Re: [WiX-users] Parent Directory (2 levels up)

2007-07-30 Thread Levon Levonian
I thought about it, but I get the pattern constraint error

Error   4   The Directory/@Name attribute's value, '..\..\[DIR]', is
not a valid long name because it contains illegal characters.  Legal
long names contain no more than 260 characters and must contain at least
one non-period character.  Any character except for the follow may be
used: \ ? |   : / * .

Any ideas? Thanks!


-Original Message-
From: Bob Arnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 12:27
To: Levon Levonian
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Parent Directory (2 levels up)

Levon Levonian wrote:
 My installer needs to read a value from the registry and set the
install
 path based on that value. However, the installer should install 2
levels
 up the value that was read from the registry. For example, I read the
 registry and get the following:

 C:\Temp\First\Second

 And I want my configurable directory be set only to C:\Temp (that is,
2
 levels up the directory that I got from the registry).
   

You can try using [DIR]..\..\ though I'm not sure if that will work 
everywhere.

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Re: [WiX-users] Parent Directory (2 levels up)

2007-07-30 Thread Bob Arnson
Levon Levonian wrote:
 I thought about it, but I get the pattern constraint error

 Error 4   The Directory/@Name attribute's value, '..\..\[DIR]', is
 not a valid long name because it contains illegal characters.  Legal
 long names contain no more than 260 characters and must contain at least
 one non-period character.  Any character except for the follow may be
 used: \ ? |   : / * .  
   

You can't use it in a Directory element. Try a CustomAction with 
Property and Value attributes to set it.

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Re: [WiX-users] Parent Directory (2 levels up)

2007-07-28 Thread Bob Arnson
Levon Levonian wrote:
 My installer needs to read a value from the registry and set the install
 path based on that value. However, the installer should install 2 levels
 up the value that was read from the registry. For example, I read the
 registry and get the following:

 C:\Temp\First\Second

 And I want my configurable directory be set only to C:\Temp (that is, 2
 levels up the directory that I got from the registry).
   

You can try using [DIR]..\..\ though I'm not sure if that will work 
everywhere.

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