What was weird was the inconsistency - sometimes it opened in the foreground
and sometimes it didn't. I switched over from a type 50 custom action to a
type 34 and used write (wordpad) instead of notepad. Seems to work
now. Thanks for the help.
Here's the code in case it helps anyone.
<UI>
<Publish Dialog="ExitDialog"
Control="Finish"
Event="DoAction"
Value="ViewReadme">WIXUI_EXITDIALOGOPTIONALCHECKBOX =
1</Publish>
</UI>
<CustomAction Id="ViewReadme"
Directory="INSTALLDIR"
ExeCommand="[SystemFolder]write.exe
"[INSTALLFOLDER]readme.txt""
Return="asyncNoWait" />
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Alec Taylor <alec.tayl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Or you could simply run on finish?
>
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:05 AM, Wilson, Phil <phil.wil...@invensys.com>
> wrote:
> > This is usually a losing game.
> >
> > http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2009/02/20/9435239.aspx plus
> discussion
> >
> > Can you arrange to have the install complete while Notepad continues to
> run? If you launch it completely asynchronously the install will go away and
> leave it there.
> >
> > Phil Wilson
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lisa Gracias [mailto:lisathelugubri...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 12:15 AM
> > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> > Subject: [WiX-users] Launch notepad in foreground
> >
> > In my msi I have a custom action that launches notepad.exe with a Readme
> > document after installation is complete. Sometimes notepad launches in
> the
> > background, behind other windows. Is there any way to force it to the
> > foreground?
> > I found this question asked earlier but there were no replies.
> >
> http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg10189.html
> >
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