I honestly don't know :-) I'm totally inexperienced in this area.
I tried to mimic a working example I had, and both the wix elements and
the c++ source look equivalent (to me)
Is there some documentation that describes what you're talking about?
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Wilson
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 10:15 AM
To: Rob Hamflett
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Locate a required file during an install
Did you set up the proper [EMAIL PROTECTED] attribute for the entry
point?
On 3/15/07, Rob Hamflett <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
No, Win32 should be right. I can't really see what the problem would be
with your installer. Just
as a sanity check, you do have an entry for it in the Binary table,
right?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks for the advice Rob. I've got the directory browsing dialog in
> place, but I'm having issues getting my dll to work.
>
> When I hit the Next button in my dialog, I get an 'installer
> information' message window that says "There is a problem with this
> Windows Installer package. A DLL required for this install to
complete
> could not be run."
>
> My dll is mostly a duplicate of the sample custom action example in
the
> tutorial ( http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson3.php
<http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson3.php> )
>
> #include "stdafx.h"
> #include <windows.h>
> #include <msi.h>
> #include <msiquery.h>
>
> #pragma comment(linker,
> "/EXPORT:[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
> #pragma comment(lib, "msi.lib")
>
> extern "C" UINT __stdcall CheckLicenseFiles (MSIHANDLE hInstall) {
> char Pid[MAX_PATH];
> DWORD PidLen = MAX_PATH;
>
> MsiGetProperty (hInstall, "MYFOLDER", Pid, &PidLen);
> MsiSetProperty (hInstall, "LicenseFilesFound", "true");
> return ERROR_SUCCESS;
> } // CheckLicenseFiles
>
>
> I have a property MYFOLDER defined, as well as LicenseFilesFound
> <Property Id='MYFOLDER' Value='c:\'/>
> <Property Id="LicenseFilesFound" Value='false' />
>
>
>
> Here's snippet from my dialog:
>
> <Control Id="Next" Type="PushButton" X="236" Y="243" Width="56"
> Height="17" Default="yes" Text="Next">
> <Publish Event="DoAction"
> Value="CheckForLicenseFiles">1</Publish>
> <Publish Event="SpawnDialog"
> Value="InvalidDirDlg">LicenseFilesFound = "false"</Publish>
> <Publish Event="NewDialog"
> Value="SetupTypeDlg">LicenseFilesFound = "true"</Publish>
> </Control>
>
>
> I have noticed that in Visual Studio the source platform for the dll
is
> "Win32" as opposed to .NET. Could that be an issue? I'm entirely
> unexperienced with the .NET platform.
>
> Thanks again,
> Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob
> Hamflett
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:47 PM
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Locate a required file during an install
>
> Here's a sample of what you're (hopefully) looking for. As I
understand
> it, you want the user to
> browse to a directory where getyour existing files are, and then you
> want to verify them. The
> attached include files are put together from a couple of our products,
> and have had the usual secret
> stuff sanitised. So they might not work as-is, but will at least give
> you an idea of what you're
> looking for.
>
> In GetExistingFilesDlg the user is prompted for a path. This value
will
> be stored in the property
> MYFOLDER. When they click next, this will call a custom action called
> checkFiles. This will have
> to be a DLL custom action which you need to write. It will need to
get
> the MYFOLDER property, look
> for the files, and then write back a property called FILES_EXIST with
> "yes" if they exist, and
> something else if they don't. You need to set [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
> 'check' or 'ignore' because
> you need the action to finish before the installer continues. The
other
> actions attached to the
> 'Next' button are based on the value of FILES_EXIST which you've just
> written. The installation
> will either continue, or the user will get a pop-up dialog. This is
> FilesAbsentDlg. The user is
> told the files are not there, and clicks OK to go back to
> GetExistingFilesDlg.
>
> The mailing list appears to be banning zip files, so I've renamed the
> extension to .piz
>
> Rob
>
> P.S. I've not attached the binary files for the background images.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I'm working on an installer that depends upon files that the user has
>> received prior to performing the installation.
>>
>> Our current installer (not windows installer based) prompts the user
> to
>> browse for the location of the files... I'm trying to replicate this,
>> but I'm not exactly sure how to go about it.
>>
>> On one hand I think I might need a custom action, on the other hand,
>> that functionality is already part of WiX (i.e. using
>> ConfigurableDirectory in a Feature) I'm not sure if it's accessible
in
>> the context I'd like, a separate step in the install sequence.
>>
>> Can anyone offer a suggestion on the correct course of action?
>>
>>
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