Re: [WiX-users] Registry check for Acrobat reader

2011-03-31 Thread kim
Thanks so much Peter. Your suggestion works like a charm. Regards -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Registry-check-for-Acrobat-reader-tp6223495p6227952.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [WiX-users] Registry check for Acrobat reader

2011-03-31 Thread Peter Shirtcliffe
If you need to see if the user can read a PDF file, rather than detect the Acrobat reader application specifically, why not test for the file association so that *any* PDF reader will satisfy the check (I much prefer an alternative PDF reader myself). The keys to test for would be HKLM\Software\Cla

Re: [WiX-users] Registry check for Acrobat reader

2011-03-30 Thread Chad Petersen
@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 12:34 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Registry check for Acrobat reader Thanks for the suggestion Chad. One more thing...this registry key (HKLM\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\Installer) will work on Windows XP. But not f

Re: [WiX-users] Registry check for Acrobat reader

2011-03-30 Thread kim
Thanks for the suggestion Chad. One more thing...this registry key (HKLM\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\9.0\Installer) will work on Windows XP. But not for Windows 7 or Server 2008 as I cant find relavent key here. Any sugguestions what can be done for these OS. Regards -- View this message in co

Re: [WiX-users] Registry check for Acrobat reader

2011-03-30 Thread Chad Petersen
I think this is happening because your Silverlight check has a version number in the registry Data and the URLProtocol has no value in the registry Data for that string. I think you might need to check a setting that would actually have a value. As soon as I put a value of "Test" in the URLProtocol

Re: [WiX-users] Registry check for Acrobat reader

2011-03-30 Thread kim
Is there a way to check if certain path or Key exists in registry? I have similar condition set for Silverlight which works great. but not for acrobat reader. The difference in registry search is as follows please advice. thanks -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml