1. Windows Installer doesn't work that way. You ask your questions up front,
the data gets preserved in the transaction where you operate on it. The
Windows Installer isn't a scripting engine, it's a transaction engine. Have to
think about the problem a little differently.
2. Take a look at the "Formatted" topic in the MSI SDK. It'll show you who
you can use things like [!FileId] to refer to the install location of files and
all that good stuff.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:44
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] WIX Post-Install Dialog Questions
Hi,
I am tring to develop an installation application using WIX and WixEdit that
will show a dialog after the files were installed so that I can run some
scripts using PERL that were installed during the application. I am
encountering the following problems that I was wondering if you might now how
to address:
1) Launching a dialog to obtain some user input after the files are installed.
I can't find a way that works, such as <Show Dialog After=InstallFinalize />
or by changing the MONDO sequence file. I've tried both. Can you provide some
example that will launch a dialog to obtain a user input field after the file
installation?
2) Launching an application that was installed. How do I specify a variable
relative path for one of the file components that was installed? I have tried
all sorts of things for binary keys, etc. and nothing seems to be able to work
specifying a relative path for an installed file:
<Binary Id="MyInstalledExe" SourceFile="$(var.SOME_DIR)myapp.exe" />
Any help or suggestions you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
Chris Ruel, Automation Consultant, Telvent Farradyne Inc.
3206 Tower Oaks Blvd., Rockville, MD 20852
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Office: 301-984-6460 Fax: 301-816-1884
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