[WiX-users] Creating multi-instance installations using WiX

2009-07-03 Thread Carl Caulkett
th a Delphi written front end which gathers the installation details and then passes them as parameters to a WiX written MSI and uses MSI Transforms to achieve the multiple instances! It works quite well, but we would like a purely WiX solution going forward. Thanks in advance, Carl

[WiX-users] Registry permissions in Wix

2008-06-12 Thread Carl Caulkett
Wix 3.0.4123 + VS2005 Hello, I am working on an installer which writes values to a key within HKLM. It works fine if there is no existing registry key, but fails when it tries to overwrite existing values. I get the error message: "Could not write value Enabled to key \SOFTWARE\xxx\yyy\

[WiX-users] Applying a condition to a Custom Action

2008-06-02 Thread Carl Caulkett
Hello, I have a situation where I need to run a Custom Action only when a certain condition is false. I've attacked the first part of this by setting a public property if a certain file exists... The custom action in question runs an external executa

[WiX-users] Dynamic Shortcuts in Wix

2008-05-23 Thread Carl Caulkett
Hello, I am trying to create menu and desktop shortcuts which are named dynamically by the installer. In other words, suppose I have a property called INSTANCE_NAME, I would like to be able to include Name="[INSTANCE_NAME]" in my element. The problem is that, unlike other attributes, the "Name