Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction not running

2012-02-09 Thread jhennessey
No you need to know the name of the standard or custom action that you want it to run after or before. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/CustomAction-not-running-tp7263897p7269311.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nab

Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction not running

2012-02-08 Thread Dodd, Gregory (Atlanta)
...@hyland.com] Sent: February 8, 2012 8:19 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction not running Well, for DLLs it is pretty easy because you can use heat.exe to generate the authoring for you. However, it doesn't handle EXEs. See this thread for more de

Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction not running

2012-02-08 Thread Dodd, Gregory (Atlanta)
-Original Message- From: jhennessey [mailto:jack.hennes...@hyland.com] Sent: February 8, 2012 8:19 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction not running Well, for DLLs it is pretty easy because you can use heat.exe to generate the authoring for you. Howe

Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction not running

2012-02-08 Thread jhennessey
Well, for DLLs it is pretty easy because you can use heat.exe to generate the authoring for you. However, it doesn't handle EXEs. See this thread for more details: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Heat-and-COM-executable-registry-extraction-td1308713.html http://windo

Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction not running

2012-02-08 Thread Dodd, Gregory (Atlanta)
rom: jhennessey [mailto:jack.hennes...@hyland.com] Sent: February 8, 2012 7:56 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction not running Disclaimer: As you probably know, it is a bad practice to register files this way during installation. The preferred way is to au

Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction not running

2012-02-08 Thread jhennessey
Disclaimer: As you probably know, it is a bad practice to register files this way during installation. The preferred way is to author the actual registry values that get written during registration. Ignoring the disclaimer, you shouldn't rely on using the value of the ADDLOCAL property. Instead, u

[WiX-users] CustomAction not running

2012-02-07 Thread Dodd, Gregory (Atlanta)
Hi. I have the following code: (ADDLOCAL="Feature_Default") (REMOVE="ALL") However, the FileKey above is defined in a nested Directory Element as seen below:

Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction not running

2010-09-06 Thread Rob Mensching
You can't log or, IIRC, launch other dialogs from a custom action activated by a DoAction. MSI limitation. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Umesh Joglekar wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have a custom action executable written in c++. This pops up the browser > to the appropriate download link for a pre

[WiX-users] CustomAction not running

2010-08-17 Thread Umesh Joglekar
Hi, I have a custom action executable written in c++. This pops up the browser to the appropriate download link for a prerequisite. It works fine on Windows 7 but on XP it does not seem to be running. It is launched as a special dialog asking the user to install the prerequisite before inst