[WiX-users] Passing parameters to install scripts

[DaveCory]

Hi there,

I have create two controls where I want tohe user to enter some text. I want
to then pass these two parameters to a script which does some further work.
The controls are defined as

<Control Id="DBLabel" Type="Text" X="45" Y="73" Width="100" Height="15"
TabSkip="no" Text="UserName" />
<Control Id="DBEdit" Type="Edit" X="45" Y="85" Width="220" Height="18"
Property="DBName" Text="{80}"/>

<Control Id="DBStringLabel" Type="Text" X="45" Y="110" Width="100"
Height="15" TabSkip="no" Text="Connnection String" />
<Control Id="DBStringEdit" Type="Edit" X="45" Y="122" Width="220"
Height="18" Property="DBString" Text="{80}"/>

I then have a CustomAction wxs file that I want to pass DBName and DBString
parameters to the serviceCheck.pl script in the following wxs file. How do
you do that?

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='windows-1252'?>
<Wix xmlns='http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2003/01/wi'>
  <Fragment Id='CUSTOMACTIONS'>

    <Binary Id="wixca" src="..\..\..\wix\wixca.dll"/>

    <CustomAction Id="InstallCommon.Command"
      Property="QtExecCmdLine" Value="&quot;perl&quot;
&quot;[bin]serviceCheck.pl&quot; &quot;install&quot; &quot;[bin]&quot;"/>

    <CustomAction Id="InstallCommon" 
                  BinaryKey="wixca" 
                  DllEntry="CAQuietExec" 
                  Execute="immediate" 
                  Return="check"/>

    <CustomAction Id="DeinstallCommon.Command"
                  Property="QtExecCmdLine" Value="&quot;perl&quot;
&quot;[bin]serviceCheck.pl&quot; &quot;deinstall&quot; &quot;[bin]&quot;"/>

    <CustomAction Id="DeinstallCommon" 
                  BinaryKey="wixca" 
                  DllEntry="CAQuietExec" 
                  Execute="immediate" 
                  Return="ignore"/>

    <InstallExecuteSequence>
      <!-- If not installed, generate the install command and execute it
(after finializing the install) -->
      <Custom Action="InstallCommon.Command" After="InstallFinalize">NOT
Installed</Custom>
      <Custom Action="InstallCommon" After="InstallCommon.Command">NOT
Installed</Custom>

      <!-- If installed, generate the uninstall command and execute it
(before removing any files) -->
      <Custom Action="DeinstallCommon.Command"
Before="DeinstallCommon">Installed</Custom>
      <Custom Action="DeinstallCommon"
Before="RemoveFiles">Installed</Custom>
    </InstallExecuteSequence>
    
  </Fragment>
</Wix>
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