Re: [WiX-users] How to create help file shortcut icon?
The point appears to be moot - For whatever reason, WiX is picking up the proper help icons correctly without needing any whacked shortcut associations. Not sure why InstallShield fails at this. On Jan 8, 2008 2:13 PM, Mike Dimmick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No you _can't_. That will embed hh.exe, which isn't yours to redistribute, in your MSI. You could open hh.exe in a resource editor (e.g. in Visual Studio, go to File Open File, select the file, then click the down-arrow next to Open and select Open With..., then pick Resource Editor from the list) then copy the icon to a file (e.g. right-click it and choose Export.) You can then embed it in your own resource-only DLL. That's still dodgy from a copyright perspective but I don't think there's any way to just get Windows Installer to use the icon for the associated file type (which is ridiculous). Microsoft's position on cloning icons for standard metaphors, so that icons are used consistently across the whole system, has generally been permissive, however. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SaiTeja Sent: 08 January 2008 04:40 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to create help file shortcut icon? You can use hh.exe C:\windows\hh.exe as source. - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- -Chris - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How to create help file shortcut icon?
No you _can't_. That will embed hh.exe, which isn't yours to redistribute, in your MSI. You could open hh.exe in a resource editor (e.g. in Visual Studio, go to File Open File, select the file, then click the down-arrow next to Open and select Open With..., then pick Resource Editor from the list) then copy the icon to a file (e.g. right-click it and choose Export.) You can then embed it in your own resource-only DLL. That's still dodgy from a copyright perspective but I don't think there's any way to just get Windows Installer to use the icon for the associated file type (which is ridiculous). Microsoft's position on cloning icons for standard metaphors, so that icons are used consistently across the whole system, has generally been permissive, however. -- Mike Dimmick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of SaiTeja Sent: 08 January 2008 04:40 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to create help file shortcut icon? You can use hh.exe C:\windows\hh.exe as source. - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How to create help file shortcut icon?
You can use hh.exe C:\windows\hh.exe as source. DEÁK JAHN, Gábor-2 wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 08:57:04 -0800, Chris Weiss wrote: Chris, the problem of creating a help icon for my .CHM shortcut. Should I be creating a single DLL that only contains the help icon (and if I copy the one from WinHlp32.exe, am I violating some sort of Microsoft copyright)? Yes, create a small DLL with only the icon. I don't know about the copyright issues but there are lots of free icons to be downloaded from the net, they usually come with the standard icon set redesigned and they will have a question mark icon for sure. Their copyright status might be easier to check. Bye, Gábor --- DEÁK JAHN, Gábor -- Budapest, Hungary E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-create-help-file-shortcut-icon--tp14589145p14682390.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How to create help file shortcut icon?
On Jan 2, 2008 4:22 PM, Mike Dimmick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you specify in the Icon elements gets incorporated in your .msi as a binary at build time, so it should be something you have control over, not attempting to use a system executable. The warning message is described in the documentation for the Icon table, where it states: Icon files that are associated with shortcuts must be in the EXE binary format and must be named such that their extension matches the extension of the target. The shortcut will not work if this rule is not followed. For example, if a shortcut is to point to a resource having the key file Red.bar, then the icon file must also have the extension .bar. Multiple icons can be stuffed into the same icon file as long as all of the target files have the same extension. The Id attribute is used for the icon file's name when it is extracted onto the system. So you should use something like: Icon Id=helpicon.chm SourceFile=myhelpicon.dll / Thanks for the reply, but I'm even more confused now... Doesn't the above code violate the above paragraph? Having the icon for a *.chm pointing to a *.dll? I'm still not sure how to solve the problem of creating a help icon for my .CHM shortcut. Should I be creating a single DLL that only contains the help icon (and if I copy the one from WinHlp32.exe, am I violating some sort of Microsoft copyright)? Is there some way to have the icon point to a file that's already installed? Surely others have solved this, what was your solution? -- -Chris - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] How to create help file shortcut icon?
What you specify in the Icon elements gets incorporated in your .msi as a
binary at build time, so it should be something you have control over, not
attempting to use a system executable.
The warning message is described in the documentation for the Icon table,
where it states:
Icon files that are associated with shortcuts must be in the EXE binary
format and must be named such that their extension matches the extension of
the target. The shortcut will not work if this rule is not followed. For
example, if a shortcut is to point to a resource having the key file
Red.bar, then the icon file must also have the extension .bar. Multiple
icons can be stuffed into the same icon file as long as all of the target
files have the same extension.
The Id attribute is used for the icon file's name when it is extracted onto
the system. So you should use something like:
Icon Id=helpicon.chm SourceFile=myhelpicon.dll /
When they say the EXE binary format they actually mean a Portable Executable
file - a resource-only DLL is acceptable. It does not actually have to be
executable.
--
Mike Dimmick
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Weiss
Sent: 03 January 2008 00:06
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] How to create help file shortcut icon?
When we created help file shortcuts in the start menu using
InstallShield, we had to manually set the icon to
System32\WinHlp32.exe. If I try to do this with WiX, it complains that
the extension of icon 'xyz' for shortcut 'abc' does not match the
extension of the Key File for component 'foo.chm'.
How does one go about getting a nice help icon in the start menu?
My code looks more or less like this:
Component Id=APPHELP.chm
Guid={91CD65F1-FAA3-42FD-9E1A-DDED9FA65CAC}
File Id=APPHELP.chm Name=APPHELP.chm KeyPath=yes
Source=..\APPHELP.chm /
RemoveFolder Id=NewShortcut1 Directory=newfolder1
On=uninstall /
Shortcut Id=NewShortcut1 Directory=newfolder1
Name=Application Help ShortName=APPHELP Icon=helpicon
IconIndex=1 Show=normal Advertise=yes /
/Component
...
Icon Id=helpicon SourceFile=$(env.windir)\system32\winhlp32.exe /
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