Re: [WiX-users] WiX Bundle - Hide Text on Options page, based on Pre-processer variable

2015-02-17 Thread Tall Tyke
Hi Sean, Many thanks for your help ... worked a treat !! Cheers, Chris. -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/WiX-Bundle-Hide-Text-on-Options-page-based-on-Pre-processer-variable-tp7599226p7599246.html Sent from the wix-users mailing l

[WiX-users] WiX Bundle - Hide Text on Options page, based on Pre-processer variable

2015-02-14 Thread Tall Tyke
Hi, I have a WiX 3.9 bootsrapper project based on the StandardBootstrapperApplication and it has this line on the "Install" page : The project has a pre-processer variable called "Flavour" accessed as $(var.FLAVOUR) Now I only want that line to appear on the Install page when $(var.FLAVOUR)=F

Re: [WiX-users] WiX Burn Chain - multiple packages writing to same ini file

2015-02-07 Thread Tall Tyke
Well no one has replied to this - which is sort of good, as I discovered what [stupid] thing I was doing !! I temporarily put my "developers hat" on for a while instead of my "installers hat" and thought that as I had multiple msi projects all doing a similar thing ( writing different values to th

[WiX-users] WiX Burn Chain - multiple packages writing to same ini file

2015-02-06 Thread Tall Tyke
Hi, In my setup suite; I have the following files, all living on a network share : ClientSetup.exe ( a Wix Bundle ) PreReqs.exe ( a Wix Bundle ) Main.msi ( Wix msi ) MyStuff.ini When ClientSetup.exe is run - WHAT IT IS SUPPOSED TO DO IS - it calls an internal msi ( ie compressed into exe ) which

[WiX-users] WiX MSI or Bundle - calling Windows Explorer with a specified folder

2015-02-04 Thread Tall Tyke
Hi, I posted a question yesterday, which was a bit bizarre and didn't get any responses - so we have changed tack a bit and now want our installer ( either a WiX 3.9 MSI or our bundle ) to run "Windows Explorer" opening up at a folder path with give it - is that possible ? Cheers, Chris. -- V

[WiX-users] Can a bundle run another bundle that it didn't directly install ?

2015-02-03 Thread Tall Tyke
Hi, I appreciate that the subject heading might sound weird; but I'll try to explain what I'm trying to do ! I'm using WiX 3.9 and burn etc and I have a Bootstrapper (MainSetup.exe) that accepts an install folder (eg C:\MyApp\Installers) and then runs a msi (passing in the folder) and then the ms

Re: [WiX-users] WiX Installer - Copy folder from DVD to HDD and then run bootstrapper from HDD folder

2015-01-30 Thread Tall Tyke
oops Phill, sorry I missed off the second "l" in your name !! -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/WiX-Installer-Copy-folder-from-DVD-to-HDD-and-then-run-bootstrapper-from-HDD-folder-tp7599027p7599080.html Sent from the wix-users mailing

Re: [WiX-users] WiX Installer - Copy folder from DVD to HDD and then run bootstrapper from HDD folder

2015-01-30 Thread Tall Tyke
Walt & Phil - sorry I didn't reply earlier; been a bit snowed under ( with work, not the real white stuff ! ) - but many thanks for both your replies; they have certainly put me on the right path - my installer now does create the folder and "installs" ( well copies ) the installers into it. Not

Re: [WiX-users] WiX Installer - Copy folder from DVD to HDD and then run bootstrapper from HDD folder

2015-01-27 Thread Tall Tyke
Hi Phil, Thanks for the reply, but I may not have made it clear why we need to use a folder that the user has decided what it is called. The folder that the “installers” folder is copied to and the installers run from, will be a local folder on the PC for the first user, but then that folder will

[WiX-users] WiX Installer - Copy folder from DVD to HDD and then run bootstrapper from HDD folder

2015-01-27 Thread Tall Tyke
I currently have a bootsrapper exe and a msi (the latter rarely changes, but the former gets updated regularly), both written in WiX 3.9 and we now have a request to make the install process even easier for the user, so I was wondering if the following scenario is possible ?! The DVD folder struct

[WiX-users] WiX Boot Strapper - Pass value from EditBox to util:RegistrySearch

2014-08-18 Thread Tall Tyke
I'm using WiX 3.8 to create a Boot Strapper and have added a new EditBox to the Options page, to allow the user to enter a database instance name and I use this to install SQL Express 2014 and create an instance for the user. This works fine ! In bundle.wxs : In my Theme xml file, for th

[WiX-users] WiX Burn - Conditionally install MSI if it exists and not complain if it doesn't exist

2014-08-12 Thread Tall Tyke
Hi, We have 3 flavours of our product and thus 3 separate msi's - ProductA.msi, ProductB.msi & ProductC.msi and a bootstrapper exe that installs various common pre-requisites for all the flavours of the product. At the moment, we ship a copy of the bootstrapper and one of the msi to our customers