SteveLoof wrote: > I am relatively new to the world of WIX and am coming from using WISE for > Windows. In our Wise install we have a number of shortcuts for various bits > of our product and in varying locations (DesktopFolder, Quicklaunch (which I > haven't started wrestling with yet) and ProgramMenu). These are turned on or > off by the value given to the property associated with checkboxes for each. > As in Wise creating a shortcut is easy, it is removing the shortcut if it is > unwanted (the checkbox is unticked). In Wise we used a custom action to run > a del command from the command line in a Wise Script. >
<shudder> Just use the checkbox properties as the conditions of the components for each checkbox. That way they're only installed if the checkboxes are checked and there's no cleanup to worry about. > Also ICE38. I have read a bit about this and the reasons for it. We are > running no advertised shortcuts and don't expect self repair to necessarily > be available (we have a C++ script to look at the HKLM registry settings > (which we write as part of the install) and set up a new users environment > accordingly. I have to add not one but 2 useless registry keys, one to > create the shortcut and the other on the RemoveFile component (even if that > isn't the way to remove the shortcut I may need that functionality > elsewhere). Nobody seems to think this is a good test for WI to be enforcing > (for Vista certification need 0 ICE errors (Microsoft Office has plenty of > ICE errors)). Any idea if Microsoft are planning to get rid of it? > It's easy enough to avoid the ICE38 warning. See http://robmensching.com/blog/archive/2007/04/27.aspx. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Register now and save $200. Hurry, offer ends at 11:59 p.m., Monday, April 7! Use priority code J8TLD2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
