You could do something like this: <CustomAction Id="RunBat_Cmd" Property="RunBat" Value=""[SystemFolder]cmd.exe" /D /E:ON /V:ON /C "[#batchfile.bat]""/>
I used the /D /E:ON and /V:ON in order to get a well-known environment without any surprises (hence turning off auto-run commands and turning extensions and delayed evaluation on). In general, the batch file should be written in such a way that it does not depend upon anything beyond the environment you can control. You can, of course, pass additional arguments on the command line (be sure to put them inside the " entities). <CustomAction Id="RunBat" BinaryKey="WixCA" DllEntry="CAQuietExec" Execute="deferred" Return="check"/> CAQuietExec will hide the command window entirely. If the batch file is only for information gathering, then you can execute in immediate mode. Be sure to schedule RunBat_Cmd before RunBat and before InstallInitialize. Thanks, Thomas S. Trias Senior Developer Artizan Internet Services http://www.artizan.com/ -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WiX-users] Run a .bat file minimized? From: Tabmow <tabmo...@gmail.com> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 4/14/2009 10:01 PM > Hi all, > In our installer (using Wix 2.x on Win2003), we have to invoke a couple > .bat files for various and sundry things. When they run, they launch a dos > shell which goes above our install gui. Is there any way to have it > spawned 'minimized' at least so there's no distraction during install? ie. > similar to what 'start /min my.bat' does. I've tried just adding 'start > /min' in front of my .bat invocation in my custom action, but that gave an > error. Does anyone have any suggestions? > > Thanks. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
