Short answer: Not directly. Long answer: If something is vital, or if the user cancels a prompt to retry the operation, its failure is fatal. Otherwise it's ignorable.
Custom actions can be treated as either vital (e.g. Return="check") or ignored (e.g. Return="ignore"). Files can be marked as vital (in recent builds of WiX, files are often vital by default). Registry values cannot be so marked. Only some operations will prompt for retries. I have never seen any documentation that shows what built-in actions will request retries and which won't, but the only things I have ever either seen or heard of prompting for retries are files and registry values. All built-in actions (except directory removal) are fatal upon failure (except those retries that are skipped) or those that can be marked to ignore failed attempts. For custom actions (including those provided by the WiX toolset) it is entirely up to the custom action author. See the documentation, review the source code, or check with the custom action's provider. -----Original Message----- From: Elfe Xu [mailto:elf...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 7:16 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Questions about showing warning/error message dialog Are there any document of MSI shows what error is fatal and what can be ignore? Thanks, -Elfe -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Questions-abou t-showing-warning-error-message-dialog-tp5328727p5340588.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;226879339;13503038;l? http://clk.atdmt.com/CRS/go/247765532/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;226879339;13503038;l? http://clk.atdmt.com/CRS/go/247765532/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
