Re: [WiX-users] Setting a Property based on another Property

2006-08-29 Thread Rob Hamflett
to have an example of how to do a custom action to do >> this do you? I'm just learning this wix stuff and have no clue how to >> do a lot of this. Thanks Eric. >> >> Brad >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Eric Fesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] &

Re: [WiX-users] Setting a Property based on another Property

2006-08-25 Thread Brad Edwards
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Setting a Property based on another Property Yeah, it would look something like: Or at least I think that's how it should work. It may be that you have to create a new property to hold the final value... -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software

Re: [WiX-users] Setting a Property based on another Property

2006-08-25 Thread Eric Fesh
--- > From: Eric Fesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 12:09 PM > To: Brad Edwards > Cc: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Setting a Property based on another Property > > It's kinda funny, but you need to use a custom action t

Re: [WiX-users] Setting a Property based on another Property

2006-08-25 Thread Brad Edwards
M To: Brad Edwards Cc: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Setting a Property based on another Property It's kinda funny, but you need to use a custom action to set the property. Apparently MSI won't let you assign a property value from another property to keep an i

Re: [WiX-users] Setting a Property based on another Property

2006-08-25 Thread Eric Fesh
It's kinda funny, but you need to use a custom action to set the property. Apparently MSI won't let you assign a property value from another property to keep an infinite regress from happening. -- Eric Fesh Customer Support Engineer/Software Test Engineer Verari Systems Software, Inc. 110 12th

[WiX-users] Setting a Property based on another Property

2006-08-25 Thread Brad Edwards
During the install the user is asked for the directory where an already existing application is.  The user types in “C:\Program Files\Foo”.  I then set the value of Property “INSTALLDIR”  to be that directory path.  Now that I have that path I want to copy files to a “bin” folder that alrea