Unfortunately these files are not generated by my department but by our Service
department. The PDF files may change throughout the lifetime of the product.
This "feature" was given to our Service department in another product (before
my time, I have to say), and its how they have requested it work in the new
product.
I've been resisting for about 3 months, saying that if they give us the files
then we will install them, but apparently that cant work with their process.
Sucks to be me :)
________________________________
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu 1/11/2007 5:09 PM
To: Colin Burn; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [WiX-users] Conditional installation of a shortcut based on
afolders existance
Random note: using "SourceDir" during runtime is very, very tricky. There are
many cases where the Property does not get set or by using it you can force the
Windows Installer to prompt the user to put the original media back in the CD
(or wherever they installed it from). For example, what happens when you try
to repair your product or upgrade it?
Why don't you create a Component(s) to install the PDF file(s) that your
copying from source?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin Burn
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 6:45 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Conditional installation of a shortcut based on a folders
existance
Conditional installation of a shortcut based on a folders existence
Hi all,
I'm tying to create an installer that copies some files from the installation
media (if they exist) to a location on the target machine. I'm then trying to
add a start menu entry that points to this location so far I have this fragment
that does most of the work...
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='windows-1252'?>
<Wix xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2003/01/wi'>
<Fragment Id='PdfFragment'>
<CustomAction Id='SetPdfFolder' Property='SourcePdfDir'
Value='[SourceDir]pdf\'/>
<DirectoryRef Id='PdfFolder'>
<Component Id='PdfComponent' Guid='1DC5A176-1062-4b7d-A2B3-DCD15EE050A9'>
<CopyFile Id='PdfFiles' DestinationDirectory='PdfFolder'
SourceProperty='SourcePdfDir' SourceName='*.pdf'/>
<Shortcut Id="StartMenuPdfFolder" Directory="ProgramMenuDir" Name="PDF"
LongName="Training Material" WorkingDirectory='PdfFolder'/>
</Component>
</DirectoryRef>
</Fragment>
</Wix>
The custom action is executed from the InstallExecuteSequence.
This all works fine when the pdf folder exists on the install CD but when it
doesn't I still get the start menu shortcut but it doesn't point to anything.
So I think that I need to make the component conditional. Which I think means
that I need to write another custom action that detects is a folder exists on
the CD and sets a property, but I don't know how to do this. Can somebody help
me?
Cheers
Colin
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