Re: [WiX-users] StdBA Fonts

2014-02-14 Thread Tom Brezinski
You are correct I found the same thing. Any text that changes during the install must have a Background attribute on the font otherwise the text just keeps drawing over itself. This makes it really difficult if you are using a background image. I did come across the issue with the images you

Re: [WiX-users] Getting WiX Product version in MSBuild

2014-02-19 Thread Tom Brezinski
Alex, The MSI version is different from a file version and you have to extract it from the MSI database. I did it using a python script and msilib but I was doing it outside of MSBuild. You could also do it with C#, here's a page with an example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10233400/h

Re: [WiX-users] transparent background on text that changes i.e.: OverallProgressPackageText leaves solid background of text foreground colour in Bootstrapper

2014-02-24 Thread Tom Brezinski
Steve, I ran into this same issue and another user posted about it last week as well. For the moment I am working around it same as you did. This seems like something that should be corrected though so I went ahead and opened a bug: http://wixtoolset.org/issues/4325/ -Original Message---

Re: [WiX-users] How to set Checkbox selected by default in Wix bootstrapper?

2014-02-28 Thread Tom Brezinski
Assuming Checkbox works like a Button I would remove the Property and CheckBoxValue attributes as I do not think you need them. Then add this line to your element to default it to checked: -Original Message- From: hkannans [mailto:hkann...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014

Re: [WiX-users] Unable to start httpd.exe service ?

2014-03-05 Thread Tom Brezinski
Assuming this is Apache that is a pretty light install. One thing you are missing though is add the attribute (Arguments="-k runservice") to your element. If you still have trouble try leaving off the account/password and run it as the local system. If that works then you know you have a pe

[WiX-users] util:CloseApplication and EndSessionMessage

2014-03-06 Thread Tom Brezinski
I'm trying to use CloseApplication with the EndSessionMessage option and am not experiencing the expected result. By default in OnClose my application asks if the user is sure they want to close. So I added handlers for WM_QUERYENDSESSION to return TRUE and WM_ENDSESSION to close the program

Re: [WiX-users] util:CloseApplication and EndSessionMessage

2014-03-10 Thread Tom Brezinski
: Thursday, March 06, 2014 7:34 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] util:CloseApplication and EndSessionMessage There was a WM_ENDSESSION bug fixed in v3.9 -Original Message----- From: Tom Brezinski [mailto:to...@networkinstruments.com] Sent: Thursday, March 6,

Re: [WiX-users] Installing HP LaserJet 4 Printer Driver on FILE instead of LPT1

2014-03-10 Thread Tom Brezinski
I think you will need to write a custom action that uses the AddPrinter api. DIFxApp is probably out of the question since you don't have driver files. HP says for that printer with all current versions of Windows to use the drivers included with the OS. See AddPrinter: http://msdn.microsoft.

Re: [WiX-users] Stuck using 3.5 till harvesting returns to WIX

2014-03-20 Thread Tom Brezinski
Not really. You could run heat as a pre-build step with '-cg Product.Generated' and include the resulting wxs file in your project. Then all you need is the ComponentGroupRef line you have below. I used to do that in one of my projects. There's also the HeatDirectory msbuild task you could a

[WiX-users] Burn StandardBA Dynamic LaunchTarget

2014-05-21 Thread Tom Brezinski
Is there a way to change the StandardBA LaunchTarget based on a user selection? I have the following 4 radio buttons in my bundle which determine which features I install: Depending on which the user selects I want LaunchTarget to be different. For example i

Re: [WiX-users] Burn StandardBA Dynamic LaunchTarget

2014-05-22 Thread Tom Brezinski
: -Original Message- From: Tom Brezinski [mailto:to...@networkinstruments.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 7:12 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Burn StandardBA Dynamic LaunchTarget Is there a way to change the StandardBA

Re: [WiX-users] Build order problems Votive vs MSBuild

2014-06-04 Thread Tom Brezinski
Tony, Not sure if this will help you, but I ran into a similar problem. I need to run MSBuild with "/property:BuildProjectReferences=false" as I have references to projects not in the solution and it was attempting to build those references even though I did not need it to. A side effect of t

[WiX-users] MinorUpdateTargetRTM and Uninstall

2014-08-01 Thread Tom Brezinski
I am experimenting with doing incremental minor patches followed by a "rollup" minor patch. I am seeing an interesting behavior that I have a feeling is expected but I would like to confirm. So for example given the following patch sequence: 1.0.0 --1.0.1 1.0.2 ---1.0.3 --1.0.4 Patch 1

Re: [WiX-users] Install certificate in users store

2014-12-03 Thread Tom Brezinski
Another options is invoking certutil.exe (on Vista and newer versions of windows) with a CAQuietExec. Here's an example that installs to the system store, just tweak the certutil.exe command to go to the user store if that is where you want it. The one downside to this is i