In your settings for heat, you should use automatic component guids (they come out as Guid="*") and you should setup a component group for your PDF files (then you can simply refer to them from your feature using the ComponentGroupRef element).
-----Original Message----- From: Lukas Haase [mailto:lukasha...@gmx.at] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 1:29 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Automatically include arbitrary files Hi, My setup project consists of a bunch of "static" files (application, DLL), a huge databasefile and a vast amount of PDF files. The PDF files are very volatile, they change from update to update (some are removed, some are added but no of them are changed). As they are many files I would really prefer to add them automatically. I looked at the include-directive from the preprocessor but I can't find out how to automate. I looked at fragments and played around with "heat". In general, this would work. heat generates a wxs file containing a list of all pdf files. However, I have all of them to add to the <Feature>-List in my main file as <ComponentRef>-element! Isn't there a way to include the whole fragment and/or directory? Even if this would work, I still have to manually add/remove the items in the pdfs.wxs. It would be really great if I could just put the current PDFs in the diretory "pdfs" and all of them are just added to the MSI. However, if I run heat multiple times I clearly get different GUIDs for the PDFs on each call. Does it matter when the GUIDs of the files change? Especially for the update? Is there any chance to automate this process consistently? Best Regards, Luke ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
