[WiX-users] Directories and Components

2007-07-23 Thread Ian Stevenson
Hi There, I'm just wondering if there is an easier way to do this. You see, the product I'm installing has many directories containing files. My current understanding is that seeing 'Component' elements can not have 'Directory' elements as children, I must create a new component for every director

Re: [WiX-users] How to call an exe

2007-07-17 Thread Ian Stevenson
I see you've already gone down the exe path somewhat, but I would like to point out that you can debug MSI DLLs - just not via the debugger (albeit maybe you can, as the links below made mention of info in MSI.chm, but I believe it is meant to be a lot of effort). You need to rely on other debuggin

Re: [WiX-users] How to call a .dll from wix with arguments?

2007-07-16 Thread Ian Stevenson
Hi Srini, The idea is that you don't explicitly pass any arguments to the function call (the only argument being the MSI handle that get's set by the installer), instead they are passed by a process of the installer setting up the necessary properties before the custom action is executed. Then wi

[WiX-users] Weekly Releases

2007-07-16 Thread Ian Stevenson
anks, Ian. From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 17 July 2007 1:05 AM To: Ian Stevenson Cc: Lewis G. Pringle, Jr.; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] setup.exe has no icon? Ian Stevenson wrote: Where did you get 3.0.31

Re: [WiX-users] setup.exe has no icon?

2007-07-15 Thread Ian Stevenson
Where did you get 3.0.3106.0 from? Did you build it from source? I ask because I notice it's not available for download yet (I just checked) and as such it may not really be ready for release yet. So maybe that is why there is no icon yet, maybe you need to send something to wix-dev instead. :? C

Re: [WiX-users] how to spawn tomcat installer from the installer I ambuilding?

2007-07-12 Thread Ian Stevenson
Hi Krishna, There are a couple of archives, the main one I guess is on Sourceforge, but I found that slow and almost unusable. There are some independent ones such as: http://www.mail-archive.com/wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net/ and http://www.nabble.com/wix-users-f4470.html As for your questio