Hey Neil, Brian,
It works thanks for your help.
Regards,
Rahul.
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From: Brian Rogers [mailto:rogers.br...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 7:30 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Some general questions about Wix
Hi,
I want some help on feature and its levels. how windows installer handles
the multiple features.
And what is install level and feature state?
I am bit confused with these. Please give some links where i can clarify my
doubts.
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I have a custom action written with DTF that increases the total ticks
of my progressbar by a fixed amount. What I would like to do is
increase the total ticks by a percentage, so that the last ~25% of my
progressbar is reserved for my CA to fill.
Is there a way to get the current total ticks of
Thanks, Rob,
yes, referring to the Module Guid works!
Thanks,
Stephan.
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Rob Mensching r...@wixtoolset.org wrote:
I assume you mean setting the Module Id through the Package/@Id
attribute *does* work, right?
stephan o'farrill wrote:
Thanks Rob,
I just
Hi Everyone,
I want to create a feature allow user to associate a file extension to one of
my distubuted applicatio but it comes up with the following error message:
error LGHT0204 : ICE69: Mismatched compone
nt reference. Entry 'reg025239CBB8E309CA4AF78D766B8DBDE4' of the Registry table
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368585.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369536.aspx
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Yeah, I could live with it. But it doesn't feel right to create an artificial
feature just for grouping merge modules. It is not intuitive for WiX
beginners I think.
Rob Mensching-6 wrote:
Doesn't FeatureGroup/FeatureGroupRef do what you want? It also allows
Features, but that should be
Why isn't it intuitive? I use it for the Visual Studio Redistributables
it feels completely fine to me but then I've created Merge modules for
partner companies to distribute our software in the past so I've seen it
from both sides of the MSM so to speak.
A merge module is a collection of
I'm not 100% sure, but I think you could schedule a custom action that sets the
property to itself, and do a DoAction event on the Next button.
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From: achandrapano [mailto:achan...@panologic.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 5:02 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Did you try http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wix_xsd_error.htmYou can
also try http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wix_xsd_uitext.htm
The error table should only be used to associate text with error strings,
UIText table is your general purpose bag-o-strings.
-Eric
From:
Have you considered using a WixLib to do this?
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 20:17:30 -0700
From: jonathan.new...@ni.com
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Using INSTALLDIR in MSM That Eventually Reflects the
MSIs INSTALLDIR
Hi Bob,
The problem is that the exe
I dont know what WixLib is. I am googleing...
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Eric St.John eric.st.j...@hotmail.comwrote:
Have you considered using a WixLib to do this?
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 20:17:30 -0700
From: jonathan.new...@ni.com
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject:
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372835(VS.85).aspx you will see
that the message states Control [3] on dialog [2] needs a property linked to
it.
I suggest setting the contr...@property attribute:
http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wix_xsd_control.htm
-Eric
Date: Wed, 20
HI
Is it possible to uninstall the existing application and continue with the
installation of the new version, when the installer is started. The default
behavior is : It shows up “Another version of the application is already
existing. Please uninstall from Add/Remove programs from Control
Again what benefits and/or advantages would that have over using a
Feature with Display=hidden Level=1 Absent=disallow set?
You're looking at a specific type of merge modules in your examples,
those of redistributables which the application you're distributing
depends on. This does not constitute
I dont really care how its done - as long as the result is ok. I am still
not sure though how the WixLib is supposed to solve my problem :(
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Eric St.John eric.st.j...@hotmail.comwrote:
See http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/votive_project_templates.htm
A
Thanks for checking.
To what should the attribute be set? The page doesnt say it or I dont see
it.
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Eric St.John eric.st.j...@hotmail.comwrote:
See
Quoting from the Windows Installer documentation:
A feature is a part of the application's total functionality that a user
recognizes and may decide to install independently.
But the user should usually not be able to optionally install the runtimes,
if the programs normal execution depends on
See http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/votive_project_templates.htm
A wixlib is a wix library. Consider it wix's form of a staticly linked
library. If you don't need to share your MSM externally you could just compile
a wixlib of fragments instead, add a reference to the wixlib in all of
Does the PathEdit control automatically show the Browse button as well?
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Eric St.John eric.st.j...@hotmail.comwrote:
You mentioned before that you wanted variable for later usage, these are
called properties in MSI. See
Thanks for checking.
To what should the attribute be set? The page doesnt say it or I dont see
it.
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Eric St.John eric.st.j...@hotmail.comwrote:
See
How do I add a custom action to a WiX UI Dlg?
David Bartmess wrote:
I'm not 100% sure, but I think you could schedule a custom action that
sets the property to itself, and do a DoAction event on the Next button.
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From: achandrapano
You mentioned before that you wanted variable for later usage, these are
called properties in MSI. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370889(VS.85).aspx. You'll want to
set that to a public property (all capital letters) so that it can be specified
on the commandline when the
Hi -
I am seeing different behavior with 2 different WIX versions. What I mean is,
when I have Wix V3 Version 3.0.5217, I am getting following error in the
Database2.wxi file.
Error 21 The sql:SqlString/@RollbackOnUninstall attribute cannot
be specified when attribute
Look at the Upgrade element etc, major upgrades, RemoveExistingProducts.
Phil Wilson
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From: Anu Dev [mailto:queryl...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 11:11 AM
To: WIX
Subject: [WiX-users] WIX + Uninstall existing Version and continue installing..
HI
Is it
To remove an existing version and replace it with a new version
requires an upgrade install.
RemoveExistingProducts is the standard action that works in concert
with the Upgrade table to remove previous versions of a product.
To remove the existing version before installing the current version,
I have pared this down to a very simple service install which I simply
install and then uninstall. I can demonstrate that only the first entry
in the ServiceControl table is used by the restart manager.
Does anyone know how to take this up with the Windows Installer team to
see if there any sort
Resending with the correct subject.
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Olex mr.olexan...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm attempting to set a text control with a copy right note, where I
specify $#169; for (c) symbol.
However, in MSI it shows up as ? symbol instead.
Is there a way to debug this?
I found
I'm attempting to set a text control with a copy right note, where I specify
$#169; for (c) symbol.
However, in MSI it shows up as ? symbol instead.
Is there a way to debug this?
I found out that I can correct MSI using Orca.exe by manually placing (c)
symbol, so there must be something failing
Pally Sandher wrote:
Again what benefits and/or advantages would that have over using a
Feature with Display=hidden Level=1 Absent=disallow set?
Why does WiX have any *Group/*GroupRef elements? So the internal
structure of your authoring isn't exposed except as necessary. Features
can be
Neil Sleightholm wrote:
Does anyone know how to take this up with the Windows Installer team to
see if there any sort of workaround or to at least bring it to their
attention?
AFAIK, the only way is to open a support ticket.
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Sunil Birari wrote:
Question is, Is this the expected behavior or known issue?
Expected: The rollback attributes are mutually exclusive with execute
attributes.
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Alastair Smith wrote:
I've been investigating the -cc CAB caching argument to light to speed up
some of our developer builds. I'm wondering if there's been a regression?
Are you using the -reusecab switch?
LinkerAdditionalOptions-b $(MsiFilesDir) -cc
David Gardiner wrote:
Although in my case, our solution doesn't have any C++ projects - just C#
Yep, the targets go through the same code path.
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jnewton wrote:
The problem is that the exe that I am referencing is actually in the MSI
that I am merging into. Basically the MSM just contains a bunch of static
registry entries (i.e. basically just adding the registry keys for the exe's
type library information). If I just [#blah.exe] in the
puyo puy wrote:
error LGHT0204 : ICE69: Mismatched compone
nt reference. Entry 'reg025239CBB8E309CA4AF78D766B8DBDE4' of the Registry
table
belongs to component 'ExtensionComponent'. However, the formatted string in
colu
mn 'Value' references file 'notepad2' which belongs to component
A FeatureGroup doesn't mean there is a Feature contained. A FeatureGroup
contains all of the stuff a Feature can contain. Just define a
FeatureGroup with only MergeRef elements in it.
zett42 wrote:
Yeah, I could live with it. But it doesn't feel right to create an artificial
feature just for
I believe that's the way PermissionEx behaves today. I think there is a
feature request open to have more attributes on it to have more behaviors.
Michael Bednarek wrote:
Okay. I didn't find any obvious article in MSDN, but what I did in the end
was to take an MSI with the behaviour I wanted
Did you pick a code page that supports that character? Personally, I
always recommend using the (c) instead of the actual character. It's
just more straightforward since MSI files are not Unicode.
Olex wrote:
I'm attempting to set a text control with a copy right note, where I specify
$#169;
Never heard of a feature like that.
Glenn Sandoval wrote:
I have a custom action written with DTF that increases the total ticks
of my progressbar by a fixed amount. What I would like to do is
increase the total ticks by a percentage, so that the last ~25% of my
progressbar is reserved for my
Why are you reading the Error table? Just use ::MsiProcessMessage() to
send a record with the error number set. Much easier.
How do you add rows to the Error table? Personally, I would start with
the Error element.
Sachin Dubey (Tata Consultancy Services) wrote:
Thanks Rob,
I am able to
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