Yeah, it would look something like:
<CustomAction Id="ActionId"
Property="YourProperty"
Value="[YourProperty]/stuff_to_concatenate" />
Or at least I think that's how it should work. It may be that you have to
create
a new property to hold the final value...
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Brad Edwards wrote:
> You don't happen to have an example of how to do a custom action to do
> this do you? I'm just learning this wix stuff and have no clue how to
> do a lot of this. Thanks Eric.
>
> Brad
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> It's kinda funny, but you need to use a custom action to set the
> property.
> Apparently MSI won't let you assign a property value from another
> property to
> keep an infinite regress from happening.
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> Brad Edwards wrote:
>> During the install the user is asked for the directory where an
> already
>> existing application is. The user types in "C:\Program Files\Foo". I
>> then set the value of Property "INSTALLDIR" to be that directory
> path.
>> Now that I have that path I want to copy files to a "bin" folder that
>> already exists under that directory path. I'm using CopyFile with a
>> DestinationProperty, so I need to create a Property, let's say
>> "INSTALLBINDIR", and concatenate the INSTALLDIR property with "\bin"
> to
>> make the new Property. How can I do this or can it be done...and if
> it
>> can't be done what can I do to accomplish this? Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>> Brad
>>
>>
>>
>>
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