The TargetFile creates a reference to a File/@Id. So, you should just need to do: TargetFile="File_ClientExe" and the rest is managed for you.
As for the documentation, would you mind putting "your time where your feedback is" and provide information that we can add to the WiX.chm to help in this case? That would move us one step closer to the goal. Cryptonomicon wrote: > Once again I am struggling badly with wix. > > I have a file > > <File Id="File_ClientExe" Name="StrawberryFields.exe" > Source="$(var.ClientRoot)$(var.ClientExeName)" Checksum="no" ReadOnly="yes"> > > that I want to use as the target of a verb > > <ProgId Id="StrawberryFields.sbf" Description="!(loc.SampleDescStr2)"> > <Extension Id="sbf" ContentType="application/sbf"> > <Verb Id='open' Command='Open' TargetFile='[!File_ClientExe]' > Argument='"%1"' /> > </Extension> > </ProgId> > > What is wrong with my use of File_ClientExe? > > Error 25 Unresolved reference to symbol 'File:[#File_ClientExe]' in > section > 'Fragment:'. > D:\Home\Development\StrawberryFields\InstallationKit\StrawberryFieldsInstaller\Client.wxs > 24 1 StrawberryFieldsInstaller > > > I have tried the usual sequence of '[!File_ClientExe]' '[#File_ClientExe]' > '[File_ClientExe]' '!File_ClientExe' > > etc - which never works > > Can someone please point me to the complete language syntax and scope rules > > > BTW in the documentation for Wix - it describes using Wix as a mind set > change - where your installer should be written in parallel with your > development. I would say that the same goes for documentation. > > I am afraid that to date the last couple of weeks of using Wix has been the > most depressing and frustrating experience in a quarter of a century of > coding. The years of effort that have gone into this thing which should be > a poster child is totally let down by inadequate documentation, lack of > examples etc. > > So as a word of advice - Stop all development now and work on the > documentation. If all the words that have been typed into this forum had > been typed into a wiki the job would have been done long ago. As it is the > same people are repeating the same answers to the same questions to the > point that they cant be bothered providing answers that people can > understand. > > Once you have an up to date and complete language definition and a full set > of examples - then by all means respond to queries with "Its in the Wix 3 > chm" - but at the moment I've looked - and I cant find it - and if I can > find it I can't understand it. > > Sorry about the venting. > > Now can someone tell me how to refer to a file by its id > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
