There is nothing easy about CustomActions. You have to think about so many things (install uninstall repair patching rollback) when writing a CustomAction. Then you hit the little things. <smile/>
Do configuration at "first boot" of your app. Things just work better that way. -----Original Message----- From: Hugh Emberson [mailto:hugh.ember...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 16:25 To: mi...@swampgas.com; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Z-Order problem with Custom Actions on Vista I did discover that if the CustomAction runs a console application (in a command prompt box) and that runs the configuration application then I can get what I want. But it is too ugly and confusing for my users. [Note for anyone who want to try launching via a console application, I did it with Execute='immediate', Impersonate='yes' and after InstallFinalize. I don't know what would happen if I did it before InstallFinalize.] My original plan was to launch the configuration application after the installation had finished (after the reboot actually), but then I got seduced by the ease of the CustomAction and lost a day :-( Thanks, Hugh On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Michael Owings <mi...@swampgas.com> wrote: > I had a similiar problem with a C++ custom action that needed to display > a confirmation dialog. ::MessageBox() had the same issue, so I had to > switch to using MsiProcessMessage from the Windows Installer API. This > worked out fine for me, but in your case, I think you're stuck. MS puts > a lot of roadblocks in fromt of applications that want to force their > way to the top of the z-order. > > I'd google 'win32 z-order vista' and see what you can do about bringing > your app to the front of the desktop. Alternatively, you could lauinch > the app via a bootstrapper once installation is complete (as opposed to > just finalized). > > Hugh Emberson wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm developing an installer in WiX 2.0, it works well except for one >> thing ... >> >> I have a CustomAction which launches a configuration application after >> then installation has been finalized. On XP, this works fine, but on >> Vista the application window pops up under the installer UI window. >> >> I'd like the application window to pop up on top of the installer UI >> (I'm using Wix_UI_InstallDir). Does anyone know how to make this >> happen? >> >> The CustomAction looks like this: >> >> <CustomAction Id='LaunchConfigApp' >> Execute='deferred' >> FileKey='configappEXE' >> ExeCommand='' >> Impersonate='no' >> Return='ignore' />""") >> >> <InstallExecuteSequence> >> <Custom Action='LaunchConfigApp' >> Before='InstallFinalize'>NOT Installed</Custom> >> </InstallExecuteSequence> >> >> Thanks, >> Hugh >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> WiX-users mailing list >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> >> >> > > > -- > Teleoperate a roving mobile robot from the web: > http://www.swampgas.com/robotics/rover.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
