[WiX-users] multiple 'Open' extensions added by multiple installs

2012-01-19 Thread Jacek Pospychała
hi, my installer adds 'Open' option in 'PHP' files context menu with following WIX code: The problem is that I allow multiple versions of the application to be installed on the system and each installer adds it's own 'Open' option. Is there a way to add only one 'Op

Re: [WiX-users] minor issues with WiX installer gui

2010-03-18 Thread Jacek Pospychała
thanks a lot Bob. MSI logs already surprised me in a good way so I'll need to try it out. By any chance, can you tell how to find in log, when a button (e.g. "Repair") have been pressed or when did the progress dialog appeared? thanks Jacek 2010/3/18 Bob Arnson > On 3/17/2

Re: [WiX-users] customising dialogs

2010-03-17 Thread Jacek Pospychała
hi, see topic "Changing the UI sequence of a built-in dialog set" at http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/WixUI_customizations.htm Assuming that you're using Wix_InstallDir GUI mode, here you can see how it is implemented: http://wix.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wix/wix/src/ext/UIExtension/wixlib/

Re: [WiX-users] Unsubscribe

2010-03-17 Thread Jacek Pospychała
Vegard, to unsubscribe, go to https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users You only need to type your e-mail address to unsubscribe. On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Vegard Sandberg wrote: > Hi! > > I want to unsubscribe from wix users list, but I seem to have lost my > password. > > >

Re: [WiX-users] minor issues with WiX installer gui

2010-03-17 Thread Jacek Pospychała
space: > > > http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2008/07/24/why-windows-installer-may-require-so-much-disk-space.aspx > > Phil Wilson > > -----Original Message- > From: Jacek Pospychała [mailto:jacek.pospych...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 7:16 AM > To: Gener

Re: [WiX-users] Adding multiple files to component

2010-03-16 Thread Jacek Pospychała
you can try use heat to generate files index for you automatically. There's more help about it in this tutorial lesson: http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson6.php HTH Jacek On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Kerber, Cameron wrote: > I'm sure this question has been asked before in some variety

Re: [WiX-users] Component spans multiple directories

2010-03-16 Thread Jacek Pospychała
hi Bill, put all components from different directories into single ComponentGroup and then refer to it instead of components. HTH Jacek On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Bill McCormick wrote: > Hello, > > I have a product user manual component (it's some legacy html > documentation) that needs

[WiX-users] minor issues with WiX installer gui

2010-03-16 Thread Jacek Pospychała
hi WiXers, I'd like to share with you my excitement that product I'm working with, has almost ready MSI installer thanks to WiX! I still have some questions though :-) 1. We noticed that when pressing "Repair" or "Remove" button - on the last page of Repair and Remove wizards respectively, GUI han

Re: [WiX-users] heat.exe popping up a dialog

2010-03-03 Thread Jacek Pospychała
ok, I figured out adding "-sreg" to heat command line does the trick. anyway, I'm still interested to learn, how the DLL is processed that it can throw a popup.. Jacek 2010/3/3 Jacek Pospychała > hi, > > I'm generating wxs file for Sun Java Runtime using heat an

[WiX-users] heat.exe popping up a dialog

2010-03-03 Thread Jacek Pospychała
hi, I'm generating wxs file for Sun Java Runtime using heat and unfortunately during this process, heat/jre popups an error dialog saying "Java Plug-in 1.6.0_18 is not installed properly". This happens for two DLL files inside JRE and turns our sleek fully automated process into manual nightmare :

Re: [WiX-users] questions about installer speed and progress monitoring

2010-02-22 Thread Jacek Pospychała
e: > On 2/19/2010 4:37 AM, Jacek Pospychała wrote: > > Do you know what extra does the installer do, that takes so much time? > > It supports rollback which entails extra bookkeeping to be able to > restore files on failure. > > > And > > does it make an

[WiX-users] minor issue with documentation

2010-02-22 Thread Jacek Pospychała
hi I have no idea how this could happen, but there's little bug on the docs page http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/main.htm The title there says: "Windows Installer XML (WiX) v[[Version.Major]].[[Version.Minor]] Help" - I guess the brackets part should be repleaced with real version numbers t

[WiX-users] questions about installer speed and progress monitoring

2010-02-19 Thread Jacek Pospychała
hi, I'm building an MSI package using WiX for an application consisting of about 2 files in 1800 folders, total of ~500MB uncompressed. It's built as a single feature, with component per each folder. Installer's single task is to copy all the files, there's no DLLs to register, etc. Ready MSI