First of all thanks to everyone for being so helpful so far, Chad my special thanks to you. Chad may be i am asking you for a extra favour if copying a file from CustomAction is possible can you provide me an example i will be very thankful to you.
Thanks, Vivek Chad Petersen wrote: > > Then, it sounds to me like you will want to expand you Custom Action > script itself to not only run the clean up, but also copy the file onto > the system you use for the clean up. That should do it. But, no way to > copy one Feature, do some Custom Action and then copy another Feature, > that I'm aware of. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vivek > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 2:40 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Running Custom Action Before InstallFiles > > > Thanks Chad, but i am running this msi under too many different > scenario's > > 1) If the user is installing by his own i want to preserve some registry > settings (I do not want this cleanup thing to run in this case. > 2) If we are pushing the install from the server using: > msiexec /i myapp.msi MYFLAG=1 > > in this case i want to run the cleanup files, which is giving me all > this > pain :-((. > > Thanks Again > > quote author="Chad Petersen"> > I'm not Francis, but have a thought for you. > > Why not have your new MSI remove the older InstallShield MSI using the > Upgrade element? It's built in. I always opt for built in features > before using anything custom if it is available. Don't make things > harder than they are. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vivek > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 2:04 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Running Custom Action Before InstallFiles > > > Hi Francis, > > May be my approach is wrong as i am a newbie with Wix with no prior > experience on Install Shield. > > What i am trying to do here is we have some users that are using a msi > (created with Install Shield) and we are replacing this old msi with the > new > one which we are creating with Wix. > > So for removing old msi completely from user machine we have created a > batch > file that cleans up registry, removes product related files and folders > and > removes service that are installed with the old version of msi (created > with > Install shield). > > And before i install my new version i want to execute this script to > clean > all files and setting related to prior msi. > > Please suggest if there is any better approach to achieve my goal. > > Thanks, > Vivek > > > > Francis Kam wrote: >> >> I was under the impression that InstallFiles is a single discrete > action >> and >> can not be broken down per-file. I don't think what you're trying to > do is >> possible with your current approach. Instead, I would consider putting >> your >> CA in the Binary table rather than explicitly installing it on the > file >> system. Although I just realized you're using a batch file... I can't >> recall >> if you can put a batch file in the Binary table (although I imagine > you >> can >> put any sort of file in there). >> >> What are you actually trying to accomplish? What exactly does the > batch >> file >> do? >> >> -Francis >> >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Vivek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >>> >>> Thanks for your response, but i am having a hard time fitting this > custom >>> action in between two features. >>> I checked my Action sequence with Ocra but it doesn't tells me any > thing >>> about sequence of installing a feature. can you please provide me > some >>> example. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Vivek >>> >>> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > - >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's >> challenge >> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great >> prizes >> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the >> world >> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> _______________________________________________ >> WiX-users mailing list >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> >> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://n2.nabble.com/Running-Custom-Action-Before-InstallFiles-tp1093699 > p1096515.html > Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > - > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the > world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > - > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the > world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://n2.nabble.com/Running-Custom-Action-Before-InstallFiles-tp1093699 > p1096637.html > Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > - > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the > world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great > prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the > world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Running-Custom-Action-Before-InstallFiles-tp1093699p1098454.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
