Re: [WiX-users] Accessing the install directory from within a merge module

[Younie, Bradford]

> Hi,
> > In a merge module, I'm trying to create an environment 
> variable that 
> > contains the path to where the product is being installed 
> to. My merge 
> > module uses the code below to do it, but it's not working 
> quite right.
> > When the product gets installed to "c:\program 
> files\mycompany\myapp", 
> > [TARGETDIR] in the merge module only puts "C:\" into the 
> environment 
> > variable even though the product does install to the full path. Is 
> > there a different way to handle this?
> >   
> Have you tried using INSTALLDIR instead of TARGETDIR?
> 
> It should match the configurable directory of your application:
>  Display='expand' Level='1' ConfigurableDirectory='INSTALLDIR'>
> 
> Because that is the property that gets sets when the user 
> chooses a folder to install the application in.


That did it! I had tried INSTALLDIR before, but it was always set to
nothing. It was the ConfigurableDirectory that did the trick!

Thanks

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Re: [WiX-users] Accessing the install directory from within a merge module

[Kim Gybels]

Hi,
> In a merge module, I'm trying to create an environment variable that
> contains the path to where the product is being installed to. My merge
> module uses the code below to do it, but it's not working quite right.
> When the product gets installed to "c:\program files\mycompany\myapp",
> [TARGETDIR] in the merge module only puts "C:\" into the environment
> variable even though the product does install to the full path. Is there
> a different way to handle this?
>   
Have you tried using INSTALLDIR instead of TARGETDIR?

It should match the configurable directory of your application:


Because that is the property that gets sets when the user chooses a 
folder to install the application in.

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[WiX-users] Accessing the install directory from within a merge module

[Younie, Bradford]

In a merge module, I'm trying to create an environment variable that
contains the path to where the product is being installed to. My merge
module uses the code below to do it, but it's not working quite right.
When the product gets installed to "c:\program files\mycompany\myapp",
[TARGETDIR] in the merge module only puts "C:\" into the environment
variable even though the product does install to the full path. Is there
a different way to handle this?
 


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