[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a very similar issue whereby Vista Logo testing > automatically fails any component that has more than one > shortcut within it. As such I have removed a shortcut from > the component containing the app's main executable and have > created a new component that installs an LNK file (a copy of > the advertised shortcut) into the second location - the > Desktop, for argument's sake. The code looks like this... > > <DirectoryRef Id="DesktopFolder"> > <Component Id="DesktopSC" > Guid="YOURGUID-????-????-????-????????????" DiskId="1"> > <Registry Root="HKMU" > Key="SOFTWARE\[Company]\[App]\[Version]\Install"> > <Registry Name="DesktopSC" Value="1" > Type="integer" /> > </Registry> > <File Id="DesktopSC" Name="ShortCut.lnk" > Compressed="yes" src="Installs\ShortCut.lnk" /> > </Component> > </DirectoryRef> > > The problem is that I now get a validation error in ICE57 > thinking that the "DesktopFolder" is a per-user location and > that the "HKMU" keypath can be either per-user or > per-machine.
That's exactly my problem. > Whereas, we all know that the "DesktopFolder" > will resolve to either a per-user or per-machine location > just as the "HKMU" keypath will - depending on the value of ALLUSERS. > > The validation is very dumb, but Vista Logo relies upon it. > I have a workaround, but it's very untidy and I hate it... at > the end of the day, the "HKMU" keypath should satisfy > validation's need for a keypath that matches the component's > per-user/per-machine state. But the code you showed above is not that workaround, is it? It does not yield any improvements in terms of less errors in validation as faras I can tell. Regards, Andre' ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
