The Id of the property with the command line needs to match the Id of the
custom action you are executing. Also, I don't think CAQuietExec how to execute
non-executable files. In my experience you need to provide the executable to
execute first _in quotes_ before any arguments you want to pass to the
executable.
In the case of opening a file in notepad you would want to use something like
this:
<SetProperty Id="QtExecExample" Value=""[SystemFolder]\notepad.exe"
[DirectoryId]\foo.txt" Before="QtExecExample"/>
<CustomAction Id="QtExecExample" BinaryKey="WixCA" DllEntry="CAQuietExec"
Execute="immediate" Return="check"/>
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="QtExecExample" After="AppSearch"/>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
The above is just an example, you'll need to change SetProperty/@Value to what
you need. I think Directory Ids and File Ids are not available until later in
the sequence but I forget the specific action that needs to complete before
they resolve correctly.
You'll want to look at the documentation for <SetProperty/> to learn more about
it. It schedules a custom action to set the QtExecExample property that will
contain the command line to execute.
I think you'll need to use AppSearch to find the perl executable and then use
<SetProperty/> to set the command line using the perl executable to execute
your script.
Edwin G. Castro
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dmuller720 [mailto:dmuller...@comcast.net]
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 7:35 AM
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Perl Script on initialization
>
> yes, perl is in my path, but I do not think that it is a problem with perl, I
> think
> that it is something that I am not doing right in Wix.
>
> So me and my team have sort of refocused and we are at the moment, just
> trying to make wix open notepad.exe after AppSearch.
>
> ...
> <Property Id="QtExecCmdLine" Value="dir > foo.txt"/>
> <CustomAction Id="QtExecExample" BinaryKey="WixCA"
> DllEntry="CAQuietExec" Execute="immediate" Return="check"/>
> </Product>
> <Fragment>
> <InstallExecuteSequence>
> <Custom Action="QtExecExample" After="AppSearch"/>
> </InstallExecuteSequence>
> </Fragment>
> ...
>
> Are we on the right track?
>
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