This is a case of "well I can make it work" vs "is it the right thing to do?".
The installer architecture expects UI to be collected in the UI sequence (fancy that!) and not in the execute sequence. Some of the reasons for that are about silent install, and that UI sometime behaves oddly in that situation. Also, not following the expected model typically leads to problems later - if you were running custom actions in the UI sequence that required elevation you got somewhat hosed when UAC came along. It's also not clear to me that Microsoft will continue to let people show a UI message loop out of a process running with the system account. Services can't do this because of the security vulnerability. What you should be doing is collecting the data in a UI dialog and associating it with public properties that a custom action in the execute sequence uses to update the config file. When the install runs silently these properties can be set on the msiexec command line. Phil Wilson -----Original Message----- From: Viv Coco [mailto:vcotirl...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 1:29 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] First run notepad with my.cfg and only then start the service I actually thought about doing it like this: [code] <Property Id="NOTEPAD">Notepad.exe</Property> <CustomAction Id="LaunchConfFile" Property="NOTEPAD" ExeCommand="[INSTALLDIR]my.cfg" Return="ignore" Impersonate="no" Execute="deferred"/> <InstallExecuteSequence> <Custom Action='LaunchConfFile' Before='StartServices'>(NOT Installed) AND (NOT UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE)</Custom> </InstallExecuteSequence> [/code] This seems to be doing the job. Is this not correct? Thx, Viv On 4/3/2010 3:20 PM, Bob Arnson wrote: > On 4/1/2010 9:28 AM, Viv Coco wrote: > >> shown to the user to modify as needed (I give the user the chance to >> change it by running notepad.exe with my conf file during installing) >> >> > You can't run UI during InstallExecuteSequence. You should let the user > configure after installation. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users *** Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any associated or attached files, is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person. This email comes from a division of the Invensys Group, owned by Invensys plc, which is a company registered in England and Wales with its registered office at Portland House, Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5BF (Registered number 166023). For a list of European legal entities within the Invensys Group, please go to http://www.invensys.com/legal/default.asp?top_nav_id=77&nav_id=80&prev_id=77. You may contact Invensys plc on +44 (0)20 7821 3848 or e-mail inet.hqhelpd...@invensys.com. This e-mail and any attachments thereto may be subject to the terms of any agreements between Invensys (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates) and the recipient (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
