Am 22.07.2010 00:07, schrieb Lukas Haase:
> Dear Blair,
>
> I do not fully understand. You mean the -ag switch?
>
> But then on every compile the PDF files get a different GUID, don't
> they? Then back to the original question: Does it matter in ANY way if
> they get a different GUID on upgrades?
>
> I.e. In a few months I will make the first upgrade for for my product.
> Most likely a few PDFs will be removed, a few will be added. Is there
> any concern with your proposed method?
Dear Blair,
Sorry, I forget one additional question:
Heat generates the <File>-Elements as:
<File Id="fil6CD3EB10EF7C12F5645E92DEC7FA408E" KeyPath="yes"
Source="SourceDir\04156.pdf" />
^^^^^^^^^
but in fact I placed the PDFs (relative to the directory from where I
call candle/light) in
src\INSTALLDIR\pdf
Is there any way to replace SourceDir with src\INSTALLDIR\pdf
automatically? Or is there another solution?
Similar the directory with is created as:
<DirectoryRef Id="TARGETDIR">
^^^^^^^^^
<Directory Id="dir92AEA0E44CFC478DB41459D407BB54A9" Name="pdf" />
</DirectoryRef>
But in fact it should be <DirectoryRef Id="INSTALLDIR"> in order to work...
Thank you very much.
Regards,
Luke
> Am 21.07.2010 23:41, schrieb Blair:
>> 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
>>
>>
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