Thanks Craig, I've tried this before and the compiler doesn't seem to like
the ".."
My code somehow like this
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id ="INSTALLDIR">
<Directory Id="MYDIR" Name="[INSTALLDIR]..\MyInstallDir" />
</Directory>
</Directory>
Here is the error:
----------- error CNDL0027: The Directory/@Name attribute's value,
'[INSTALLDIR]..\MyInstallDir', is not a valid long name because it contains
illegal characters. Legal long names contain no more than 260 characters
and must contain at least one non-period
character. Any character except for the follow may be used: \ ? | > < : / *
". ----------------------------
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Craig Miller <craig.mil...@spatialminds.com
> wrote:
> Try "[INSTALLDIR]..\siblingdir\"
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hoang Le [mailto:hoangle2...@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 3:02 PM
> > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
> > Subject: [WiX-users] Modify INSTALLDIR using custom action?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > My merge module receives an INSTALLDIR value passed in by a parent
> project
> > (which I have no control over), and the requirement is that I have to
> > install my files to a directory under "the parent" of INSTALLDIR (a
> sibling
> > of INSTALLDIR).
> >
> > My initial thought was to get the value of [INSTALLDIR], locate its
> parent,
> > then create my dir structure from there. This sounds very simple but
> quite
> > hard to achieve.
> >
> > Any helpful idea is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
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