Re: [WiX-users] Change font size in RTF display of ScrollableText (LicenseAgreementDlg)

2009-03-30 Thread Tom Kazimiers
Sascha, thanks for your reply. I already read somewhere that "modern" RTF editors maybe not work with WiX. So, like you suggested, I tryed it with WordPad - but this did not work either. The display of the text is no problem at all - it gets shown. Currently to font sie is about 10pt - which I wan

Re: [WiX-users] General Wix questions

2009-03-30 Thread Sascha Beaumont
Hi Louis, I'm a relatively "new" WiX user (only a month or two) and I was thinking along the same lines when I first took a look at WiX for use in our projects last year. The main thing is that InstallShield doesn't require an understanding of MSI technology to create MSI based installers. WiX doe

Re: [WiX-users] Change font size in RTF display of ScrollableText (LicenseAgreementDlg)

2009-03-30 Thread Sascha Beaumont
Windows Installer uses the Windows rich-edit control, which doesn't support "modern" RTF that Word generates so you will need to save the file from within Wordpad rather than a more feature rich editor. We use a license agreement in 8pt font and I'm not sure if you'd want to go any smaller than tha

Re: [WiX-users] Getting Error "A reference to ... could not be added. Make sure its a valid WiX reference" When Using Votive

2009-03-30 Thread Jason Ginchereau
You extension probably has some dependencies on assemblies or assembly versions that are not found. Try writing a little test program to call Assembly.LoadFrom() on your extension, and see what exception you get. (I know, it would have been nice if Votive reported those exception details to you

Re: [WiX-users] Heat missing some RegistryValue elements (Programmable) from VB6 code?

2009-03-30 Thread Roy Abou Assaly
Yes I do. I have sent it as an attachment to your x2systems email address. Thanks! Roy On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Neil Sleightholm (via Nabble) < ml-user+58265-122838...@n2.nabble.com > wrote: > Do you have a DLL you could share that shows the problem? > > Neil > > -Original Message

Re: [WiX-users] Heat missing some RegistryValue elements (Programmable) from VB6 code?

2009-03-30 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Do you have a DLL you could share that shows the problem? Neil -Original Message- From: Roy Abou Assaly [mailto:royass...@gmail.com] Sent: 30 March 2009 21:02 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Heat missing some RegistryValue elements (Programmable) from VB6 code?

[WiX-users] Heat missing some RegistryValue elements (Programmable) from VB6 code?

2009-03-30 Thread Roy Abou Assaly
Hi, I'm running heat (WiX 3.0.4923.0) to harvest some DLLs. I don't have the version that I was using before, but I know it was working before I had upgraded sometime in the Fall. I noticed that Programmable is being ommitted: This key existed in our December build, and now, in many mor

[WiX-users] Getting Error "A reference to ... could not be added. Make sure its a valid WiX reference" When Using Votive

2009-03-30 Thread jnewton
So I built an extension on one machine against build 4917 and took this assembly to another machine with the same build version. When I tried to add a reference to this extension, I got the error shown in the attached picture. Now, I have found that it sometimes doesn't load on my dev machin

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional installation of different versions of a DLL

2009-03-30 Thread Lars von Wedel
Hello, Would it be a better idea would be to run some custom action that actually makes a copy of the correct DLL with the desired name? That file could be removed as an orphaned file on uninstall, I suppose. Lars Am 30.03.2009 um 07:41 schrieb : > They would either need to have different

[WiX-users] Custom Action Only in an MSI

2009-03-30 Thread Colin Fox
Hi Everyone. I'm trying to build an MSI who's only purpose is to run a javascript file. I'm installing a solution into a sharepoint installation, and all I need the javascript for is to run stsadm. I would also like to run another javascript calling stsadm on removal. So basically I'm trying to

Re: [WiX-users] Register com objects

2009-03-30 Thread Karl Denning
Hi Don't use self-registering because it is not transactional. Instead, use the TypeLib and Interface tables karl Dear Sandun, I think that you can write for the DLL in question. Having a number more than 0 makes it run regsvr32.exe on the DLL, so if your COM object can self-register, that

Re: [WiX-users] LGHT0204 error when string contains '\' - known issue?

2009-03-30 Thread Karl Denning
This is expected behavior. Only one directory per Directory table record is permitted. You are trying to specify two. Hi, I'm using WiX version 3.0.4513.0. Our installer allows for a .wxl- specified installation location using the following tagset: InstallLocation where InstallLocation i

[WiX-users] LGHT0204 error when string contains '\' - known issue?

2009-03-30 Thread Matt Ryan
Hi, I'm using WiX version 3.0.4513.0. Our installer allows for a .wxl- specified installation location using the following tagset: InstallLocation where InstallLocation is a relative directory to be used for the installation path. I'm getting the following error when running light.exe if I

Re: [WiX-users] Transparent launch application checkbox on exitdialog.

2009-03-30 Thread Alex Ivanoff
Another workaround is to change bitmap size and redo pages. This is what we did. -Original Message- From: Yan Sklyarenko [mailto:y...@sitecore.net] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 03:26 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Transparent launch app

Re: [WiX-users] Authoring Conditions

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Urman
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 23:32, wrote: > Is there a primary on how to author conditions.  I've seen some examples > of conditions, but don't understand the syntax and overall concepts. Please see the MSDN or SDK documentation for "Conditional Statement Syntax." -- Michael Urman ---

[WiX-users] Optionally Removing Bitmaps from UI

2009-03-30 Thread jnewton
I would like to be able to set some property and have this affect whether or not the bitmaps are displayed in the UI. Our company has a framework that we already use which has common UI, but I wanted to have a basic UI that would display if my end-user happened to click on my individual UI. I

Re: [WiX-users] Register com objects

2009-03-30 Thread Roger I.W. Spooner
Dear Sandun, I think that you can write for the DLL in question. Having a number more than 0 makes it run regsvr32.exe on the DLL, so if your COM object can self-register, that should do it. The number (1 in my example) is the cost for the progress bar, in nominal bytes. It doesn't really ma

Re: [WiX-users] Transparent launch application checkbox on exit dialog.

2009-03-30 Thread Yan Sklyarenko
The checkbox can't be made transparent: http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson8.php#8.6 (see the very bottom of 8.6 paragraph). A quote from there: "The only workaround is to reduce the width of the checkbox to the actual box itself and to place an additional static text (these can be made transpar