According to the tutorial, the FileKey attribute of the custom attribute is
set to the Id of the file you wish to run so I assume that it is trying to
run the executable directly...which I also successfully tested.
But I don't really know the exact command that the installer is calling as
it isn't being logged. Using the ProcessMonitor does not show the program
getting run if I change the installation directory during the install.
However, I did do an experiment where I set the installation folder on the
command line by setting INSTALLDIR to what is not defaulted in the
installer. At the end of the install, the program started when the checkbox
was set. This leads me to believe that the path to the executable is being
resolved very early and subsequent changes are not being reflected in the
custom action.
You are certainly right about this being commonly implemented functionality.
Thanks again
John
On 8/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> John,
>
>
>
> Be careful - Running from the shortcut may not be a completely valid test.
> You really need to launch it (e.g. using Start / Run) using exactly the
> same command line as Microsoft Installer will.
>
>
>
> You may want to try running the installation with ProcessMonitor running
> (you can get that from
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/processmonitor.mspxif
> you haven't encountered it before – although I haven't tried the version
> that was apparently released yesterday!). That will show you exactly what
> file(s) are being accessed etc. and may provide some hints about what is
> going wrong.
>
>
>
> What you are trying to accomplish is common enough that I think there
> would be a lot more traffic about it on the list if the tutorial was badly
> wrong. (As I said, I have used that mechanism myself to launch "readme"
> files with no trouble.)
>
>
>
> Hope you manage to get it resolved.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *From:* John Lalande [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:18 AM
> *To:* Foster, Richard - PAL
> *Cc:* wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* Re: [WiX-users] Run program after installation
>
>
>
> Richard
>
> It certainly is not a silly question and was worth checking. I checked
> and the program does not depend on its location. If I install to a
> non-default folder I can run the program from its shortcut.
>
> I am starting to think that perhaps this cannot be done as easily as the
> tutorial illustrates.
>
> Thanks for your response.
>
> John
>
> Richard wrote:
> >It may be a silly question (and hopefully is), but does the application
> >itself have any path-related dependencies? I.e. can you use the same
> >command line as Installer would use successfully, bearing in mind that
> >the working directory and the application's installation directory may
> >not be the same. I haven't launched an installed application using the
> >mechanism described, but I have triggered the opening of a specific file
> >from the location it was installed to without any trouble.
>
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