Re: [WiX-users] Replacing regsvr32 commands with Wix elements

2011-06-20 Thread Dave Brotherstone
> > -Original Message- > From: Brad Lemings [mailto:b...@rebit.com] > Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 1:19 PM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Replacing regsvr32 commands with Wix elements > > Hmm. How can I capture the effects of the regsv

Re: [WiX-users] gui

2010-09-23 Thread Dave Brotherstone
> > "David Amey" wrote: > > > Does anyone know how I could create a drop down selection for > > languages, used to localise an install? > > Depending on your requirements, MSI can do this for you, selecting the language from the OS language settings - it involves embedding a transform named .mst i

Re: [WiX-users] Property for RadioButtonGroup from RegistrySearch

2010-06-11 Thread Dave Brotherstone
using the condition "Installed". Thanks, and sorry for the noise, Dave. On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Dave Brotherstone wrote: > Hi, > > I have a RadioButtonGroup that is bound to a Property. As this property > determines which component gets installed (a choice of two, limi

[WiX-users] Property for RadioButtonGroup from RegistrySearch

2010-06-11 Thread Dave Brotherstone
Hi, I have a RadioButtonGroup that is bound to a Property. As this property determines which component gets installed (a choice of two, limited by Conditions), I save the value in the registry for uninstall. However, if I do a registry search for the property instead of declaring it absolutely, w

Re: [WiX-users] bug in Light

2010-04-19 Thread Dave Brotherstone
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Mike Rerick wrote: > > Is there a work-around I can do to get this installer to build? > > [exec] light.exe : error LGHT0001 : Item has already been added. Key in > dictionary: 'MyWelcomeDlg/Title' Key being added: 'MyWelcomeDlg/Title' > Height="60

Re: [WiX-users] Wix 2.0: if some dll file(s) deleted, then we'll get "Error 2836" in Repair mode

2010-03-30 Thread Dave Brotherstone
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:39 AM, little.forest wrote: > Hi All, > > > I totally understand 'using regsvr32 in Wix' is not recommended. But in > this adxloader.dll case, we can't use tallow or heat to generate fragments > from the dll. This is not the problem of tallow or heat, but the problem of >

Re: [WiX-users] another test

2010-03-22 Thread Dave Brotherstone
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Bill McCormick wrote: > Does the server return your > messages? If I am the only person having this problem, then it must be > an issue with how all my mail is forwarded to my gmail account - may my > messages are getting googled up :) Gmail will automatically h

Re: [WiX-users] Copy user-selected installed file

2010-03-21 Thread Dave Brotherstone
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Dave Brotherstone wrote: > For the application, we have a language definition file that contains the > localized strings for each language, and a single file that represents the > active language. I would like to offer the user a drop down of

[WiX-users] Copy user-selected installed file

2010-03-21 Thread Dave Brotherstone
Hi, Thanks to the list, I am down to one last step on my installer (for an opensource product). I'm building a multi-language installer using the specially named transform storage method ( http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/msi/articles/embeddedlang/index.htm). For the application, we have a lan

Re: [WiX-users] Change the default startup directory for a service installed with wix - More info added

2010-03-20 Thread Dave Brotherstone
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Dario Griffo wrote: > Here is the code that I'm using. > The problem is that the service starts but in the service I try to read a > class in Common.dll using reflection, and before doing that if I print the > execution directory is > C:\Windows\System32 but the .

[WiX-users] Fwd: Escaping Square Brackets (was: No Subject)

2010-03-19 Thread Dave Brotherstone
On Mar 19, 2010 2:47pm, Patrick Choiniere wrote: > Hi everyone, > I discovered that if I remove the left square bracket "[" from the Value as > follows it will compile and link. Now for the $64,000 question, I need the > [ in there how do I do this? > Escape "[" and "]" inside square bracket

Re: [WiX-users] Invert Feature based on other Feature

2010-03-17 Thread Dave Brotherstone
> your description it sounds like you could just put it in AppData & it'd > work as long as there wasn't one in the same directory as the .exe. > We provide the option to install a "portable" version, to be installed onto a USB drive or similar, so AppData can&#

[WiX-users] Invert Feature based on other Feature

2010-03-17 Thread Dave Brotherstone
Hi all, I have a feature that controls where the config file for our application is located (either "locally" next to the exe in Program Files, or in %APPDATA%). When this feature is selected, the config file is copied correctly to the right place, and the indicator file (to let the .exe know tha

Re: [WiX-users] How to use "<" and ">" in CDATA function

2010-03-15 Thread Dave Brotherstone
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 7:26 PM, banda wrote: > > i am new ro wix, > How to use "<" and ">" in CDATA function > This is an XML thing... a CDATA section is interpreted exactly as it's entered, so you can just use < and > as normal characters. e.g. To do this without the CDATA (which in terms