Hi Rob, (You probably ment me, because I don't know who Brian is ;-) I needed to set a property to the value of an environment variable because I wanted to populate an input field with it. I didn't see any other solution.
Markus On Dec 17, Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com> wrote: > Brian, Why are you using a Property to set another Property? Why not just > use [%MY_ENV_VAR] where you would use [MY_ENV_PROPERTY]? > > Bruce, > > 1. You can refer to the install location of a file in your MSI using the > [!FileId] syntax. > > 2. Under ProgramFilesFolder is where you should install your applications > files. Under CommonFilesFolder is where you should install files that are > shared across your applications. Under system32 is right out. <smile/> > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Markus Gaugusch <w...@gaugusch.at> wrote: > >> On Dec 15, Bruce Cran <br...@cran.org.uk> wrote: >> >>> I've written an installer with WiX 3.5 which installs a Winsock >>> provider, netsh helper and a kernel driver. After doing some >>> restructuring I started getting a warning about installing a >>> non-permanant component into system32, so I'm now trying to change the >>> installation location to be under %ProgramFiles%\Product . >>> However, I need to create a registry entry which points to the new >>> location so that netsh can find it, and it seems that netsh doesn't >>> understand REG_EXPAND_SZ types. Is there a way to write a string to a >>> REG_SZ type during installation which already has the >>> environment variables expanded, or would I need to write a custom >>> action? >> >> Hi Bruce, >> I did this the following (hopefully correct) way: >> >> <InstallUISequence> >> <Custom Action="GetMyEnvVar" Before="LaunchConditions"/> >> </InstallUISequence> >> >> <CustomAction Id="SetSystemMaxRam" Property="MY_ENV_PROPERTY" >> Value="[%MY_ENV_VAR]" /> >> You can use [MY_ENV_PROPERTY] to write the correct registry string. >> >> regards, >> Markus >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community >> Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support >> A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and >> easy >> Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> WiX-users mailing list >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> >> > > > -- __________________ /"\ Markus Gaugusch \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign markus(at)gaugusch.at X Against HTML Mail / \ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
