Re: [WiX-users] ComponentGroup vs DirectoryRef

2010-01-21 Thread Brian Simoneau
Leave what you have in the current fragment, but add a ComponentGroup that contains a ComponentRef for each component. Then add a ComponentGroupRef to the different Features. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: Jakub Gwóźdź [mailto:gwozd...@rpg.pl] Sent: Thursday, January 21

Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action Sequencing

2009-12-17 Thread Brian Simoneau
It is indeterminate. Either action may run first. If you need them to be in a certain order, then schedule them relative to each other instead of just relative to CostFinalize. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: Kevin Garman [mailto:gar...@scadaware.com] Sent: Thursday, December

Re: [WiX-users] InstallShield 2010 vs InstallAware 9

2009-11-12 Thread Brian Simoneau
My company was using InstallShield before switching to WiX. I have never used InstallAware, but the only advice I can give is to use WiX. It's free and can do anything that the commercial products do, sometimes better. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: Matt W

Re: [WiX-users] problem with upgrade to another version

2009-06-18 Thread Brian Simoneau
If you want a minor upgrade, you have to go with * install msi with command REINSTALLMODE=vomus, not good for normal users You don't make the users do this themselves. Create a bootstrapper that passes that argument when doing a minor upgrade. -Brian Simoneau -Original Me

Re: [WiX-users] wix-users archive on SourceForge

2009-05-22 Thread Brian Simoneau
No, in fact I just read your message there. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: Alex Ivanoff [mailto:alex.ivan...@shavlik.com] Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 1:38 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] wix-users archive on SourceForge Does

Re: [WiX-users] Files in use

2009-05-12 Thread Brian Simoneau
You can set MSIRESTARTMANAGERCONTROL to Disable. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@wixtoolset.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 11:11 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Files in use The difference

Re: [WiX-users] How to disable/bypass FilesInUse dialog

2009-04-23 Thread Brian Simoneau
http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/msifaq/a/1042.htm -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: Jan Bilek [mailto:bil...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 2:58 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to disable/bypass FilesInUse dialog Hello, Is there

Re: [WiX-users] Fails to register a dll that depends on VC9 runtime

2009-04-16 Thread Brian Simoneau
What are you using then to handle executable COM servers? -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: Pally Sandher [mailto:pally.sand...@iesve.com] Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 6:40 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Fails to register a

Re: [WiX-users] Samples errors follow up

2009-03-25 Thread Brian Simoneau
Check out the bottom of the tutorial pages. The tutorial was created by Gábor DEÁK JAHN and not the WiX team itself. Any questions about the tutorial should go to him. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: Louis elston [mailto:louels...@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 25

Re: [WiX-users] FW: Permanent xml tag for File?

2009-03-12 Thread Brian Simoneau
Components can be marked Permanent. Any files in the component would not be uninstalled. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: Hugo Vale [mailto:hugov...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 1:07 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] FW: Permanent xml tag

Re: [WiX-users] Verify the installation mode is silent or not.

2009-03-05 Thread Brian Simoneau
You can use the UILevel property. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372096(VS.85).aspx -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: sandun css [mailto:sandun...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 5:26 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Verify the

Re: [WiX-users] Modify behavior of tree selection control?

2009-01-23 Thread Brian Simoneau
This is not possible with a Windows Installer tree control. You will need to write your own. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: Corry, Davidson [mailto:davidson.co...@sage.com] Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 1:47 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset

Re: [WiX-users] A few questions

2008-12-30 Thread Brian Simoneau
Try WindowFolder and SystemFolder. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: phillip_sid...@dellteam.com [mailto:phillip_sid...@dellteam.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 2:29 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] A few questions Thanks for the info! My

Re: [WiX-users] backuponinstall

2008-11-24 Thread Brian Simoneau
Add the batch file as a Binary and run the custom action before InstallFiles. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: Yu, Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 8:04 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] backuponinstall Hi there I am

Re: [WiX-users] daisy chaining DLLs in custom actions

2008-11-19 Thread Brian Simoneau
If you own the code for tools.dll, you can change it to a library and link the library in CustomActions.dll. Otherwise, you will have to extract tools.dll onto the system before using it. There is no built-in way to do this. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: Oren Mazor [mailto

Re: [WiX-users] Installing the same files in 2 directories.

2008-11-04 Thread Brian Simoneau
What version did WiX start using smart cabbing? Has it been there all along? -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 11:10 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users

Re: [WiX-users] Property problem - additional info

2008-09-05 Thread Brian Simoneau
Run your custom actions to set the properties in the InstallExecuteSequence as well. Your installer may not run with the UI anyways. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Rerick Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 6:29 PM

Re: [WiX-users] ScheduleReboot Message

2008-09-02 Thread Brian Simoneau
I think it's the Error Dialog. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernd Adler Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 9:38 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] ScheduleReboot Message Hi, Which Dial

Re: [WiX-users] Unable to write the UninstallString value

2008-08-21 Thread Brian Simoneau
ation. Instead, you can set your installer to a system component and then write your own ARP entry. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nilkund Aseef Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 1:53 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

Re: [WiX-users] Custom action Condition on Property value?

2008-08-21 Thread Brian Simoneau
If that Property element is copied exactly, then there is the problem. You are setting INSTALLERROR to Value="0". Change it to 0 Or To set INSTALLERROR to 0. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yuval David Sent

Re: [WiX-users] Disabling feature options on parent feature?

2008-06-16 Thread Brian Simoneau
This has been answered on the mailing list before. Search for "Removing Install to Run From Network Feature Option". This happens when a feature only has sub-features and not components. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [WiX-users] Setting properties

2008-06-13 Thread Brian Simoneau
are not evaluated and the default value is always used. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Friedrich Dominicus Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 1:00 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX

Re: [WiX-users] Setting properties

2008-06-12 Thread Brian Simoneau
Use a custom action to set ANOTHER_PROP to PROP1 with a condition that PROP1 exists. Something like PROP1 You can do the same thing for PROP2 or set PROP2 as the default value of ANOTHER_PROP since it is the else case. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

Re: [WiX-users] using one property to set another

2008-06-12 Thread Brian Simoneau
After attribute is also the correct way to sequence actions. -Brian Simoneau From: Natxo Mateos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 10:42 AM To: Brian Simoneau Subject: Re: [WiX-users] using one property to set an

Re: [WiX-users] using one property to set another

2008-06-11 Thread Brian Simoneau
Steps 1 and 3 both happen during the AppSearch action. There's no way to break them apart and do MyAssign in the middle. You could do step 3 in a custom action after MyAssign. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Natxo M

Re: [WiX-users] How do you get an msi's filename?

2008-05-02 Thread Brian Simoneau
You can use the OriginalDatabase property. -Brian Simoneau From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bir, Steve Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 3:09 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How

Re: [WiX-users] (no subject)

2008-04-04 Thread Brian Simoneau
Deferred custom actions must be scheduled between InstallInitialize and InstallFinalize. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 2:24 PM To: Bob Arnson Cc: wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] msi package compression

2008-04-03 Thread Brian Simoneau
Look at the CompressionLevel attribute of the Media element. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Koloszar Jozsef Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 3:11 AM To: Bob Arnson Cc: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users

Re: [WiX-users] Patching fails to find files in cab.

2007-12-27 Thread Brian Simoneau
I have also gotten crashes in the latest version of Orca when trying to view patches. I ended up going back to an earlier version of Orca (2.0.3790) which is more stable. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of LindseyLeu Sent

Re: [WiX-users] Disk Usage dialog values

2007-11-05 Thread Brian Simoneau
I tried installing to a different drive. The other drive shows 68 MB required, but there is still 91 MB required shown on the C drive. Is there a way to redirect what temporary space Windows Installer uses? -Brian Simoneau From: Bob Arnson [mailto

Re: [WiX-users] Disk Usage dialog values

2007-11-05 Thread Brian Simoneau
required to handle rollback? -Brian Simoneau From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 2:52 PM To: Brian Simoneau Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Disk Usage

Re: [WiX-users] The whole update maze in MSI

2007-11-02 Thread Brian Simoneau
To get the second option to work, save the installation directory in the registry when you install v1.0. Then when performing a major upgrade, have v1.1 search the registry for the installation directory and use it. -Brian Simoneau From: [EMAIL

[WiX-users] Disk Usage dialog values

2007-11-01 Thread Brian Simoneau
Where does the disk usage dialog get the values to put into the table? The selection tree in the custom setup dialog indicates that the install requires 68 MB, but in the disk usage dialog it says that 159 MB are required on the drive. I would expect these values to be the same. Brian Simoneau

Re: [WiX-users] Set path variable & use it to install files.

2007-10-11 Thread Brian Simoneau
The $ must be outside of the parentheses. $(var.HelpSourceFolder) instead of ($var.HelpSourceFolder) -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of hina1703 Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 2:47 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [WiX-users] ConfigurableDirectory seems to change unrelatedproperties

2007-10-11 Thread Brian Simoneau
How are the Directory elements defined? If the Directory element for ANOTHERDIR is under the Directory element for INSTALLDIR, then changing INSTALLDIR is expected to change ANOTHERDIR as well. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [WiX-users] Custom action to call a method in DLL

2007-10-11 Thread Brian Simoneau
The installer extracts the dll to the temporary location in order to call the custom action and then deletes the temp file. The actual error is in calling the custom action or in the custom action itself. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] Deferred CustomActions and properties

2007-10-01 Thread Brian Simoneau
You should read lesson 3 of the WiX tutorial http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson3.php Look for how to set CustomActionData for your deferred actions. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of md5hans Sent: Monday, October 01

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall fonts?

2007-09-27 Thread Brian Simoneau
The best way to leave a component is to give it a GUID but mark the component as Permanent. -Brian Simoneau From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kelly Leahy Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 9:54 PM To: Kelly

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade... again

2007-09-20 Thread Brian Simoneau
We use a bootstrapper that we wrote ourselves, but if you search this list for "bootstrapper" you should find recommendations from others. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: Anton Filippov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 12:18 AM To: Brian S

Re: [WiX-users] Upgrade... again

2007-09-19 Thread Brian Simoneau
You need a bootstrapper that can detect whether the app is installed. If it is not installed, then run it normally. If it is installed, then add the reinstall command line options. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anton

Re: [WiX-users] Cancelling Uninstall Question, How do I prevent a custom action from occuring

2007-09-19 Thread Brian Simoneau
If you cancel the uninstall before the custom action is run, then there is no problem. If you cancel after the custom action is run, then you will need a rollback custom action to undo what the first custom action did. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

Re: [WiX-users] CA running an executable from a registry string

2007-09-17 Thread Brian Simoneau
Well, the log mentions UninstallOldXYZ but the .wxs file has UninstallOldBPM as the name of the action. Make sure any old versions of the msi have been uninstalled and that the one you are running is the correct one. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

Re: [WiX-users] sequence question...

2007-09-12 Thread Brian Simoneau
The sequence of events can be changed in an installer. You can use Orca to see the sequence of events for your particular msi file. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frédéric Viollet Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 10

Re: [WiX-users] GDI+ MergeModule

2007-08-29 Thread Brian Simoneau
Try this in your condition -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of stian Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 8:57 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] GDI+ MergeModule Thanks, but still the same error

Re: [WiX-users] minor upgrade: reinstall flag?

2007-08-28 Thread Brian Simoneau
Properties are case-sensitive, so try REINSTALL in your condition. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Ward Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 8:35 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] minor upgrade

Re: [WiX-users] WIX preprocessor problem with variables

2007-08-24 Thread Brian Simoneau
For ifdef and ifndef, just use the name of the variable. So your statement should look like -Brian Simoneau From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sameeksha Chepe Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 12:33 AM To

Re: [WiX-users] Registering an EXE via a Custom Action

2007-08-09 Thread Brian Simoneau
That would imply a different issue. I would look for your custom action in the log to see if it is being run. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tanikella, Rajanikanth (SCR US) Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 9:56 AM To

Re: [WiX-users] Registering an EXE via a Custom Action

2007-08-09 Thread Brian Simoneau
If your custom action is sequenced after InstallFinalize, then it should be immediate. The commit and deferred types can only be used between InstallInitialize and InstallFinalize. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: [WiX-users] Write into HKey_Current_Config

2007-08-06 Thread Brian Simoneau
Just use HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Hardware Profiles\Current. -Brian Simoneau From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stanislav Martinek Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 11:08 AM To: wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] AppSearch during UI

2007-07-31 Thread Brian Simoneau
You could write a permanent registry entry containing the path that the user selected, then read the registry entry when the install is run again to find out where it was installed before. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: [WiX-users] Suppress Add/Remove

2007-07-23 Thread Brian Simoneau
Use the ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT property. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367750.aspx -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ward, Mike (MED US) Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 1:59 PM To: wix

Re: [WiX-users] InstallExecuteSequence: checking mode

2007-07-17 Thread Brian Simoneau
You don't need to use square brackets in the condition because properties are automatically resolved. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Ward Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:24 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforg

Re: [WiX-users] Feature installation condition

2007-07-17 Thread Brian Simoneau
TE_LOCAL. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lawrence Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 2:55 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Feature installation condition Hi all. Forgive me if this has been covered bef

Re: [WiX-users] unconditional full install on minor upgrade

2007-07-12 Thread Brian Simoneau
Try not setting REINSTALL and REINSTALLMODE. Those should only be necessary for minor updates, but you are trying to do a major update. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: Nitin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:49 AM To

Re: [WiX-users] unconditional full install on minor upgrade

2007-07-11 Thread Brian Simoneau
Versions 0.3.0 and 0.4.0 must have the same UpgradeCode but different ProductCodes. If you are seeing maintenance mode, then they probably have the same ProductCode. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nitin

Re: [WiX-users] Checking if an enivronment variable is defined

2007-06-25 Thread Brian Simoneau
Try instead. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Afshin Sepehri Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 1:51 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Checking if an enivronment

Re: [WiX-users] To get computer name

2007-06-14 Thread Brian Simoneau
Please include wix-users when you send messages. Usually a property is used in WiX by surrounding it with square brackets. So you would use [ComputerName]. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: X.Y. D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007

Re: [WiX-users] To get computer name

2007-06-14 Thread Brian Simoneau
Use the ComputerName property. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368009.aspx -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of X.Y. D Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:53 AM To: wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] Clear out directory before install?

2007-06-12 Thread Brian Simoneau
Why doesn't RemoveFile work? Did you set On="install"? -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Janulewicz Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 1:08 PM To: wix-users@lists.

Re: [WiX-users] Define constants not working with candle in 3.0.2921.0?

2007-06-07 Thread Brian Simoneau
Your ifdef should look like -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Fischer Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 2:44 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Define

Re: [WiX-users] Preselected is set to 1 during uninstall?

2007-06-01 Thread Brian Simoneau
I am not using the latest version of WiX 2.0, so I am not sure where else Preselected might be currently used. Making your own copy of ProgressDlg.wxs should work, but I wonder if the condition that is being used in the WiX ProgressDlg.wxs is not correct. -Brian Simoneau -Original

Re: [WiX-users] Preselected is set to 1 during uninstall?

2007-06-01 Thread Brian Simoneau
I think using /x to indicate uninstall will set REMOVE=ALL. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Wan-Calo Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 2:14 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net

[WiX-users] Setting permission of a shortcut

2007-05-31 Thread Brian Simoneau
Is there a way to set the permissions of a shortcut in WiX? I can see that the Permission element can be used on a File, but is there something available for a Shortcut? Brian Simoneau Software Developer Freedom Scientific

Re: [WiX-users] Help!!! Can't get Custom Action to launch EXE installedwith App

2007-05-30 Thread Brian Simoneau
Add Execute="deferred" to your CustomAction element. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 2:34 PM To: Brian Simoneau Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Help!!! Can&#x

Re: [WiX-users] Help!!! Can't get Custom Action to launch EXE installedwith App

2007-05-30 Thread Brian Simoneau
Your Custom Action has to be deferred. If it is immediate (the default), then it is run before the exe gets installed onto the system. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mikebartlett Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 12:57 PM To

Re: [WiX-users] Can I put preprocessor directly under Wix tag?

2007-05-23 Thread Brian Simoneau
That should be possible. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bei Liu (Volt) Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:52 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Can I put

Re: [WiX-users] Making a directory hidden

2007-05-22 Thread Brian Simoneau
We are using a custom action to make a directory hidden. I think there is only built-in support to make files hidden. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ccitt Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 2:23 PM To: wix-users

Re: [WiX-users] Installer not placing any files

2007-05-22 Thread Brian Simoneau
Yes, you can't define files to install in a Binary element. A binary can be used by the installer but is not installed on the system. You must be File elements as part of a Component. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Beha

Re: [WiX-users] Installer not placing any files

2007-05-22 Thread Brian Simoneau
You need to define File elements under each of those Components. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ccitt Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 1:05 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Installer not placing any

Re: [WiX-users] Making upgrades work without the msiexec command lines?

2007-05-17 Thread Brian Simoneau
Are you sure that it was doing a minor upgrade? A major upgrade doesn't require command line arguments, but the product code and version have to be changed, the upgrade code has to stay the same, and the Upgrade table has to be authored appropriately. -Brian Simoneau -Ori

Re: [WiX-users] Making upgrades work without the msiexec command lines?

2007-05-17 Thread Brian Simoneau
I think this is wishful thinking. A minor upgrade is going to require command line parameters for msiexec. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rory Clark Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:18 PM

Re: [WiX-users] Error when changing the compression

2007-05-17 Thread Brian Simoneau
Building in the WiX help. You can try reading that as well. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erich Buhler Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:13 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Error when changing the

Re: [WiX-users] Error when changing the compression

2007-05-17 Thread Brian Simoneau
es will be uncompressed. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erich Buhler Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:32 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Error when changing the compression Hi, thanks again! That'

Re: [WiX-users] Default feature state

2007-05-17 Thread Brian Simoneau
It should be set in the user interface. Look for "SetInstallLevel". -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: Simon Topley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:25 AM To: Brian Simoneau; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Default fea

Re: [WiX-users] Error when changing the compression

2007-05-17 Thread Brian Simoneau
That command line doesn't look correct. Why is the "msi" after the -l option? Is the log getting created? -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erich Buhler Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:12 A

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with condition statement under feature element

2007-05-17 Thread Brian Simoneau
components themselves. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Venkatesh Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 8:31 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Problem with condition

Re: [WiX-users] Default feature state

2007-05-17 Thread Brian Simoneau
The default state of a feature is based on the Feature Level. If the Feature's Level is greater than the INSTALLLEVEL property, then the feature is not selected by default. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon T

Re: [WiX-users] Error when changing the compression

2007-05-17 Thread Brian Simoneau
Creating an uncompressed version of an installer is not a requirement for creating a patch. You can perform an admin install of your package and then build the patch using the admin install image. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction = .VC Runtime Dependency?

2007-05-15 Thread Brian Simoneau
In the General Configuration Properties, you also need to set Use of MFC to Use MFC in a Static Library. That should get rid of the dependency and increase the size of the dll. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-26 Thread Brian Simoneau
A simple call to launch a message box would be MessageBox(NULL, _T("Custom action"), _T("Attach"), MB_OK); Note that this is not the correct way to show a message box to a user during installation, but for temporary debugging works fine. -Brian Simoneau -

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-26 Thread Brian Simoneau
launching the custom action, there may be a missing dependency. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 4:51 PM To: Brian Simoneau; WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-26 Thread Brian Simoneau
_T is a macro defined in tchar.h. I believe this was included in earlier Visual Studios because my custom actions were originally written in VS2003. It looks like __out and others are defined in sal.h. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-26 Thread Brian Simoneau
That code looks the same as what I am using except that I have _T() around my strings. Are you running your custom action immediate or deferred? -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-26 Thread Brian Simoneau
You have to call WcaInitialize in your method before you can call WcaLog. You also need to call WcaFinalize before you exit the method. So your last line could look something like: return WcaFinalize(ERROR_SUCCESS); -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [WiX-users] Logging in a custom action

2007-04-25 Thread Brian Simoneau
If you are writing a C++ custom action, then the WcaLog function in wcautil will write to the install log or show you how to do it yourself. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [WiX-users] Files not being wrapped up into installer

2007-02-20 Thread Brian Simoneau
Under the Package element, you should have Compressed='yes' instead of 'no'. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dave_c Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 11:37 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subjec

Re: [WiX-users] Affecting the registry during install and removal

2007-02-08 Thread Brian Simoneau
Based on the error message it looks like tallow does not support your wsc file. You may want to take a look at heat, which is part of WiX 3.0 and may do more than tallow. Otherwise, you will have to determine the registry entries yourself. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From

Re: [WiX-users] Affecting the registry during install and removal

2007-02-08 Thread Brian Simoneau
If the file is called file.dll and it is in the current directory, then tallow -s file.dll should work. You can use -nologo to skip printing the copyright information at the beginning. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: [WiX-users] Affecting the registry during install and removal

2007-02-07 Thread Brian Simoneau
Using self registration in an installer is not recommended. See the remarks for the SelfReg table. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/aa371608.aspx You can instead use tallow to extract the registry keys that are installed by SelfReg and add those registry keys to your installer. -Brian

Re: [WiX-users] Determine selected features from tree

2007-02-06 Thread Brian Simoneau
I think that !FeatureName is the current state of the feature and &FeatureName is the action to be performed. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Hamflett Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 4:30 AM To: wix-u

Re: [WiX-users] Rollback of Custom Action

2006-08-30 Thread Brian Simoneau
Title: Message Rollback actions must be sequenced before the action that could cause the failure.  It looks like you have the rollbacks actions defined after the install actions.   -Brian Simoneau -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [WiX-users] Write Autogenerated Product Id in an Ini File

2006-08-22 Thread Brian Simoneau
Try [ProductCode] instead. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of coolfishx Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 8:12 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Write Autogenerated Product Id in an Ini File

Re: [WiX-users] Write Autogenerated Product Id in an Ini File

2006-08-22 Thread Brian Simoneau
The Product ID is stored in the property ProductID. The Value attribute should be [ProductID]. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of coolfishx Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 4:53 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject

Re: [WiX-users] Large font in a SelectionTree

2006-08-09 Thread Brian Simoneau
Title: Message Do you mean that the system menu font is not overridable using Windows Installer or that there are no Windows APIs for changing it directly?   -Brian Simoneau -Original Message-From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:06

[WiX-users] Large font in a SelectionTree

2006-08-09 Thread Brian Simoneau
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Re: [WiX-users] Custom actions

2006-08-08 Thread Brian Simoneau
. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Sam Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 5:08 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom actions I made that change, that you suggested and now I get this error in the

Re: [WiX-users] Custom actions

2006-08-07 Thread Brian Simoneau
The Property attribute should contain the full path of the executable and the ExeCommand attribute should only have the command line parameters. Try -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Sam Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006

Re: [WiX-users] Creating msi from merge module fails

2006-07-13 Thread Brian Simoneau
When you don't have the dummy file and shortcut, does your msi have InstallFiles and CreateShortcuts in the InstallExecuteSequence? If not, then rather than adding a dummy file and shortcut, you can add those actions directly to your wxs. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [

Re: [WiX-users] candle.exe : error CNDL0001

2006-07-10 Thread Brian Simoneau
The syntax for using the localization string should be $(loc.UninstallAppShortcut). I'm guessing that !(loc.UninstallAppShortcut) is evaluating to the null value. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laurent Courbet

Re: [WiX-users] System32 directory

2006-07-07 Thread Brian Simoneau
Title: Message Try Id="SystemFolder" Name="System"> The SystemFolder property will automatically resolve to system32. -Brian Simoneau -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sherwood HuSent: Friday, J

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