. The rest of the application requires that the resources are installed with the same path and names in V1 and V2. In version 2 of my application I need

[WiX-users] Major Upgrade install - why are files missing?

2009-09-18 Thread Scott Palmer
I have made an installer that attempts to remove a previous version of a product before installing the new version.The installer runs and appears to remove old files and coy new ones... but it at the end of it all there are files missing. I have a merge module that installs a common component

Re: [WiX-users] How to make a User deletable desktop shortcutthat isinstalled for all users.

2009-08-12 Thread Scott Palmer
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Peter Shirtcliffe pshirtcli...@sdl.comwrote: You could also have the application create it on first run. With the application being hard to find, you could run it after [first-time] installation, if that isnt too irritating to the users. The application isn't

[WiX-users] How to make a User deletable desktop shortcut that is installed for all users.

2009-08-11 Thread Scott Palmer
Our product places some commonly accessed documents in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\CompanyName\ProductName using Directory Id=WIX_DIR_COMMON_DOCUMENTS Directory Id=CompanyDocs Name=CompanyName Directory Id=ProductDocs Name=ProductName ... blah... Since on XP (the most

[WiX-users] How to create Pinned Start menu items

2008-10-08 Thread Scott Palmer
How can I have my WiX installer create an item in the Start menu that is pinned ? Thanks, Scott - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with

[WiX-users] Fwd: MSXML4 SP1 merge module error

2008-07-10 Thread Scott Palmer
Resending (third time) since this never seems to get to the list... -- Forwarded message -- I need to include MS SOAP in my installer via three merge modules provided by Microsoft: isapi3_files.msm soap3_core.msm winhttp51.msm They in turn depending on MS XML4 SP1.. of which I

Re: [WiX-users] Fwd: MSXML4 SP1 merge module error

2008-07-10 Thread Scott Palmer
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Christopher Painter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this won't directly answer your question, but any chance you could just switch to .NET? You could create a ComVisible(true) class that deals with your XML/SOAP issues and exposes it to your unmanaged code.

[WiX-users] MSXML4 SP1 merge module error

2008-07-04 Thread Scott Palmer
Resending since the original didn't appear on the list after two days... -- Forwarded message -- I need to include MS SOAP in my installer via three merge modules provided by Microsoft: isapi3_files.msm soap3_core.msm winhttp51.msm They in turn depending on MS XML4 SP1.. of

[WiX-users] WiX 3.0.4227.0 still broken with Visual Studio 2005

2008-07-02 Thread Scott Palmer
In the output window: error messages are seen only numerically e.g. Error CNDL0205 with no descriptive text, and newlines are still missing. Scott - Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0.4227.0 still broken with Visual Studio 2005

2008-07-02 Thread Scott Palmer
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Palmer Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 08:13 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0.4227.0 still broken with Visual Studio 2005 In the output window: error messages are seen only numerically e.g. Error CNDL0205

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0.4227.0 still broken with Visual Studio 2005

2008-07-02 Thread Scott Palmer
not a problem in VS2008). There is a moderately complex workaround possible, but nobody has implemented it yet. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Palmer Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 11:12 AM To: General discussion for Windows

[WiX-users] MSXML4 SP1 merge module error

2008-07-02 Thread Scott Palmer
I need to include MS SOAP in my installer via three merge modules provided by Microsoft: isapi3_files.msm soap3_core.msm winhttp51.msm They in turn depending on MS XML4 SP1.. of which I have two merge modules, also from Microsoft: msxml4sxs32.msm msxml4sys32.msm As it happened I was missing the

Re: [WiX-users] Preprocessor ifdef did odd thing

2008-06-27 Thread Scott Palmer
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Palmer Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 06:21 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Preprocessor ifdef did odd thing I have a product that can be built two ways. I have two WiX installer projects in visual studio, sharing many of the same wxs

[WiX-users] Preprocessor ifdef did odd thing

2008-06-25 Thread Scott Palmer
I have a product that can be built two ways. I have two WiX installer projects in visual studio, sharing many of the same wxs files. One project defines a variable in the project settings to cause some of the .wxs files to compile differently, like this: ... Component Id=someFiles

Re: [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds?

2008-05-14 Thread Scott Palmer
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Justin Rockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hate the locking as well. Unfortunately, this is a bug in the MPF (the Visual Studio SDK) that they have not fixed yet. We will have to just fix it on our own instead of waiting for a fix from them. Note that it's not

Re: [WiX-users] yep - back to being 100% frustrated

2008-05-14 Thread Scott Palmer
We all knew this thread was going nowhere from the first post of course... My only point was that (in my experience) the original posters frustration is shared by the vast majority of developers trying to do installers on Windows. (i.e. everyone I know that has ever seen or worked on a WiX

Re: [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds?

2008-05-14 Thread Scott Palmer
annoying ones that should have higher priority (along with the other one that you pointed out - same line output). Thanks for the bug reports! Justin From: Scott Palmer Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 7:14 AM To: Justin Rockwood Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Did

Re: [WiX-users] yep - back to being 100% frustrated

2008-05-13 Thread Scott Palmer
Well I dropped by to ask for help (I wonder if I will get it now :-)) but first I have to chime in and agree with Chris and Mark. I dislike that what I am about to post is basically a rant, but I think there are a lot more people on their side than others seem to think, so I want to show my

[WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds?

2008-05-13 Thread Scott Palmer
I just updated WiX from the 2925 build (still the last beta posted to SF) to the May 9 weekly build 4109. Now all of my WiX project don't build. They don't even get started. I instantly get this error when trying to build: 3-- Build started: Project: Stream, Configuration: Release Any CPU

Re: [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds?

2008-05-13 Thread Scott Palmer
gets fixed by the next build. *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Scott Palmer *Sent:* Tuesday, May 13, 2008 08:31 *To:* wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds? I just updated WiX

Re: [WiX-users] yep - back to being 100% frustrated

2008-05-13 Thread Scott Palmer
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Josh Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip The moral of the story is that deployment procedures really are part of the source code for an application. They are also risky, so implement them first to minimize risk. This is the problem. Deployment SHOULD be

Re: [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds?

2008-05-13 Thread Scott Palmer
4102 works better.. though it still has problems with Light output. The text description of errors is missing - you just get a code, and it's all on one line in visual studio. Scott On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Scott Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool thanks. Another thing... I

Re: [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds?

2008-05-13 Thread Scott Palmer
that says Visual Studio is not responding. If this happens frequently contact Microsoft. - Is always frequently enough? Scott On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Scott Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4102 works better.. though it still has problems with Light output. The text description

Re: [WiX-users] Did WiX V3 projects break compatibility with earlier builds?

2008-05-13 Thread Scott Palmer
Yes, I am using VS2005. The 2925 build on SourceForge works properly with the line endings. That narrows it down to only around 1200 builds :-) Regards, Scott On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Rob Mensching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The line endings is a different bug that has been open for

Re: [WiX-users] Is there a directory property forCSIDL_COMMON_DOCUMENTS ?

2008-01-23 Thread Scott Palmer
-- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Scott Palmer *Sent:* 22 January 2008 21:32 *To:* wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* [WiX-users] Is there a directory property forCSIDL_COMMON_DOCUMENTS ? I'm trying to make some

Re: [WiX-users] Is there a directory property forCSIDL_COMMON_DOCUMENTS ?

2008-01-23 Thread Scott Palmer
Never mind.. got it all sorted. Directory Id=WIX_DIR_COMMON_DOCUMENTS it is. I gather Directory Ids are properties of sorts and property expansion in the directory name doesn't happen. Sorry for the noise. On Jan 23, 2008 9:35 AM, Scott Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Err. of course I

[WiX-users] Is there a directory property for CSIDL_COMMON_DOCUMENTS ?

2008-01-22 Thread Scott Palmer
I'm trying to make some changes to play nice on Vista... Currently our product has several folders that it places under Program Files, e.g.: C:\Program Files\Company\Product\Data_A C:\Program Files\Company\Product\Data_B C:\Program Files\Company\Product\Data_C The purpose of these folders was

Re: [WiX-users] How to detect if UAC is turned on

2008-01-08 Thread Scott Palmer
On Jan 7, 2008 6:18 PM, Mike Dimmick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right, let's explain UAC. I've replied to Mike off-list as the discussion is not about WiX or MSI anymore. If anyone has related comments to add, please mail me privately to keep the list on-topic. Thanks, Scott

Re: [WiX-users] How to detect if UAC is turned on

2008-01-07 Thread Scott Palmer
. Thanks for the assistance everyone. Scott On Jan 4, 2008 2:07 PM, Scott Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to detect if UAC is turned on in Vista and refuse to install if it is. How can I do this? Scott

[WiX-users] How to detect if UAC is turned on

2008-01-04 Thread Scott Palmer
I want to detect if UAC is turned on in Vista and refuse to install if it is. How can I do this? Scott - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005.

[WiX-users] Minimal UI doesn't paint license agreement

2007-10-24 Thread Scott Palmer
On 1/22/07, Goetz, Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to help from this group I am now able to specify which UI I wish to use by passing the following to light.exe: -ext WixUIExtension.dll-cultures:en-us and specifying say UIRef Id=WixUI_Minimal / In my .wxs file. The minimal UI

Re: [WiX-users] Minimal UI doesn't paint license agreement

2007-10-24 Thread Scott Palmer
On 10/24/07, Bob Arnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Palmer wrote: Is there a way to actually get the license agreement to show on the license agreement screen without having to highlight the text or adjust the scrollbar? I find that my license agreement is there - but is not drawn

Re: [WiX-users] ProjectAggregator2-3.0.2925.msi fails to install with odd network error

2007-07-26 Thread Scott Palmer
If an upgrade isn't supported then what happened when I renamed the file and it just worked ? I think that the msi files provided with WiX itself should be good examples to follow... but perhaps they aren't. Scott On 7/25/07, Quattro IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got that same error, you

[WiX-users] ProjectAggregator2-3.0.2925.msi fails to install with odd network error

2007-07-25 Thread Scott Palmer
I downloaded the latest 3.0 release and when I attempt to install the project aggregator MSI windows gives me an error message A network error occurred while attempting to read from the file C:\ProjectAggregator2.msi (resending, since list acknowledged receipt but failed to follow through with

[WiX-users] ProjectAggregator2-3.0.2925.msi fails to install with odd network error

2007-07-23 Thread Scott Palmer
I downloaded the latest 3.0 release and when I attempt to install the project aggregator MSI windows gives me an error message A network error occurred while attempting to read from the file C:\ProjectAggregator2.msi There are a couple odd things about this. For one, access to my local C drive

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox that won't check or un-check

2007-07-17 Thread Scott Palmer
On 7/16/07, Bob Arnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Palmer wrote: Microsoft certainly doesn't like to make things easy do they? I assume though that if someone in the WMF group clued in to using MSI that they might also have the foresight to provide a merge module

Re: [WiX-users] Checkbox that won't check or un-check

2007-07-16 Thread Scott Palmer
Microsoft certainly doesn't like to make things easy do they? I assume though that if someone in the WMF group clued in to using MSI that they might also have the foresight to provide a merge module for the redistributables. Kind of like they should have years ago. However, assuming that they

[WiX-users] Checkbox that won't check or un-check

2007-07-13 Thread Scott Palmer
I've got a checkbox in my installer that for some reason cannot be changed by the user and I haven't a clue why. Anyone got some ideas? Here's some code snippets: The initial state is set to checked... (most users will want to upgrade .. some will need to keep old versions because later

Re: [WiX-users] Conditionally installing components based on user'slocale

2007-06-07 Thread Scott Palmer
-- *From:* Scott Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* 6. juni 2007 14:26 *To:* wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Cc:* Rennie Petersen *Subject:* Re: [WiX-users] Conditionally installing components based on user'slocale Thanks, but I need to know the country and I don't really care

Re: [WiX-users] Conditionally installing components based on user'slocale

2007-06-06 Thread Scott Palmer
the property in the Welcome dialog box.) But it should also be possible to make use of this property in MSIs irrespective of whether the UI is invoked or not. Rennie -- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Scott Palmer *Sent:* 6. juni 2007 04:08

[WiX-users] Conditionally installing components based on user's locale

2007-06-05 Thread Scott Palmer
As part of my setup I would like to write certain registry values depending on the country setting of the OS. E.g. for North American users I might set a registry value to 1, for European users the value would be set to 2. Is there an easy way to do this without writing a custom action? Failing

Re: [WiX-users] Using heat.exe as part of an automated build process

2007-05-21 Thread Scott Palmer
But it obviously should be. I hope this can be fixed, since we are stuck with having to deal with all the problems of COM and for some silly reason (I haven't seen a good argument against it yet) SelfReg is not supported and officially broken for dynamically linked DLLs on Vista. Microsoft

[WiX-users] Fwd: VC8 runtime merge module and COM registration onVista, error 0x800736B1

2007-05-18 Thread Scott Palmer
Ah, but having the built files build to a Release folder isn't the problem. The problem is the WiX code generated by Heat wants to install the files TO a folder named Release inside the applications target folder of the user's machine. In order to install the DLL to the folder I want, I need to

Re: [WiX-users] Using heat.exe as part of an automated build process

2007-05-18 Thread Scott Palmer
Not exactly. If you use Heat on a COM DLL, Heat inserts PUT-GUID-HERE for the GUID so you can do a search/replace as part of the automated build to keep the GUID correct and always the same for that component. Other issues are with the directory structure that Heat uses and the fact that it's

[WiX-users] VC8 runtime merge module and COM registration on Vista, error 0x800736B1

2007-05-17 Thread Scott Palmer
I have a problem on Vista where my COM DLLs don't register (HRESULT = 0x800736B1) .. after Googling it seems this is caused by the C runtime not being installed. (All other DLLs that are compiled with VC6 or supplied by others register fine.) My installer also works fine on Windows XP. I

Re: [WiX-users] VC8 runtime merge module and COM registration on Vista, error 0x800736B1

2007-05-17 Thread Scott Palmer
Wilson -- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Scott Palmer *Sent:* Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:42 AM *To:* wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* [WiX-users] VC8 runtime merge module and COM registration on Vista,error 0x800736B1 I have

[WiX-users] Advertised Shortcuts don't show the correct Icon

2007-04-16 Thread Scott Palmer
(Despite receiving a confirmation, I haven't seen this message hit the list after 4 days, so I'm resending...) In my WiX XML I have: Icon Id=MyProduct.ico SourceFile=$(var.MainIconPath)/ ... Shortcut Id=desktopShortcut Directory=DesktopFolder Name=MyProduct WorkingDirectory=INSTALLDIR

Re: [WiX-users] Advertised Shortcuts don't show the correct Icon

2007-04-16 Thread Scott Palmer
-- *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Scott Palmer *Sent:* Monday, April 16, 2007 10:53 AM *To:* wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* [WiX-users] Advertised Shortcuts don't show the correct Icon (Despite receiving a confirmation, I haven't seen this message hit

Re: [WiX-users] Advertised Shortcuts don't show the correct Icon

2007-04-16 Thread Scott Palmer
understanding... FWIW. - Brett -- *From:* Scott Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Monday, April 16, 2007 2:58 PM *To:* Brett Kapilik *Subject:* Re: [WiX-users] Advertised Shortcuts don't show the correct Icon Thanks for the response. The icon is in fact a .ico

[WiX-users] Advertised Shortcuts are often given the Wrong Icon

2007-04-09 Thread Scott Palmer
In my WiX XML I have: Icon Id=MyProduct.ico SourceFile=$(var.MainIconPath)/ ... Shortcut Id=desktopShortcut Directory=DesktopFolder Name=MyProduct WorkingDirectory=INSTALLDIR Icon=MyProduct.ico IconIndex=0 Advertise=yes/ The shortcut gets created. On my machine and some

Re: [WiX-users] Missing Shortcut

2007-01-25 Thread Scott Palmer
On 1/25/07, Scott Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/25/07, Scott Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/25/07, Bob Arnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Palmer wrote: When I install the component, the file mm-configwizard.exe is installed, but the shortcut is not. How

Re: [WiX-users] Missing Shortcut

2007-01-25 Thread Scott Palmer
On 1/25/07, Bob Arnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Palmer wrote: The Company Name folder is already present in the start menu from installation of a different product, but the My Product sub-folder is not created for this product. (There is another product installed that has shortcuts

[WiX-users] Shared files

2007-01-25 Thread Scott Palmer
I have a COM DLL that I want to place in a common place for all products installed by my company. E.g. \Program Files\Company Name\Common For the Component I set SharedDllRefCount=yes. I'm wondering about the best way to install and how the GUID for the component is involved. Do I use the

Re: [WiX-users] Shared files

2007-01-25 Thread Scott Palmer
On 1/25/07, Mike Dimmick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... For best results, you should ensure that any common files are members of the same component (i.e. have the same component GUID) in all packages that distribute them. Further, the component should have the same composition (*exactly* the

[WiX-users] Missing Shortcut

2007-01-24 Thread Scott Palmer
I have the following in my WiX source file: ... !-- this is nested inside typical INSTALLDIR (Program Files/Company Name/Product Name) -- Component Id=ConfigComp Guid=BA4808AF-DDCF-408b-B0C3-4D7173F8AE57 File Id=mm_configwizard.exe Source=..\..\MediaManager\dist\ KeyPath=yes

Re: [WiX-users] Bitmap scaling

2007-01-23 Thread Scott Palmer
On 1/22/07, Bob Arnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Bennett wrote: Ok, I should have clarified that I have read that bit of the tutorial many times and it doesn't help a lot. In particular: - the two systems that are displaying it differently have the same font size, different

Re: [WiX-users] light bogging down my machine

2007-01-10 Thread Scott Palmer
On 1/10/07, André Pönitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I have the problem that longer runs of 'light' make my desktop machine basically unusable for any other task in that time I run Wix V3. I've noticed that Light locks up all of Visual Studio at least, but the rest of the system

Re: [WiX-users] Shouldn’t WiX be Production/Stable instead of Beta?

2007-01-08 Thread Scott Palmer
Soon as I saw that Wix V2 required me to enter short file names I immediately tossed it in the garbage (keeping backwards 8.3 filenames in the OS was one of Microsoft's stupidest ideas) and moved to Wix V3. The only issue I've had with Wix V3 is that it didn't work properly for installing

Re: [WiX-users] Solution for StartMenuFolder x StartupFolder ?

2007-01-08 Thread Scott Palmer
I do the same horrible hack. I've never tested on Vista though.. but I don't care about any logo-program as long as my install works. There needs to be an easy way to turn of the errors that are reported for this case, since this same issue has come up a couple times already. On 1/8/07, André

Re: [WiX-users] Creating features with lots of components

2006-12-20 Thread Scott Palmer
I wrote a small program to walk a directory hierarchy and generate the XML for a fragment that defines a ComponentGroup for the root folder that you specify. It's an easy program to write and the output can be customized to the way I like it, i.e. a lot cleaner than the output from the WiX tool,

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble with Shortcuts...

2006-12-18 Thread Scott Palmer
When I made my installer with WiX was the first time I had ever seen the greyed out target. Everyone in the office that I mentioned it to indicated that it was new to them I don't use MS Office, and the Office users around here weren't familiar with them. So they may have used them, but they

Re: [WiX-users] Fwd: How can I force files to be overwritten?

2006-12-16 Thread Scott Palmer
On 12/16/06, Rob Mensching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. It is buried somewhere. I think it may be around the File Versioning topic. Got it.. very limited... makes installers hard to get right. The rules (i.e. omus vs amus) should be per component. 2. Shipping someone else's content to a

[WiX-users] Trouble with Shortcuts...

2006-12-13 Thread Scott Palmer
I'm using WiX3. I am trying to make a shortcut as part of installing a component. The shortcut is to a launcher application that is installed in another component with a command-line argument that has the path to a file in the component that contains the shortcut. If I just use: ... Component

[WiX-users] How can I force files to be overwritten?

2006-12-11 Thread Scott Palmer
I have several files from a third party that I can not control the version information in. It may be that the version information is set to 1.0.0.0for different versions of the same file, some files have no version info at all. I want to be sure that the latest file gets installed even if the

[WiX-users] My Uninstaller tells me to exit unrelated applications

2006-12-08 Thread Scott Palmer
When I uninstall my product I'm being asked to shut down applications that are totally unrelated to my product. It seems to be Java applications that I need to close down, but really I just need to close the window they have open, the application can remain running. (E.g. I have a tool that

Re: [WiX-users] Is click once what we should be using?

2006-12-06 Thread Scott Palmer
On 12/5/06, Rob Mensching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found that there are very few degrees of freedom in ClickOnce. What is even more frustrating is that the Windows Installer supports all of the basic needs and everyone would have benefited if an auto-update story was built for the Windows

Re: [WiX-users] WiX website is confusing

2006-12-04 Thread Scott Palmer
Done. Request ID 1608479 On 12/1/06, Rob Mensching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great point. Can you open a bug so we don't lose this? - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay

Re: [WiX-users] New Official Installation Technology? CBS? What?

2006-12-01 Thread Scott Palmer
On 11/30/06, Rob Mensching [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used to work on CBS (that's the team I just quit). Trust me, it is the latest but it certainly isn't the greatest. smile/ Are you suggesting that it can get worse than MSI? :-)

[WiX-users] WiX website is confusing

2006-12-01 Thread Scott Palmer
I wanted to download Votive V3.. which I think I already have, but I was installing on a new machine... The install instructions for Votive here: http://wix.sourceforge.net/votive.html don't mention how to install votive at all. It only talks of prerequisites. The download links at the side

[WiX-users] Dynamically constructing the feature tree for the Mondo Custom install

2006-11-29 Thread Scott Palmer
Among the various features in my app there is a need to install one and only one feature from a set of two features. I've added a panel to the Mondo UI that appears after selecting Custom and before the CustomDlg with the feature tree. My dialog has radio buttons to select which thing to

Re: [WiX-users] vc8 redistributables

2006-11-28 Thread Scott Palmer
On 11/28/06, John Calcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone point me to some docs that describe how to incorporate an MSM into my Wix installer? I would like to incorporate the vc8 redistributable package into my WIX MSI, but I don't have a clue how to do that. I'm not 100% certain that

Re: [WiX-users] [WiX-devs] Customized UI

2006-11-27 Thread Scott Palmer
Gary, I have the exact same need and so far the documentation I've seen for WiX (what little there is) suggests that you need to download the source code and recompile the WiX UI library (!) -- so perhaps your message fit better on the dev list than John implies :). It's in the tutorial in