1. You can try code like this:
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir" >
<Directory Id="INSTALL_LOCATION" Name="MyTool" FileSource="." >
....
</Directory>
</Directory>
<Property Id="WIXUI_INSTALLDIR" Value="INSTALL_LOCATION" />
<UIRef Id="WixUI_PaymentSystem" />
Actually I'm not sure whether this code will refer to MyTool on drive C:
or on another drive.
2. How to skip dialog see
http://www.wixwiki.com/index.php?title=UiExtension#Adding_a_Custom_or_Skipping_Dialogs
and official documentation at
http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/WixUI_customizations.htm
Briefly: you can add Publish/@Order attribute.
3. About KeyPath attribute (also applicable to File):
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2003043/what-is-the-wix-keypath-attribute
Hope this will be helpful.
Ilya Serbis
On 23.05.2010 21:12, Martin Maurer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i have started to use WiX a few hours ago. It is a great tool, but meanwhile
> i am blocked by some points where i don't find answers:
>
>
> 1) I use WixUI_InstallDir and want to suggest a certain path (e.g.
> c:\MyTool\binary instead of c:\program files\MyTool ). I know this is perhaps
> non-standard, but i have a different tool (not written by me), which want to
> have my installation at this position. How i can give the user a different
> path ? I already tried different ways, like the following ones but was not
> yet successful:
>
> <Property Id="WIXUI_INSTALLDIR" Value="APPLICATIONROOTDIRECTORY" />
>
> <!--
> <Property Id="WIXUI_INSTALLDIR" Value="c:\MyTool" />
> <Property Id="UI_CONFIG_INPUT_DIR" Value="C:\\MyTool\\" />
> -->
>
> <!--
> <UIRef Id="WixUI_InstallDir"/>
> -->
>
> <UI Id="WixUI_InstallDir">
>
> Is the right way (instead of doing the above not working changes) to define
> the directories directly at new non-standard position, something like
>
> <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
> <Directory Id="MySpecialFolder" Name="c:\">
> <Directory Id="APPLICATIONROOTDIRECTORY" Name="MyTool">
> <Directory Id="APPLICATIONBINARYDIRECTORY" Name="binary"/>
> </Directory>
> </Directory>
> <Directory Id="ProgramMenuFolder">
> <Directory Id="ApplicationProgramsFolder" Name="MyTool"/>
> </Directory>
> </Directory>
>
> But this seems not to work.
>
>
> 2) In general what i want to do is a WelcomeDlg, LicenseAgreement, then start
> installation and a final dialog, that installation was successful.
> I started with WixUI_Minimal, but there i start directly with a special
> LicenseAgreement (which looks different and i don't want it) and WelcomeDlg
> is also missing.
> I took WixUI_InstallDir, but I want to skip "InstallDirDlg", perhaps also
> "VerifyReadyDlg", so the user has no chance to change the path. But i want to
> keep the other dialogs.
> Is this the correct way ? How can i do it ?
>
> What i tried so far:
>
> <UI Id="WixUI_InstallDir">
> ...
>
> <Publish Dialog="WelcomeDlg" Control="Next" Event="NewDialog"
> Value="LicenseAgreementDlg">1</Publish>
>
> <Publish Dialog="LicenseAgreementDlg" Control="Back"
> Event="NewDialog" Value="WelcomeDlg">1</Publish>
> <Publish Dialog="LicenseAgreementDlg" Control="Next"
> Event="NewDialog" Value="InstallDirDlg">LicenseAccepted = "1"</Publish>
>
> I changed "InstallDirDlg" to "VerifyReadyDlg" and is almost looks like i want.
> But when i press "Back" on "VerifyReadyDlg", i am back to "InstallDirDlg"
> instead of LicenseAgreementDlg (or WelcomeDlg is also ok).
> I tried removing all "InstallDirDlg", but then i get error messages.
> I tried removing all "InstallDirDlg" and "VerifyReadyDlg", but then how do i
> start installation of files itself ?
> Just for reference, here is the rest of my code (mainly a copy of
> WixUI_InstallDir)
>
> <Publish Dialog="InstallDirDlg" Control="Back" Event="NewDialog"
> Value="LicenseAgreementDlg">1</Publish>
> <Publish Dialog="InstallDirDlg" Control="Next"
> Event="SetTargetPath" Value="[WIXUI_INSTALLDIR]" Order="1">1</Publish>
> <Publish Dialog="InstallDirDlg" Control="Next" Event="DoAction"
> Value="WixUIValidatePath" Order="2">NOT WIXUI_DONTVALIDATEPATH</Publish>
> <Publish Dialog="InstallDirDlg" Control="Next"
> Event="SpawnDialog" Value="InvalidDirDlg" Order="3"><![CDATA[NOT
> WIXUI_DONTVALIDATEPATH AND WIXUI_INSTALLDIR_VALID<>"1"]]></Publish>
> <Publish Dialog="InstallDirDlg" Control="Next" Event="NewDialog"
> Value="VerifyReadyDlg" Order="4">WIXUI_DONTVALIDATEPATH OR
> WIXUI_INSTALLDIR_VALID="1"</Publish>
> <Publish Dialog="InstallDirDlg" Control="ChangeFolder"
> Property="_BrowseProperty" Value="[WIXUI_INSTALLDIR]" Order="1">1</Publish>
> <Publish Dialog="InstallDirDlg" Control="ChangeFolder"
> Event="SpawnDialog" Value="BrowseDlg" Order="2">1</Publish>
>
> <Publish Dialog="VerifyReadyDlg" Control="Back"
> Event="NewDialog" Value="InstallDirDlg" Order="1">NOT Installed</Publish>
> <Publish Dialog="VerifyReadyDlg" Control="Back"
> Event="NewDialog" Value="MaintenanceTypeDlg" Order="2">Installed</Publish>
>
> <Publish Dialog="MaintenanceWelcomeDlg" Control="Next"
> Event="NewDialog" Value="MaintenanceTypeDlg">1</Publish>
>
> <Publish Dialog="MaintenanceTypeDlg" Control="RepairButton"
> Event="NewDialog" Value="VerifyReadyDlg">1</Publish>
> <Publish Dialog="MaintenanceTypeDlg" Control="RemoveButton"
> Event="NewDialog" Value="VerifyReadyDlg">1</Publish>
> <Publish Dialog="MaintenanceTypeDlg" Control="Back"
> Event="NewDialog" Value="MaintenanceWelcomeDlg">1</Publish>
>
> <Property Id="ARPNOMODIFY" Value="1" />
> </UI>
>
> <UIRef Id="WixUI_Common" />
>
> 3) What is "KeyPath" ? When i create entries in the registry, some (first ?
> but multiple times ?) has "KeyPath" inside, e.g.
>
> <RegistryValue Type="string" Name="MyString" Value="MyContent" KeyPath="yes"
> />
>
> When do i need to use it, when not ? For what is it for ? Some kind of index
> / base for something ?
>
> 4) When creating a shortcut (i took an example from delivered WiX help file
> and modified it), there is the following line:
>
> <RegistryValue Root="HKCU" Key="Software\MyTool" Name="installed"
> Type="integer" Value="1" KeyPath="yes"/>
>
> For what is it ? Is the Name (="installed") relevant or can i take every name
> (e.g. wxs_installed) ? I ask, because my tool has a registry entry, with same
> name (but string) and different content. So i must change the one or the
> other to avoid a conflict...
>
>
> So far for now !
>
> Best regards and many thanks for your help !
>
> Martin
>
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