Rob and Jason, Thanks for your prompt replies. It looks like I will have to write a DLL CustomAction to set a Property's value and based on the Property's value set I can sequence the UI dialogs or the actions to be executed in my Wix script.
Ted -----Original Message----- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 9/29/2006 8:00 PM To: Theodore Kuo (Siemens Business Services Inc); Jason Swager; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: Re: [WiX-users] How to check for returned value of a call to app.exe You can't do that. I suggest reading the documentation that Jason pointed out. It explains how limited exe CustomActions can be. If you really want that much control over your installation, you should write a DLL CustomAction. Those have the ability to be more robust. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Theodore Kuo (Siemens Business Services Inc) Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 17:06 To: Jason Swager; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to check for returned value of a call to app.exe Thanks, Jason. I looked up the information in the link but couldn't find anything that would be helpful to me. Suppose I want write an installer wix file that executes app.exe sometime during installation. If app.exe returns 0 it proceeds with the installation, if it returns 1, it opens dialog1, and if it returns 2, it opens dialog2. I know how you can sequence dialogs and custom actions with <InstallUISequence> and <InstallExecuteSequence> respectively, but I'm not sure how to handle the case of how to continue sequencing upon different conditions returned by a call to an .exe file. Any help where I can find a simple example on this will be much appreciated. Ted From: Jason Swager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 3:23 PM To: Theodore Kuo (Siemens Business Services Inc); wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to check for returned value of a call to app.exe When using Return="check", the executable should return zero for success and non-zero for failure. I don't think there is a way to respond to different returns - if it fails, your install halts. If it succeeds, the install continues. If you need to pass information back from the executable, consider writing a custom action that can modify properties. See the MSI documention for additional details: <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/ custom_action_reference.asp> "Theodore Kuo (Siemens Business Services Inc)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm still new to Wix, so I'm sorry if my question may seem rudimentary to you. I'm trying to get Wix to execute an application that returns a status (i.e. OK or an error code), and have Wix checked on the return status and perform further action based on the returned status. I used custom action to execute the application as follow: <CustomAction Id="ApplicationId" Directory="INSTALLDIR" ExeCommand="app.exe" Execute="commit" Impersonate="yes" Return="check"></CustomAction> I'm not sure what the Return value should be (is "check" correct?). Now how do I check for the returned status of app.exe and perform further actions? Your quick reply will be much appreciated as I need to get this done by end of the day. Thanks, Ted ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV___ ____________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
