Well the MsgBox works for the first rollback action that occurs in the new msi. For the old msi, the message box doesnt show AND I also log driver info to a file and that file wasn't updated either, meaning the binary action isn't really happening even though the MSI log says it did. Any thoughts?
Richard-45 wrote: > > > In article <1242174267154-2877231.p...@n2.nabble.com>, > achandrapano <achan...@panologic.com> writes: > >> So it looks like all the 3 conditions are evaluating to true, but nothing >> happens. Is there any way to debug what the error really is? The Msi log >> shows nothing to help me besides those two lines above, then it moves to >> the >> next rollback action which is Removing shortcuts. > > Ah, the reason your message box didn't appear is because you attempted > to display a message box from inside the server process, which isn't > attached to your desktop. Instead of calling ::MessageBox, call > ::MsiProcessMessage. This will cause a message box to be displayed > back on the client side from the server. It is the client that has > the GUI. > > You can also use MsiProcessMessage to write debugging information to > the log. > > One technique people use for debugging CA's is to use the message box > to block the execution so that you can attach a debugger to the > process and step through your code. I've never tried that technique, > I've always debugged my CA's with unit tests before deploying them and > if I had a problem during deployment, I used MsiProcessMessage and the > log file to figure it out. > -- > "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download > <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> > > Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your > production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to > Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK > i700 > Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image > processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com > _______________________________________________ > 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/Rollback-Custom-Action-during-Upgrade-tp2866142p2878976.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
