Well, I have to correct myself: The Property element would not work in my case, I have to use SetProperty if I want to add BINLOCATION to the string:
<SetProperty Id="FileAssociationProperty" Value="[BINLOCATION]\$(env.MAIN_EXECUTABLE)" After="CostFinalize" /> Peter On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Peter Bulyaki <peter.buly...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your reply. A transform in this my would be too complicated - I > run my wix builds based on conditions set in environment variables, so I > would need a conditional transform. I am not saying it is impossible to do, > but since heat is run from the wixproj by votive, solving it like that > would give me some extra headache. Not to mention that I am not very > familiar with xslt. > > However, I have found another solution that works: instead of using > TargetFile, I use TargetProperty. > <Property Id='FileAssociationProperty' > Value="[BINLOCATION]\$(env.MAIN_EXECUTABLE)"/> > ... > <Verb Command="Open" Id="open" TargetProperty="FileAssociationProperty" > Argument="%1" /> > > In this case I do not need to use a File tag, and I can avoid the > component reference counting error. > > Peter > > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Blair <os...@live.com> wrote: > >> Add a transform to heat's commandline that adds the Verb. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Peter Bulyaki [mailto:peter.buly...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 8:27 AM >> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. >> Subject: [WiX-users] Problem with file association and harvesting files >> >> Hi, >> >> I have a project in which all files are harvested recursively from a >> single >> source folder. I would also like to add a file association to this project >> as below: >> >> <Component Id='FileAssociation' Guid="*"> >> <File Id="AssociatedExecutable" >> Name="$(env.MAIN_EXECUTABLE)" >> Source="$(env.SOURCEDIR_PROG)\bin\$(env.MAIN_EXECUTABLE)" >> KeyPath="yes"/> >> <ProgId Id="$(env.MAIN_EXECUTABLE)" >> Description="$(env.DESCRIPTION) files" Advertise="no" > >> <Extension Id="$(env.FILEASSOCIATION)" >> ContentType="application/$(env.FILEASSOCIATION)" Advertise="no" > >> <Verb Command="Open" Id="open" >> TargetFile="AssociatedExecutable" Argument="%1" /> >> </Extension> >> </ProgId> >> </Component> >> >> >> The problem with this is that the file referenced as >> $(env.MAIN_EXECUTABLE) >> has already been harvested by heat, and there is already a File element >> pointing to it. So I get the following error: >> >> error LGHT0204: ICE30: The target file '.....' is installed in >> '[ProgramFilesFolder]\....\....\bin\' by two different components on an >> LFN >> system: 'FileAssociation' and 'cmpEC461 517D65363F29020E8A217A316F4'. This >> breaks component reference counting. >> >> Is there any other way to tell the Verb element which file we are talking >> about? >> >> Peter >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> -- >> All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a >> definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, >> fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of >> it. >> IT sense. And common sense. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d >> _______________________________________________ >> WiX-users mailing list >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure >> contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, >> security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this >> data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d >> _______________________________________________ >> WiX-users mailing list >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
