ok, I've just found this, I will have to update my WiX installation: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3419080&group_id=105970&atid=642714
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Peter Bulyaki <peter.buly...@gmail.com>wrote: > I am trying this now, but it seems that [ProgramFilesFolder] is resolved > to an empty string :( > > <Variable Name="InstallFolder" Type="string" > Value="[ProgramFilesFolder]\$(env.MANUFACTURER)" /> > > ... > > <MsiPackage Id="MyPackage" Compressed="no" EnableFeatureSelection="no" > Name="MyPackage.msi" Cache="no" > SourceFile="c:\path\to\MyPackage.msi"> > <MsiProperty Name='TARGETDIR' Value='[InstallFolder]' /> > </MsiPackage> > > So is this a missing feature at the moment? > > Peter > > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Peter Bulyaki <peter.buly...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> First I thought that this is an obvious question and someone asked it >> already, but could not find an answer anywhere. Could someone please let me >> know if the "Install location" textbox is setting any WixVariable or >> Property at all? And if I could get FileSystemAutoComplete="yes" working >> somehow? I do not have time to create my own bootstrapper at the moment, I >> am stuck with the default one in WiX 3.6, but it would be very nice if I >> could get this working. My only other option would be to hide the "Options" >> button. >> >> I know that using this install location is not something trivial, >> probably I would need to propagate a property towards my MSI packages >> through <MsiProperty>, and then let the MSI decide what it does with it, >> but at the moment I do not know where to write the default path to (the >> textbox is emtpy), and where to read the modified path from. >> >> Cheers: >> Peter >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
