A Custom Action must point to a DLL/EXE/VBScript or Jscript. If the file must be in the MSI itself you cannot run it using a VBScript/DLL/EXE Custom action because the .chm is not extracted yet. You could wrap the .CHM in a small EXE and run that then...
Best regards, Sebastian Brand www.instyler.com | blog.sebastianbrand.com -----Original Message----- From: Goran Brcanski [mailto:goran.brcan...@gmail.com] Sent: Donnerstag, 6. Mai 2010 10:40 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Show help file during installation Is it possible to run .chm file during installation? I added one checkbox, and if it's checked custom action is called which should show install guide. I tried this: <Binary Id="InstallGuide" SourceFile="InstallGuide.chm" /> <CustomAction Id='ShowInstallGuide' BinaryKey="InstallGuide" ExeCommand='' Execute='immediate' Return='asyncNoWait' /> Checkbox state is checked on Next button click: <Publish Dialog="CustomWelcomeDlg" Control="Next" Event="DoAction" Value="ShowInstallGuide">SHOW_INSTALL_GUIDE = "1"</Publish> It works if I define executable file in Binary element, but nothing happens for .chm or any other non executable file. I was thinking to try calling hh.exe InstallGuide.chm but I am not sure how to call this when InstallGuide.chm is not on the disk but in installer. Thanks, Goran -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Show-help-file-during-installation-tp5013146p5013146.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
