This should just work. I'm guessing you've put the Variable in a Fragment
that isn't getting pulled in. Does the variable show up at the end of the
log?
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 5:17 PM, roberthyang <robert_y...@agilent.com> wrote:
> This worked fine for us inside OnDetectComplete on Wix 3.8 (released
> version). For example :
>
> // Check if Acrobat is installed by reading variable.
> LPWSTR sczAcrobatValue = NULL;
> BalGetStringVariable(L"AcrobatInstalled", &sczAcrobatValue);
> BalExitOnFailure(hr, "Failed to get AcrobatInstalled burn
> variable.");
>
> // Show warning state if Acrobat variable is empty.
> if ((sczAcrobatValue == NULL) || (wcslen(sczAcrobatValue) == 0))
> {
> hr = m_pEngine->SetVariableString(L"AcrobatWarningState",
> L"");
> BalExitOnFailure(hr, "Failed to set AcrobatWarningState burn
> variable.");
> }
>
> AcrobatInstalled is read using Util: registry searches, and
> AcrobatWarningState just controls visibility of a warning text box in our
> custom theme. What specifically "doesn't work" ?
>
>
> David Burson wrote
> > In the bundle I’ve tried
> > <Variable Name="MyVariable" Value="MyValue" />
> > , and tried reading it in bafunctions.dll with
> > LPWSTR my_variable = NULL;
> > BalGetStringVariable(L"MyVariable", &my_variable);
> >
> > But that doesn’t work. Is there any way to do it?
> >
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