According to the docs IniFile/@Directory "or any other property representing a full path." So you should be able to simply set a property in your custom action.
Neil -----Original Message----- From: Michael Scheepers [mailto:mscheep...@tool-links.de] Sent: 05 June 2012 08:23 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] String manipulation I try to explain. I want to change a third party ini file, which is located some where on the users machine and I like to use IniFile. The Directory attribute of the IniFile element must not be only a path as plain text string, but it requires the Id of a Directory element specified by a Directory tag or by a DirectorySearch. The only way to get the Directory in that case is a DirectorySearch. Unfortunally that 3rd party app doesn't store it's installpath to the registry but only an exec command with parameters. Is there a way to create "the result" of a directory search from inside of a custom action, so that IniFile Directory attribute can handle the path? Regards, Michel Am 04.06.2012 23:09, schrieb Rob Mensching: > Note: Compiler/Binder Extensions run at build time, not at install time. > I'm confused which you are attempting to do. > > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Michael Scheepers > <mscheep...@tool-links.de>wrote: > >> Hi Bob, >> >> thanks for reply. >> >> What I discovered seems to meet, what you are writing. I can't >> interrupt AppSearch with a custom action. >> >> Thats the point where I started thinking about a WixExtension. >> >> What I like to do is some kind of (imagine all xx are valid values): >> <Property Id='REGISTRY_SEARCH_RESULT'> >> <RegistrySearch Id='xx' Root='xx' Key='xx' Type'raw'/> >> </Property> >> >> <Property Id='DIRECTORY_SEARCH_RESULT'> >> <DirectorySearch Id='xx' AssingToProperty='yes' >> Path='$(manipulate([REGISTRY_SEARCH_RESULT])'/> >> </Property> >> >> So that the path provided for the directory search is adjusted in the >> maipulate function of an extension. I have to do this, because I'll >> get 'Some/Path/To/Executable.exe -param' from the registry search but >> I only need the part 'Some/Path/To' in the directory search. >> >> Is there a way to do this at all? >> >> Regards, Michel >> >> Am 03.06.2012 19:13, schrieb Bob Arnson: >>> On 01-Jun-12 10:09, Michael Scheepers wrote: >>>> Now I think a small extension is what I need, but I am not sure if >>>> the extension is packaged to the msi or is only used at compile >>>> time (when calling candle / light) or also at runtime when it is required. >>> It can be both but nothing will allow you to add behavior to >>> built-in MSI functionality. 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