Re: [WiX-users] Expanding an env var at install time when writing to the registry

2009-12-22 Thread Rob Mensching
Ahh, that makes sense. The example I read didn't... but of course I was calling you Brian so who knows what I was really thinking. On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Markus Gaugusch wrote: > Hi Rob, > > (You probably ment me, because I don't know who Brian is ;-) > I needed to set a property to t

Re: [WiX-users] Expanding an env var at install time when writing to the registry

2009-12-18 Thread Markus Gaugusch
Hi Rob, (You probably ment me, because I don't know who Brian is ;-) I needed to set a property to the value of an environment variable because I wanted to populate an input field with it. I didn't see any other solution. Markus On Dec 17, Rob Mensching wrote: > Brian, Why are you using a Pr

Re: [WiX-users] Expanding an env var at install time when writing to the registry

2009-12-18 Thread Blair
these patterns in creating your registry entries. Otherwise, use [%env-var]. -Original Message- From: Markus Gaugusch [mailto:w...@gaugusch.at] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:52 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Expanding an env

Re: [WiX-users] Expanding an env var at install time when writing to the registry

2009-12-17 Thread Rob Mensching
Brian, Why are you using a Property to set another Property? Why not just use [%MY_ENV_VAR] where you would use [MY_ENV_PROPERTY]? Bruce, 1. You can refer to the install location of a file in your MSI using the [!FileId] syntax. 2. Under ProgramFilesFolder is where you should install your appli

Re: [WiX-users] Expanding an env var at install time when writing to the registry

2009-12-15 Thread Markus Gaugusch
On Dec 15, Bruce Cran wrote: > I've written an installer with WiX 3.5 which installs a Winsock > provider, netsh helper and a kernel driver. After doing some > restructuring I started getting a warning about installing a > non-permanant component into system32, so I'm now trying to change the >

[WiX-users] Expanding an env var at install time when writing to the registry

2009-12-15 Thread Bruce Cran
I've written an installer with WiX 3.5 which installs a Winsock provider, netsh helper and a kernel driver. After doing some restructuring I started getting a warning about installing a non-permanant component into system32, so I'm now trying to change the installation location to be under %Progra