Re: [WiX-users] Trying to preserve installation location
Personally, I would just read the 4 pages in the MSI SDK on Upgrades a few times. I think you only care about Major Upgrades and I think most of hte information is captured in one single page in the SDK. But it is up to you. If you don't like MSI, you won't like WiX since all WiX does is build MSI packages. mscheuner wrote: Rob Mensching-4 wrote: Have you read the MSI SDK about major upgrades? It sounds like you're not using the UpgradeCode to its full potential. In what way?? I haven't read the MSI SDK docs - but I did read Phil Wilson's Definitive Guide to Windows Installer - Chapter 6, on Upgrades. Quite honestly, still sounds pretty Greek to me - I don't like MSI, I think it's overly complicated, and way too much overkill for 90% of all installs. But I have this misbehaving MSI and my boss wants a solution ASAP :-( so I'm trying to struggle through learning as much as I absolutely need to understand what's happening, and trying to figure out the easiest ways to achieve what I need to achieve. Any further hints would be most welcome! My solution now is to store the install location into the registry and reading it from there again when installing a new version (using a major upgrade) since that information seems to survive the major upgrade. Seems and feels a bit like a kludge - but it works ok for now. Marc - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Trying to preserve installation location
Rob Mensching-4 wrote: Have you read the MSI SDK about major upgrades? It sounds like you're not using the UpgradeCode to its full potential. In what way?? I haven't read the MSI SDK docs - but I did read Phil Wilson's Definitive Guide to Windows Installer - Chapter 6, on Upgrades. Quite honestly, still sounds pretty Greek to me - I don't like MSI, I think it's overly complicated, and way too much overkill for 90% of all installs. But I have this misbehaving MSI and my boss wants a solution ASAP :-( so I'm trying to struggle through learning as much as I absolutely need to understand what's happening, and trying to figure out the easiest ways to achieve what I need to achieve. Any further hints would be most welcome! My solution now is to store the install location into the registry and reading it from there again when installing a new version (using a major upgrade) since that information seems to survive the major upgrade. Seems and feels a bit like a kludge - but it works ok for now. Marc -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Trying-to-preserve-installation-location-tf4675773.html#a13475504 Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Trying to preserve installation location
I found the problem: in order to get the double-click the MSI to install metaphor working, we're always creating a new ProductID with each build - the minor updates (leaving the ProductID intact and just updating the Version attribute) don't work, since double-clicking on such a MSI will only result in a dialog saying there's already another version of this product installed; please uninstall first. (or is there a trick how to get this to work properly?? Even the Tramontana WiX tutorial says you have to use unwieldy command-line parameters for MSIEXEC to get it to work properlyunbelievable!). Thus, since the install location is stored PER PRODUCT, the new MSI won't find any pre-installed product and thus won't find the previous product's installation location (at least that's what I'm guessing, from the logs). Also, if you uninstall the old product version first, and then run the minor upgrade MSI, obviously the old product and thus its install location with it are gone - so that doesn't work either. Any more ideas?? Doesn't seem like all that much to ask, no? Product A v1.00 should store its install location, and a minor upgrade to v1.01 should work by double-clicking on a MSI (no crazy command line) and should just nicely upgrade in the folder chosen by the user when installing 1.00 heck, even my rudimentary script-based install can do that! And Windows Installer can't??? Sheesh... Thanks! Marc -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Trying-to-preserve-installation-location-tf4675773.html#a13452248 Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Trying to preserve installation location
Thanks for your response, Richard Are you setting the property before the user has a chance to specify the install location? You need to set the property after any changes to the install location are made. I'm trying to store the install location the user has picked into ARPINSTALLLOCATION using a custom action which gets fired After=InstallFiles - I would assume by then the proper install directory has been picked and set, no?? CustomAction Id='SAVEINSTALLLOCATION' Property=ARPINSTALLLOCATION Value=[INSTALLDIR] / InstallExecuteSequence Custom After='InstallFiles' Action='SAVEINSTALLLOCATION' / /InstallExecuteSequence Do I need to do something when installing a new version in order to *find* this install location? Thanks again! Marc -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Trying-to-preserve-installation-location-tf4675773.html#a13445820 Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Trying to preserve installation location
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], mscheuner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for your response, Richard Are you setting the property before the user has a chance to specify the install location? You need to set the property after any changes to the install location are made. I'm trying to store the install location the user has picked into ARPINSTALLLOCATION using a custom action which gets fired After=InstallFiles - I would assume by then the proper install directory has been picked and set, no?? CustomAction Id='SAVEINSTALLLOCATION' Property=ARPINSTALLLOCATION Value=[INSTALLDIR] / InstallExecuteSequence Custom After='InstallFiles' Action='SAVEINSTALLLOCATION' / /InstallExecuteSequence Do I need to do something when installing a new version in order to *find* this install location? I believe you'll need to set this before the RegisterProduct action, which takes care of all the Add/Remove Program stuff, but the documentation isn't explicit on exactly which standard action consumes this property. When you run your install, what does the verbose log say when your action is run? It should have a property change notification in the log. -- The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline -- DirectX 9 draft available for download http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html Legalize Adulthood! http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Trying to preserve installation location
Folks, I'm trying to preserve the installation location that the user has picked during initial install so that a subsequent install will always go to that very same location. According to my clever book on Windows Installer, I need to use a type 51 custom action to set the ARPINSTALLLOCATION property to the location where the app is installed. I'm trying to achieve this with this snippet in WiX (v2) - doesn't seem to work, though :-( InstallExecuteSequence Custom Action=SaveTargetDir After=InstallValidate / /InstallExecuteSequence CustomAction Id=SaveTargetDir Property=ARPINSTALLLOCATION Value=[TARGETDIR] / When I goo look in the registry, a totally wrong path is being stored in the InstallLocation property in my app's key. Why?? Any ideas, hints ? What am I missing here?? Thanks! Marc -- Marc ScheunerMay The Source Be With You! Berne, Switzerland mscheuner -at- mvps.org - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Trying to preserve installation location
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marc Scheuner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I goo look in the registry, a totally wrong path is being stored in the InstallLocation property in my app's key. Why?? Are you setting the property before the user has a chance to specify the install location? You need to set the property after any changes to the install location are made. -- The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline -- DirectX 9 draft available for download http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html Legalize Adulthood! http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
