On Thursday, September 27, 2007, at 01:59PM, "John Vottero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thursday, September 27, 2007, at 01:00PM, "John Vottero" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Should something be properly escaping/quoting the argument? I can >> slip >> >> a couple of "s into my arguments string, but that feels like a >> >> layering hack. >> > >> >WiX and MSI have no way of knowing that your argument is a path that >> >needs to be quoted if it contains a space. You're going to have to >> add >> >the "s. >> >> Surely the Installer knows it is replacing part of a string with a >> string containing a space? It feels like that's the code that should >be >> doing the quoting, but you're probably right about me having to do it >> instead... >> > >There's no way for the installer to know if the string that you're >building is supposed to be one argument (with quotes) or two arguments.
I suppose not. It does automatically quote the string in the Target, though I guess that's definitely got to be a single string. Using extra "s works OK. Cheers, Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
