Thank you much! This worked!
On 1/25/07, Arnette, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You would have to do a custom action to set the property from a property
and you can condition the execution of that.
<CustomAction Id="Set_MYOLDSETTINGS" Property="MYOLDSETTINGS"
Value="[MYOLDVER]\Settings"/>
<Custom
Action="Set_MYOLDSETTINGS" Execute="immediate" Before="CopyFiles"
>MYOLDVER</Custom>
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Levi Wilson
*Sent:* Thursday, January 25, 2007 11:53 AM
*To:* Lorne Laliberte
*Cc:* wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
*Subject:* Re: [WiX-users] <CopyFile/> vs. CA
This does help, thank you! One caveat to this, the old installation has a
registry key named "Path" that contains the path to its installation
directory. The settings folder is would be in a settings subdirectory of
this. In the <CopyFile/> I cannot reference this like "[MYOLDVER]\settings"
since it violates the pattern of SourceProperty. Also, I cannot set my
SourceName="settings\*.*" either because the '\' violates that property.
I'm sorry if I'm being obtuse about this, but do I need to set ANOTHER
property as well? What would happen if I had this:
<Property Id="MYOLDVER">
<RegistrySearch Id="OldPathSearch" Type="directory" Root="HKLM"
Key="whatever" Name="Path" />
</Property>
<Property Id="MYOLDSETTINGS" Value="[MYOLDVER]\Settings" />
Wouldn't my "MYOLDSETTINGS" property be set to "\Settings" if "MYOLDVER"
was empty? I would try this, but I don't have an environment setup with
this yet. Thanks for the help!
On 1/25/07, Lorne Laliberte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You can actually put a <Condition> element inside your <Component
> Id="CopyFileComponent"> element, and set its condition that way. The
> condition will apply to the entire component, which in this case
> contains your <CopyFile> element.
>
> From the WiX docs: "Under a Component element, the condition becomes the
> condition of the component."
>
> What you want is something like this:
>
> <Fragment>
> <DirectoryRef Id="MyDir">
> <Component Id="CopyFileComponent" ...>
> <CopyFile/> <!-- copy file elements here -->
> <Condition>MYOLDVER</Condition>
> </Component>
> </DirectoryRef>
> </Fragment>
>
> Hope that helps. :)
>
> Lorne Laliberte
> Indigo Rose Software
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Levi
> Wilson
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 9:50 AM
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] <CopyFile/> vs. CA
>
>
> I forgot to mention that both versions can coexist on the
> machine.
>
>
> On 1/25/07, Levi Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>
> If I detect an older version of a product (via a
> <RegistrySearch/> and set into "MYOLDVER") I would like to take settings
>
> files installed for that version, and copy them into the newer version's
> settings folder. Would the best way be to do a CA to do this? I saw
> the <CopyFile/> element, but it doesn't appear that you can specify a
> condition on this. To use the copy file would I have to do this:
>
> <Fragment>
> <DirectoryRef Id="MyDir">
> <Component Id="CopyFileComponent" ...>
> <CopyFile/> <!-- copy file elements here -->
> </Component>
> </DirectoryRef>
> </Fragment>
>
> And then in my <Feature /> tree put the condition like
> this:
>
> <ComponentRef
> Id="CopyFileComponent">MYOLDVER</ComponentRef>
>
> Is that correct? Is there a better way to do this?
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
>
>
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