Thanks for the tip on the AddFeature. However, to be more specific for others, the actual events you want to use are AddLocal and AddSource, because if you go looking for an AddFeature event you won't find one.
Joel Phelps Sentinel / eCollections Software (515) 564-0585 -----Original Message----- From: wix-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:wix-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net] Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010 4:47 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: WiX-users Digest, Vol 50, Issue 168 Send WiX-users mailing list submissions to wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wix-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net You can reach the person managing the list at wix-users-ow...@lists.sourceforge.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of WiX-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Feature Tree and Remove problem (Joel Phelps) 2. Re: Feature Tree and Remove problem (Blair) 3. WiX problem on Vista (S.P) 4. Re: WiX problem on Vista (Blair) 5. From DLL: UI mode and setup mode (Lukas Haase) 6. Re: From DLL: UI mode and setup mode (Blair) 7. Re: WiX problem on Vista (Rob Mensching) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:41:35 -0500 From: "Joel Phelps" <joel.phe...@ecollections.com> Subject: [WiX-users] Feature Tree and Remove problem To: <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <14550066402fb742af4a9f2226ded7658ac...@pleiades.sentinel1.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Ok, I've seen around the web this is a good place to ask questions about WiX. I have been working on an install for one of my company's products. I've run into a couple of issues that I have not been able to figure out. 1. When selecting custom install, this brings up the feature tree with all features listed initially as "Entire feature will be unavailable". You can change the features as expected and everything installs fine, but I'd like to set the custom install to default certain features to "Will be installed on local hard drive" or "Entire feature will be installed on local hard drive" instead of "Entire feature will be unavailable". I'm using WixUI_Mondo with one custom dialog I added. Here is my feature tree. <!--Top level feature--> <Feature Id="Product_Full" Title="Product Suite" Display="expand" TypicalDefault="install" AllowAdvertise="no" InstallDefault="local" Level="3"> <ComponentRef Id="Empty"/> <!--Sub Group for client applications--> <Feature Id="Client" Title="Client" Description="Installs the client software needed to use the Product system." Display="expand" Level="1" TypicalDefault="install" InstallDefault="local" AllowAdvertise="no" ConfigurableDirectory="INSTALLDIR"> <ComponentGroupRef Id="Product_Components"/> </Feature> </Feature> Here is the UI entries <!--Wix UI Entries--> <UI Id="Product_Mondo"> <UIRef Id="WixUI_Mondo" /> <UIRef Id="WixUI_ErrorProgressText" /> <DialogRef Id="ProductRegistrationDlg"/> <Publish Dialog="LicenseAgreementDlg" Control="Next" Event="NewDialog" Value=" ProductRegistrationDlg " Order="3">LicenseAccepted = "1"</Publish> <Publish Dialog="SetupTypeDlg" Control="Back" Event="NewDialog" Value=" ProductRegistrationDlg ">1</Publish> <Publish Dialog="SetupTypeDlg" Control="CustomButton" Property="INSTALLLEVEL" Value="3">1</Publish> <!--<Publish Dialog="SetupTypeDlg" Control="CustomButton" Property="SetInstallLevel" Value="3">1</Publish>--> </UI> <!--Wix UI Entries--> I tried both of the Publish elements on the CustomButtom individually hoping one or the other would enable the features I want, but alas neither did. 2. Error when clicking Remove in Add Remove Programs Currently, if you use the install and then go to Add Remove Programs and click the remove button the remove process throws the following error "The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2343." However, if you click change in Add Remove Programs and then click the remove button in the installer the change button brings up, it works fine. I looked up the error which is "Specified path is empty." Unfortunately, this and my FileMon logging didn't reveal anything. If anyone has any ideas or knows what command is run when the remove button is clicked so I can turn on verbose logging I'm all ears. Joel Phelps ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:40:18 -0700 From: "Blair" <os...@live.com> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Feature Tree and Remove problem To: "'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'" <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <blu111-ds654862bf2dd200aa7c836cd...@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" INSTALLLEVEL defaults to 1, and isn't changed until after CostFinalize when initial feature states are computed. You would need to instead send the AddFeature event targeting Product_Full instead of (or in addition to) changing INSTALLLEVEL. -----Original Message----- From: Joel Phelps [mailto:joel.phe...@ecollections.com] Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 1:42 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Feature Tree and Remove problem Ok, I've seen around the web this is a good place to ask questions about WiX. I have been working on an install for one of my company's products. I've run into a couple of issues that I have not been able to figure out. 1. When selecting custom install, this brings up the feature tree with all features listed initially as "Entire feature will be unavailable". You can change the features as expected and everything installs fine, but I'd like to set the custom install to default certain features to "Will be installed on local hard drive" or "Entire feature will be installed on local hard drive" instead of "Entire feature will be unavailable". I'm using WixUI_Mondo with one custom dialog I added. Here is my feature tree. <!--Top level feature--> <Feature Id="Product_Full" Title="Product Suite" Display="expand" TypicalDefault="install" AllowAdvertise="no" InstallDefault="local" Level="3"> <ComponentRef Id="Empty"/> <!--Sub Group for client applications--> <Feature Id="Client" Title="Client" Description="Installs the client software needed to use the Product system." Display="expand" Level="1" TypicalDefault="install" InstallDefault="local" AllowAdvertise="no" ConfigurableDirectory="INSTALLDIR"> <ComponentGroupRef Id="Product_Components"/> </Feature> </Feature> Here is the UI entries <!--Wix UI Entries--> <UI Id="Product_Mondo"> <UIRef Id="WixUI_Mondo" /> <UIRef Id="WixUI_ErrorProgressText" /> <DialogRef Id="ProductRegistrationDlg"/> <Publish Dialog="LicenseAgreementDlg" Control="Next" Event="NewDialog" Value=" ProductRegistrationDlg " Order="3">LicenseAccepted = "1"</Publish> <Publish Dialog="SetupTypeDlg" Control="Back" Event="NewDialog" Value=" ProductRegistrationDlg ">1</Publish> <Publish Dialog="SetupTypeDlg" Control="CustomButton" Property="INSTALLLEVEL" Value="3">1</Publish> <!--<Publish Dialog="SetupTypeDlg" Control="CustomButton" Property="SetInstallLevel" Value="3">1</Publish>--> </UI> <!--Wix UI Entries--> I tried both of the Publish elements on the CustomButtom individually hoping one or the other would enable the features I want, but alas neither did. 2. Error when clicking Remove in Add Remove Programs Currently, if you use the install and then go to Add Remove Programs and click the remove button the remove process throws the following error "The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2343." However, if you click change in Add Remove Programs and then click the remove button in the installer the change button brings up, it works fine. I looked up the error which is "Specified path is empty." Unfortunately, this and my FileMon logging didn't reveal anything. If anyone has any ideas or knows what command is run when the remove button is clicked so I can turn on verbose logging I'm all ears. Joel Phelps ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- -- 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://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:08:48 -0700 (PDT) From: "S.P" <iraniangirl9...@yahoo.com> Subject: [WiX-users] WiX problem on Vista To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <981610.97279...@web114507.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Dear All, ? I have an installer which can have different versions such as V1.7, V1.8, etc. After installin each version, we have some problems with uninstalling it. When we uninstall V1.8, it also uninstalls V1.7 or disables it.? This is not on all machines.? The primary one we have seen the problem is on Vista.? Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of different machines to fully test this issue.But it works well on XP. ? Does anybody know the reason? ? Thanks in advance ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:19:08 -0700 From: "Blair" <os...@live.com> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX problem on Vista To: "'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'" <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <blu111-ds7007383c6e631f0c8867bcd...@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hard to say with such limited information, but my best guess would be a problem with component rule violations. You really don't give enough of the right information to make concrete diagnosis and give good advice. -----Original Message----- From: S.P [mailto:iraniangirl9...@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010 3:09 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] WiX problem on Vista Dear All, ? I have an installer which can have different versions such as V1.7, V1.8, etc. After installin each version, we have some problems with uninstalling it. When we uninstall V1.8, it also uninstalls V1.7 or disables it.? This is not on all machines.? The primary one we have seen the problem is on Vista.? Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of different machines to fully test this issue.But it works well on XP. ? Does anybody know the reason? ? Thanks in advance ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- -- 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 $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:29:56 +0200 From: Lukas Haase <lukasha...@gmx.at> Subject: [WiX-users] From DLL: UI mode and setup mode To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <i31mio$lr...@dough.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Hi, I looked at the docs at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368250%28VS.85%29.aspx but I could not find any information: Within a DLL extension for MSI, how can I found out ... a) In which UI mode I am (full, reduced, simple, no) b) If I am called in InstallUISequence or InstallExecuteSequence c) If I am called in setup mode, repair mode or uninstall mode? I need at least (c) because my function should only be called on a fresh install. I need (a) because in case of a full/reduced UI I want to have MsiProcessMessage, in the other cases I want to do "silent" action. Regards, Luke ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:51:30 -0700 From: "Blair" <os...@live.com> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] From DLL: UI mode and setup mode To: "'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'" <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <blu111-ds172b1e4add6d243b9eef3ecd...@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" a) - from http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa368281.aspx - UILevel property (read from session). Note that you can always safely call MsiProcessMessage. If the UI does not allow your message, it will be added to any log AND some sort of default response will be returned. b) - Not sure, but you can schedule actions such that they exist in both sequences yet only run once. c) - one solution to this is found here: http://code.dblock.org/ShowPost.aspx?id=42. The "canonical" way is to wait until after CostFinalize and then use either component or feature action/status states (pick either a feature or a component that relates to the action's target, and act based on both the current and the action state). -----Original Message----- From: Lukas Haase [mailto:lukasha...@gmx.at] Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010 10:30 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] From DLL: UI mode and setup mode Hi, I looked at the docs at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368250%28VS.85%29.aspx but I could not find any information: Within a DLL extension for MSI, how can I found out ... a) In which UI mode I am (full, reduced, simple, no) b) If I am called in InstallUISequence or InstallExecuteSequence c) If I am called in setup mode, repair mode or uninstall mode? I need at least (c) because my function should only be called on a fresh install. I need (a) because in case of a full/reduced UI I want to have MsiProcessMessage, in the other cases I want to do "silent" action. Regards, Luke ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- -- 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://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:44:51 -0700 From: Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX problem on Vista To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <aanlkti=dtaoj+fb1zypk4=va4nqc4hfnccaekdy9v...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 What does the verbose log file say? On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Blair <os...@live.com> wrote: > Hard to say with such limited information, but my best guess would be a > problem with component rule violations. You really don't give enough of the > right information to make concrete diagnosis and give good advice. > > -----Original Message----- > From: S.P [mailto:iraniangirl9...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010 3:09 AM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] WiX problem on Vista > > Dear All, > > I have an installer which can have different versions such as V1.7, V1.8, > etc. > After installin each version, we have some problems with uninstalling it. > When we uninstall V1.8, it also uninstalls V1.7 or disables it. This is > not > on all machines. The primary one we have seen the problem is on Vista. > Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of different machines to fully test this > issue.But it works well on XP. > > Does anybody know the reason? > > Thanks in advance > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- > -- > 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://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm > _______________________________________________ > 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://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > -- virtually, Rob Mensching - http://RobMensching.com LLC ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ 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. 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