Hi, I've been looking for the same thing, unfortunately even reading from a plain text file doesn't appear possible - INI and XML files are the only types of files that you can read/write with standard MSI and WiX tools.
The solution instead was to modify the application to read/write from the registry, a plain text file. Modifying the application instead of the setup meant no funky CA's were required. Sascha On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Blair<os...@live.com> wrote: > Because text files are "free-form" you either need to specify the exact text > format (.INI, or .XML, or whatever) the text file is in OR you need > something like a SED editor wrapped into a custom action. Having said that, > I don't happen to know of any SED C/As. > > However, I'm sure someone would be willing to write one... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Slide [mailto:slide.o....@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 4:15 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] custom action to modify a file > > I've been googling this for a couple days and maybe I'm just not looking for > the right combination of words, so can anyone point me to a custom action > that would let me modify a text file during install? I need to update it > with the selected installation path that the user has chosen. > > Thanks! > > slide > > -- > slide-o-blog > http://slide-o-blog.blogspot.com/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus > on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
