Re: [WiX-users] Feature containing merge module always seems to be advertised

2007-11-22 Thread Duncan Bayne
> EDB0, if I recall correctly, is the op-code for LDIR. Yep, > wow, that's sad. http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-assembler-(z80)-843.html At least nowadays I have an assembler, unlike when I was 9. - This SF.net email

Re: [WiX-users] Feature containing merge module always seems to be advertised

2007-11-22 Thread Bob Arnson
Duncan Bayne wrote: > Bingo! Thank you sir, worked a treat. MSI has to be one of the most > arcane technologies I've ever used (and I include hand-assembled Z80 > on an 8-bit Amstrad CPC in that comparison). > EDB0, if I recall correctly, is the op-code for LDIR. Yep, wow, that's sad. --

Re: [WiX-users] Feature containing merge module always seems to be advertised

2007-11-22 Thread Duncan Bayne
> If a feature has no components, it's always advertisable (unless > advertisement has been completely disabled). The hack-around is to add a > dummy component to such features. Bingo! Thank you sir, worked a treat. MSI has to be one of the most arcane technologies I've ever used (and I include

Re: [WiX-users] Feature containing merge module always seems to be advertised

2007-11-20 Thread Bob Arnson
Duncan Bayne wrote: > So it looks like it's not being advertised by default, after all. Now > I'm *really* confused, because I have *no* idea what that Windows > Installer dialog is doing at runtime. > If a feature has no components, it's always advertisable (unless advertisement has been com

Re: [WiX-users] Feature containing merge module always seems to be advertised

2007-11-19 Thread Duncan Bayne
Hi Bob, > Get a verbose install log (msiexec /l*vx log.log /i name.msi) and see > the logging around the InstallValidate action. Thanks for the tip. If I disable advertisement and perform a complete installation, I get: MSI (s) (EC:38) [10:17:23:275]: Feature: MyFeature; Installed: Absent; Req

Re: [WiX-users] Feature containing merge module always seems to be advertised

2007-11-19 Thread Bob Arnson
Duncan Bayne wrote: > An Attributes value of 8 should represent > msidbFeatureAttributesDisallowAdvertise - which should prevent the > user from choosing to have the feature advertised. This works, in > that the user can't choose to advertise the feature in the UI. > However when the application i