[WiX-users] SelectTree mutually exclusive options

2009-08-22 Thread Slide
Is there a way when using the SelectTree component to have mutually exclusive components, such that if the user chooses one item, it automatically deselects another item from being installed? Thanks, slide -- slide-o-blog http://slide-o-blog.blogspot.com/ --

Re: [WiX-users] Does the WiX Build Use Any Type of Continuous Integration System?

2009-08-22 Thread Bob Arnson
jnewton wrote: > I like how the WiX build is setup with NAnt and so its a good reference point > for me when creating my automated builds. I was wondering if yall use any > type of Continuous Integration System like TeamCity to handle your builds? > Nope. 90+ percent of WiX checkins happen Thur

Re: [WiX-users] How To Create a shortcut with target variable that expands when selected

2009-08-22 Thread Bob Arnson
mfr...@fftw.com wrote: > What I want is to have the shortcut target end up being > "%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java -jar myfile.jar" > > I cannot create valid syntax for any of the options I have tried (ICE03). > Shortcut/@Target is formatted, so you can use the formatted [%VAR] syntax. -- sig://boB ht

Re: [WiX-users] SpawnDialog doesn't work

2009-08-22 Thread Bob Arnson
tcherkv wrote: >Event="SpawnDialog" Value="NoVcbDlg">1 > Sebastian's comment is right on: You're adding a control event but the existing control events still exist. See "Customizing Built-in WixUI Dialog Sets" in wix.chm for details. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ --

Re: [WiX-users] Actions from Execute sequence in UI

2009-08-22 Thread Bob Arnson
Sebastian Brand (Instyler Software) wrote: > Does anybody know why the following standard sequence actions are allowed in > the adminUIsequence table? I thought they should be authored into > adminEXECUTEsequence only. Wix though allows to add them to adminUIsequence > as well: > Weird. Can you

Re: [WiX-users] setupbld.exe: errors, messages not very clear "The process terminated unexpectedly"

2009-08-22 Thread Bob Arnson
Jason Woodall wrote: > Is there a way to catch specific messages? display internal UI messages, > etc? > No. There's no extensibility in setupexe, which is one of the thing Burn aims to implement. (Already does, actually.) -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -

Re: [WiX-users] WiX 3.0: Custom Action Type 50 - Read registry to uninstall the previous version of software

2009-08-22 Thread Bob Arnson
little.forest wrote: > The result is: nothing happened - the uninstaller didn't run. The first diagnostic step is almost always a verbose log. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Let Crystal Reports handle the rep

[WiX-users] cannot make powershell custom action work on 64-bit windows 2008 R2

2009-08-22 Thread Lian Jiang
Hi, I have a custom action where CAQuietExec calls a powershell command. For testing purpose, I just hardcoded the powershell.exe path. I also tried C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe but it gives the same error: MSI (s) (30:6C) [12:12:08:458]: Invoking remote

Re: [WiX-users] XmlConfig to write raw xml

2009-08-22 Thread Alex Ivanoff
Anyone? Is it possible>? -Original Message- From: Alex Ivanoff [mailto:alex.ivan...@shavlik.com] Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 10:33 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] XmlConfig to write raw xml Is it possible to use XmlConfig to write raw x

[WiX-users] Does the WiX Build Use Any Type of Continuous Integration System?

2009-08-22 Thread jnewton
I like how the WiX build is setup with NAnt and so its a good reference point for me when creating my automated builds. I was wondering if yall use any type of Continuous Integration System like TeamCity to handle your builds? Or is it more of a manual process where you just sync the make.bat file

Re: [WiX-users] Create any folder specified by user

2009-08-22 Thread Lian Jiang
Thanks very much Blair. -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 1:01 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Create any folder specified by user Place the user supplied path into a property that

Re: [WiX-users] Create any folder specified by user

2009-08-22 Thread Blair
Place the user supplied path into a property that matches the Directory/@Id that you want to have them supply. This is the mechanism by which the "standard" installer directories are populated. Look at the "Non-root Destination Directories" header on this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr

[WiX-users] Create any folder specified by user

2009-08-22 Thread Lian Jiang
Hi, Without using custom action, can I use Wix to declaratively create a folder whose path is specified by user during installation? For example, my application is installed in C:\program files\myapp, and the installer need to create a folder D:\anyfolder specified by the user during installat

Re: [WiX-users] Install File Shortcut based on registry value

2009-08-22 Thread Blair
A couple comments on what you have here: 1) Component/@Id and File/@Id values must be unique (it isn't obvious which feature you are including (the one from test2.wxs or test3.wxs) when you build. I'm surprised you are not getting an error. 2) The wix.chm file clearly describes the Condition elemen

Re: [WiX-users] How to work with ALLUSERS

2009-08-22 Thread Blair
CommonAppDir1 is under CommonAppDataFolder, right? I wonder if the ICE test is getting confused by also this directory being buried under ProgramMenuFolder? Change your directory structure (inside TARGETDIR/SourceDir) to: