Hi Mike,
The DefaultDir column in the Directory table (In Wix, Name attribute of the
Directory element) is not of Formatted type, therefore you can't use a property
to set the name of the directory. What you need is to give some fake value to
the Name attribute of Directory element with Id="JavaJreExtFolder" and use
custom action type 35
(http://www.wixwiki.com/index.php?title=Custom_Action_Type_35) to set its value
to the value of the property JRE_LIB_EXT.
Regards,
Alex
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Rerick
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 2:12 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Problem setting property from registry values
I am having a problem getting a property set correctly. I am fairly new to WiX
and to the Windows Installer.
When I build the installer, I get a directory called [JRE_LIB_EXT] created in
the root directory of my install drive.
When I look at the msiexec verbose log file, the CreateFolder action has
c:\[JRE_LIB_EXT] and this is also the directory name used
in the InstallFiles action. When I look at the Properties (S) and Properties
(C) in the log, I see:
Property(S): JRE_CURRENT_VERSION = 1.6
Property(S): JRE_MICRO_VERSION = 0
Property(S): JRE_HOME_FOLDER = C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05
Property(S): SystemFolder = C:\WINDOWS\system32\
Property(S): JavaJreExtFolder = C:\[JRE_LIB_EXT]\
Property(S): WixUIRMOption = UseRM
Property(S): ARPNOMODIFY = true
Property(S): ARPNOREPAIR = true
Property(S): Dummy = Dummy
Property(S): JRE_LIB_EXT = C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05\lib\ext
The install finishes without errors and the correct files do get installed in
the
[JRE_LIB_EXT] folder. I just need it to point to JRE_HOME_FOLDER\lib\ext
instead.
Thanks!
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