Re: [WiX-users] Command Line Parameters to Deferred Custom Action on Vista
Briefly, CustomActionData is a parameter passing scheme to get property values passed to a deferred custom action. SecureCustomProperties is a list of properties that you want to pass from the UI sequence (where you probably collected their values) across the context boundary into the execute sequence. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: Superfreak3 [mailto:matt.wal...@synergis.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:59 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Command Line Parameters to Deferred Custom Action on Vista So what exactly is the difference between SecureCustomProperties and CustomActionData? I still do not fully understand this. We have a public property that holds a string that we write to the registry in certain cases. Is is held in the Property table. Let's say it contains 8.1.2.3 and is called OURVERSION. I have a little widget that runs near the end of the install that tests the condition for the registry edit and edits accordingly. I used a Set Property custom action sequenced in the Immediate Sequence to set the above mentioned property to something like PASSDATAACTION. Then, in the Deferrec Sequence action, I reference CustomActionData that now holds the value I passed. All seems to work OK here. I then thought, lets add the original property, OURVERSION, to SecureCustomProperties and just reference that directly as a parameter in my Deferred action, guess what. This works too. So, I'm unclear as to the true purpose of each. I know this really is off WiX topic, but I've gotten great help here before so any now is greatly appreciated. The scenario described above may not be exactly what is going on, but just to give an example. Thanks in advance for any help!! -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Command-Line-Parameters-to-Deferred-Custom-Action-on-Vista-tp2652448p733.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users *** Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any associated or attached files, is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail is confidential and may well also be legally privileged. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy it or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person. This email comes from a division of the Invensys Group, owned by Invensys plc, which is a company registered in England and Wales with its registered office at 3rd Floor, 40 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7AW (Registered number 166023). For a list of European legal entities within the Invensys Group, please go to http://www.invensys.com/legal/default.asp?top_nav_id=77&nav_id=80&prev_id=77. You may contact Invensys plc on +44 (0)20 3155 1200 or e-mail recept...@invensys.com. This e-mail and any attachments thereto may be subject to the terms of any agreements between Invensys (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates) and the recipient (and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates). -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Command Line Parameters to Deferred Custom Action on Vista
So what exactly is the difference between SecureCustomProperties and CustomActionData? I still do not fully understand this. We have a public property that holds a string that we write to the registry in certain cases. Is is held in the Property table. Let's say it contains 8.1.2.3 and is called OURVERSION. I have a little widget that runs near the end of the install that tests the condition for the registry edit and edits accordingly. I used a Set Property custom action sequenced in the Immediate Sequence to set the above mentioned property to something like PASSDATAACTION. Then, in the Deferrec Sequence action, I reference CustomActionData that now holds the value I passed. All seems to work OK here. I then thought, lets add the original property, OURVERSION, to SecureCustomProperties and just reference that directly as a parameter in my Deferred action, guess what. This works too. So, I'm unclear as to the true purpose of each. I know this really is off WiX topic, but I've gotten great help here before so any now is greatly appreciated. The scenario described above may not be exactly what is going on, but just to give an example. Thanks in advance for any help!! -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Command-Line-Parameters-to-Deferred-Custom-Action-on-Vista-tp2652448p733.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Command Line Parameters to Deferred Custom Action on Vista
For deferred custom actions you pass parameters through CustomActionData. See http://blogs.technet.com/alexshev/archive/2008/03/25/property-does-not-exist-or-empty-when-accessed-from-deferred-custom-action.aspx for details. Alex -Original Message- From: Rajesh P [mailto:rajeshp.bl...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 12:15 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Command Line Parameters to Deferred Custom Action on Vista Hi, I am developing a WiX installer for Vista. I have a requirement to send some command line parameters to a Deferred Cusom action. My inital attempts to send the parameters using public property as follows have failed: I tried : msiexec /i myinstaller.msi CMDLINEPROPERTY="arg1 arg2 arg3" But till now i have not been able to get these arguments reach my custom action where i am calling MSIGetProperty() go retrievet the property value. I even tried reading the value from CustomActionData property , but no success yet. If anyone has successfully achieved this on a Vista platform , please help me !! Thanking you in Advance, Rajesh -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Command Line Parameters to Deferred Custom Action on Vista
Rajesh P wrote: > I am developing a WiX installer for Vista. I have a requirement to send some > command line parameters to a Deferred Cusom action. > Then you must use CustomActionData; deferred custom actions can't otherwise get property values. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] Command Line Parameters to Deferred Custom Action on Vista
If you are referencing that property in a custom action in the InstallExecute sequence you need to add it to the SecureCustomProperties list - this gets properties and their values across the UI=>Execute sequence boundary. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: Rajesh P [mailto:rajeshp.bl...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 12:15 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Command Line Parameters to Deferred Custom Action on Vista Hi, I am developing a WiX installer for Vista. I have a requirement to send some command line parameters to a Deferred Cusom action. My inital attempts to send the parameters using public property as follows have failed: I tried : msiexec /i myinstaller.msi CMDLINEPROPERTY="arg1 arg2 arg3" But till now i have not been able to get these arguments reach my custom action where i am calling MSIGetProperty() go retrievet the property value. I even tried reading the value from CustomActionData property , but no success yet. If anyone has successfully achieved this on a Vista platform , please help me !! Thanking you in Advance, Rajesh -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] Command Line Parameters to Deferred Custom Action on Vista
Hi, I am developing a WiX installer for Vista. I have a requirement to send some command line parameters to a Deferred Cusom action. My inital attempts to send the parameters using public property as follows have failed: I tried : msiexec /i myinstaller.msi CMDLINEPROPERTY="arg1 arg2 arg3" But till now i have not been able to get these arguments reach my custom action where i am calling MSIGetProperty() go retrievet the property value. I even tried reading the value from CustomActionData property , but no success yet. If anyone has successfully achieved this on a Vista platform , please help me !! Thanking you in Advance, Rajesh -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
