Re: [WiX-users] Trouble with Shortcuts...

2006-12-20 Thread Mike Dimmick
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of André Pönitz Sent: 20 December 2006 15:00 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Trouble with Shortcuts... Mike Dimmick wrote: > If you don't think you need install-on-demand, > repair-on-launch, or the ability for domain administ

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble with Shortcuts...

2006-12-20 Thread André Pönitz
Mike Dimmick wrote: > If you don't think you need install-on-demand, > repair-on-launch, or the ability for domain administrators to > advertise software through Group Policy, by all means use > non-advertised shortcuts. Which, unfortunately, does not seem to work with Wix v3 and validation. At

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble with Shortcuts...

2006-12-19 Thread Wilson, Phil
-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Trouble with Shortcuts... I'm afraid you generated more questions :) ... On 12/18/06, Mike Dimmick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: An advertised shortcut goes through the Windows Installer engine rather than running the p

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble with Shortcuts...

2006-12-19 Thread Scott Palmer
I'm afraid you generated more questions :) ... On 12/18/06, Mike Dimmick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: An advertised shortcut goes through the Windows Installer engine rather than running the program (or document) directly. This enables Windows Installer to check that all components of the requir

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble with Shortcuts...

2006-12-18 Thread Mike Dimmick
TECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Palmer Sent: 18 December 2006 22:46 To: Wilson, Phil Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Trouble with Shortcuts... When I made my installer with WiX was the first time I had ever seen the greyed out target. Everyone in th

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble with Shortcuts...

2006-12-18 Thread Scott Palmer
When I made my installer with WiX was the first time I had ever seen the greyed out target. Everyone in the office that I mentioned it to indicated that it was new to them I don't use MS Office, and the Office users around here weren't familiar with them. So they may have used them, but they di

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble with Shortcuts...

2006-12-18 Thread Wilson, Phil
OT of people have used them and seen them! Phil Wilson From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Palmer Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 6:44 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Trouble with Shor

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble with Shortcuts...

2006-12-18 Thread Scott Palmer
Creating a shortcut shouldn't be a "complication". Until I did my installer with WiX nobody in the company had ever seen an "advertised" shortcut... only a couple of them had even heard of them. Nobody actually wants them, but I was forced to use them for the same reason, to avoid the complicati

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble with Shortcuts...

2006-12-17 Thread Bob Arnson
André Pönitz wrote: > The current behaviour certainly makes sense from a purely technical > point of view. However, in practise one seemingly has to disable > (some) ICEs just to get some of the most common features compiled. > So the 'default' ICEing is far less useful than it might be. > Sorr

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble with Shortcuts...

2006-12-14 Thread André Pönitz
Bob Arnson wrote: > Scott Palmer wrote: > > Then I get the following error: > > Error LGHT0204: ICE43: Component thing1 has non-advertised shortcuts. > > It should use a registry key under HKCU as its Error LGHT0204: ICE57: > > Component 'thing1 ' has both per-user and per-machine data with a >

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble with Shortcuts...

2006-12-13 Thread Bob Arnson
Scott Palmer wrote: > Then I get the following error: > Error LGHT0204: ICE43: Component thing1 has non-advertised shortcuts. > It should use a registry key under HKCU as its Error LGHT0204: ICE57: > Component 'thing1 ' has both per-user and per-machine data with a > per-machine KeyPath. > > To

Re: [WiX-users] Trouble with Shortcuts...

2006-12-13 Thread André Pönitz
Scott Palmer wrote: > I'm using WiX3. > I am trying to make a shortcut as part of installing a > component. The shortcut is to a launcher application that is > installed in another component with a command-line argument > that has the path to a file in the component that contains > the shortcu

[WiX-users] Trouble with Shortcuts...

2006-12-13 Thread Scott Palmer
I'm using WiX3. I am trying to make a shortcut as part of installing a component. The shortcut is to a launcher application that is installed in another component with a command-line argument that has the path to a file in the component that contains the shortcut. If I just use: ...