Advertised Shortcuts point at the KeyPath of the Component they are contained
in. You need to put the Advertised Shortcut in the same Component as the
target File and the File must be the KeyPath. That's a Windows Installer
restriction.
If you want to put your Shortcut in a different Component then you can't use
Advertised.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
OneReallyCoolApplication
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 15:57
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Problems attempting to advertise a shortcut
Hi, I am trying to create an advertised desktop shortcut. The problem is that
in the component containing the shortcut, I cannot set KeyPath = yes, or
else I will get errors with the ORCA validation tool and the advertising
doesn't work. If I set KeyPath = no, then I must have a file under the
component that has KeyPath = yes, and a shortcut under that file. However
this is extraneous since that file is also installed somewhere else in my
code, and there are problems with opening that shortcut after it has been
installed. Before I just had the shortcut directly under the shortcut's
component (it was non-advertised), and it worked fine.
My code looks like the following:
Directory Id=DesktopFolder Name=Desktop
/Directory
Directory Id=PROGDIR Name=PROG_.3 LongName=prog-1.3.3
Component Id=ProgShortcut Guid=... KeyPath=no
File Id=ProgShortcutFile Name=Prog.exe
Source=..\Prog.exe DiskId=8 Vital=no KeyPath=yes
Shortcut Id=ProgShortcut Directory=DesktopFolder
Name=Prog WorkingDirectory=... Icon=ProgIcon.exe Advertise=yes
Icon Id=ProgIcon.exe SourceFile=..\Prog.exe /
/Shortcut
/File
/Component
/Directory
The program is Prog and ... represents some GUID (for simplicity).
Thanks for any help.
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