Hi Bob, This did work, although it then found (and used) the first instance of cmd.exe that it came across.
The solution to use a custom action to define the SystemFolder property and use that ended up working just fine. Thanks, Alicia On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> wrote: > Alicia Holloway wrote: > > I have a Wix project in which I am trying to add a shortcut to a command > > prompt which calls a batch file as a command line argument. With the > code I > > have so far (see below), I can get it to work on Windows XP only, because > > the environment variable it's using to find the cmd.exe program is > > determined at compile time (and it's being compiled on an XP). > > > > Use a FileSearch instead, then reference that property in your Shortcut > target. > > -- > sig://boB > http://joyofsetup.com/ > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- Alicia Holloway Software Engineer Sound Design Technologies, Ltd. 905-635-0804 x3056 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
