Re: [WiX-users] Unable to override SetProperty value with Edit Control value

2014-01-09 Thread trush44
Thank you everyone. After much research and many difficulties, I finally figured it out with the help of your replies (special thanks to the winded reply by Blair). According to a comment on Rob's Remember Property blog, I also found out that WiX 3.5+ supports firstSequence on SetProperty so manu

Re: [WiX-users] Unable to override SetProperty value with Edit Control value

2014-01-06 Thread Blair Murri
Installer to understand more. Also, there's a great book out, a great tutorial, and lots of information accessible via Bing/Google/etc., as well as this user list. -Blair > Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 07:48:21 -0800 > From: tr...@outlook.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject

Re: [WiX-users] Unable to override SetProperty value with Edit Control value

2014-01-06 Thread Hoover, Jacob
ssage- From: trush44 [mailto:tr...@outlook.com] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 4:39 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to override SetProperty value with Edit Control value Thank you, John. Are you displaying any of your REGPROP's in a dialog GUI? Using you

Re: [WiX-users] Unable to override SetProperty value with Edit Control value

2014-01-06 Thread trush44
Thank you, John. Are you displaying any of your REGPROP's in a dialog GUI? Using your code, my final issue is that when there is no registry key and instead I'm using a default value, I cannot get that default value to display in the dialog GUI. Instead, it displays blank. If there's a registry

Re: [WiX-users] Unable to override SetProperty value with Edit Control value

2014-01-06 Thread John Cooper
--- From: trush44 [mailto:tr...@outlook.com] Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 9:48 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Unable to override SetProperty value with Edit Control value Thank you - that worked but I could use some help in understanding how/why. How doe

Re: [WiX-users] Unable to override SetProperty value with Edit Control value

2014-01-06 Thread trush44
Thank you - that worked but I could use some help in understanding how/why. How does setting the condition "Not PROPSERVERHOSTNAME" force the property to be updated to the user override value on the backend when the xml file is updated? There's also one other kink I'm trying to figure out in rega

Re: [WiX-users] Unable to override SetProperty value with Edit Control value

2014-01-04 Thread Blair Murri
Not PROPSERVERHOSTNAME > Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 09:29:10 -0800 > From: tr...@outlook.com > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] Unable to override SetProperty value with Edit Control > value > > I have a Property called PROPSERVERHOSTNAME which I

[WiX-users] Unable to override SetProperty value with Edit Control value

2014-01-02 Thread trush44
I have a Property called PROPSERVERHOSTNAME which I use to update an Xml File (util:XmlFile). This property is set via SetProperty but I also give the user the ability to override the default Property value by presenting the Property in an edit Control. My problem is that when the Xml File gets u