John Apologies from stating the obvious but why not just remove the option to run after install altogether.
That way, it does not matter if a reboot is required or not. Chris On 01/25/2011 02:43 PM, John Lalande wrote: > Is there some way to run my custom action in the UI sequence just > before the exit dialog is displayed? > > Or perhaps I am doing this completely wrong and there is another, more > logical approach? > > Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:53:23 -0800 > From: Blair<os...@live.com> > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] suppressing start on exit > To: "'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'" > <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Message-ID:<blu111-ds11371dcb372ebfab86e221cd...@phx.gbl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Properties set in the Execute sequence are not reflected back into the UI > sequence. > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Lalande [mailto:johnlala...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 8:13 AM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] suppressing start on exit > > My installer has a check box on the final panel that starts the > application when the Finish button is clicked. However, I would like > this option to not be available if there is a reboot scheduled. > > I have a custom action that sets a property named "PENDINGREBOOT" to > '1' and conditions on the check-box show action that suppress the > check box and value accordingly. I have confirmed this works by > explicitly setting PENDINGREBOOT to '1'. > > However, with my custom action scheduled in the > InstallExecuteSequence, the installation log shows that PENDINGREBOOT > is being set to '1', but my condition is not hiding the check box. > > When I view the log using the Windows Installer Verbose Log Analyzer > (wilogutil.exe), it shows my property PENDINGREBOOT in the Server > properties tab but not Client. > > Do I need to do something special I need to do to use my property in a > dialog when it is set in the InstallExecuteSequence? Or should this > just work? > > John > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! > Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! > Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires > February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
