Re: [WiX-users] SwapRunFromCD And SwapRunFromNet - What is it and How to Use ?

2015-03-20 Thread Marco Tognacci
Thanks for your support,the Media element I think is only to create an msi package.I want not to separate the single msi but to have the Burn bundle that can load msi packages from 2 different disks. Yes, I have seen the OnResolveSource (or ther ResolveSource event) called on the application eng

Re: [WiX-users] SwapRunFromCD And SwapRunFromNet - What is it and How to Use ?

2015-03-20 Thread Phill Hogland
I think you are looking for this feature. I experimented with it some time ago, I but don't recall too much. We decided to host the packages on a web site which makes my bundle distributable very small. As Sean indicated in On

Re: [WiX-users] SwapRunFromCD And SwapRunFromNet - What is it and How to Use ?

2015-03-20 Thread Marco Tognacci
AHahah, very very Funny... I'm struggling to make a fully working setup using WiX, searching steadily all around the web, looking for a solution to the lack of documentation around WiX (apart of basic setup examples). I'm sorry if my questions sometimes seem so silly, but in this case I don't re

Re: [WiX-users] Create text file

2015-03-20 Thread Phill Hogland
I started researching a similar problem related to a java app that required the setup to modify java.props files, which are similar to ini files without sections. I tabled that effort for now, as there is a higher level business discussion about terminating the java app and replacing it with a new

Re: [WiX-users] SwapRunFromCD And SwapRunFromNet - What is it and How to Use ?

2015-03-20 Thread Jeremiahf
LOL!!! On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Rob Mensching wrote: > http://tinyurl.com/mfkhwxc > > > (Sorry, couldn't resist) > _ > Short replies here. Complete answers over there: > http://www.firegiant.com/ > > > -Original Message

Re: [WiX-users] SwapRunFromCD And SwapRunFromNet - What is it and How to Use ?

2015-03-20 Thread Rob Mensching
http://tinyurl.com/mfkhwxc (Sorry, couldn't resist) _ Short replies here. Complete answers over there: http://www.firegiant.com/ -Original Message- From: Marco Tognacci [mailto:mark...@live.it] Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 12

Re: [WiX-users] Create text file

2015-03-20 Thread Jeremiahf
Don't forget about the encoding of the file! On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Phil Wilson wrote: > Windows Installer doesn't provide that functionality, so writing to > the file with a custom action is the only way to do it, so it can't be > wrong if you do it with a CA and right if WiX supplied

Re: [WiX-users] Create text file

2015-03-20 Thread Phil Wilson
Windows Installer doesn't provide that functionality, so writing to the file with a custom action is the only way to do it, so it can't be wrong if you do it with a CA and right if WiX supplied a CA for it :) If the ini file information about the installtion contains data like the ProductVersion,

[WiX-users] SwapRunFromCD And SwapRunFromNet - What is it and How to Use ?

2015-03-20 Thread Marco Tognacci
I'd like to have some more information about these optionsSwapRunFromCD And SwapRunFromNetHow they are used? what they are used for?Can you provide some reference and help about what are used for and how to use them?Thanks. --

Re: [WiX-users] Create text file

2015-03-20 Thread Lars
That is a separate issue and not possible in our system without major changes. kind regards, Lars > From: bwhee...@dshs.wa.gov > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:15:53 + > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Create text file > > On the whole, an ini file is best created on

Re: [WiX-users] Create text file

2015-03-20 Thread Wheeler, Blaine (DSHS/DCS)
On the whole, an ini file is best created on the first run of the application. This avoids the whole - user context and folder privilege challenge since ini's often have user specific settings they should be stored per user and not per application -Original Message- From: Lars [mailto

[WiX-users] Create text file

2015-03-20 Thread Lars
Hello, I would like our installer to a create text file (actually an .ini file without any sections) with installation specific information included. The IniFile element obviously wont work due to requiring sections. One solution would be to pipe the required information to a file using cust

Re: [WiX-users] Burn: bootstrap a single MSI, not showing BA UI at all

2015-03-20 Thread psimms
sorry to bring up an old post I have this working using 3.10 - a checkbox on the modify screen allowing a value to be passed to the MSI This is great, but my only issue now is that the checkbox screen is available for both a repair and uninstall, I would only like it available for an uninstall on