Re: [WiX-users] Launch notepad in foreground

2010-03-03 Thread Lisa Gracias
What was weird was the inconsistency - sometimes it opened in the foreground and sometimes it didn't. I switched over from a type 50 custom action to a type 34 and used write (wordpad) instead of notepad. Seems to work now. Thanks for the help. Here's the code in case it helps anyone. WIXUI_EXI

Re: [WiX-users] Launch notepad in foreground

2010-03-03 Thread Alec Taylor
Or you could simply run on finish? On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:05 AM, Wilson, Phil wrote: > This is usually a losing game. > > http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2009/02/20/9435239.aspx plus > discussion > > Can you arrange to have the install complete while Notepad continues to run? > If y

Re: [WiX-users] Launch notepad in foreground

2010-03-02 Thread Wilson, Phil
This is usually a losing game. http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2009/02/20/9435239.aspx plus discussion Can you arrange to have the install complete while Notepad continues to run? If you launch it completely asynchronously the install will go away and leave it there. Phil Wilson