If you are happy to build your installer with the help file not compressed into a cab, you can use the OriginalDatabase property to find the file and use the WixShellExec custom action (documented in the wix3 help) to run it.
-----Original Message----- From: Sebastian Brand [mailto:sebast...@instyler.com] Sent: 06 May 2010 10:42 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Show help file during installation 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 </pre> <BR style="font-size:4px;"> <a href = "http://www.sdl.com";><img src="http://www.sdl.com/images/email logo_150dpi-01.png" alt="www.sdl.com" border="0"/></a> <BR> <font face="arial" size="2" "><a href = "http://www.sdl.com"; style="color:005740; font-weight: bold">www.sdl.com</a> <BR> <BR> <font face="arial" size="1" color="#736F6E"> <b>SDL PLC confidential, all rights reserved.</b> If you are not the intended recipient of this mail SDL requests and requires that you delete it without acting upon or copying any of its contents, and we further request that you advise us.<BR> SDL PLC is a public limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 02675207.<BR> Registered address: Globe House, Clivemont Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 7DY, UK. </font> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
