Some in the office has done a similar this with a DLL, for our old IME, but
it's messy and when you uninstall the IME it leaves all the registry in.
so if there is a way of doing this within Wix it would be great.
Jason.
On Dec 13, 2007 3:28 PM, Sebastian Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This looks like you should write the registry values directly but use
> an API somewhere. Have you looked into MSDN if there's something about
> how to programmatically set the character set correctly?
>
> Best regards,
> Sebastian Brand
>
> Instyler Software - http://www.instyler.com
>
>
> On Dec 13, 2007, at 11:20 , Jason Rivers wrote:
>
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I have a list of new keyboards that we ship with our product due to
> > using a different Character set.
> >
> > the keyboard setup goes to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control
> > \Keyboard Layouts
> >
> > the new key needs a Unique name, I'm currently (for UK) using
> > d1000809, and this is hard coded into my WIX installer. I'm sure
> > this is the wrong way of doing it, and I should be able to "look" at
> > the keys there and pick something that isn't used. (the last 3 or 4
> > chars must be 804 or 0809 for a UK Keyboard as I understand it.)
> >
> > Also, to automatically load install the keyboard to the users
> > profile, I need to look in HKCU\Keyboard Layout\Preload
> >
> > in here is some Stings named with a number (1, 2, 3, etc...) and
> > with the value of the keyboard (in this case d1000809) but it
> > appears if I hard code then firstly i'm concerned that I'll
> > overwrite a keyboard someone already has defined, and secondly if
> > there is a gap, EG(1, 2, 4) then number 4 won't be seen. so I need a
> > way of looking at what the latest is, and then add this to the
> > registry as appropriate.
> >
> > This also gets more fun because in theory people will want 1 or
> > maybe 2 keyboards, but in practice (if they don't really know what
> > they're doing) they could install up to around 25 additional
> > keyboards.
> >
> > is there a way I can do this?
> >
> > Jason
> >
> >
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