Re: [WiX-users] Launching a CHM

2006-09-29 Thread Bob Arnson
Rob Mensching wrote: > So does that mean you are writing it, Bob? > I'll happily put it on my ever-growing list. Maybe even in the top 10, as I think this would be a very useful CA. But that still puts it somewhere in 2009. -- sig://boB http://bobs.org ---

Re: [WiX-users] Launching a CHM

2006-09-29 Thread Rob Mensching
So does that mean you are writing it, Bob? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Arnson Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 18:49 To: Wilson, Phil Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Launching a CHM Wilson, Phil

Re: [WiX-users] Launching a CHM

2006-09-29 Thread Rob Mensching
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Arnson Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 18:49 To: Wilson, Phil Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Launching a CHM Wilson, Phil wrote: > If Wix actually > has a bu

Re: [WiX-users] Launching a CHM

2006-09-28 Thread Bob Arnson
Wilson, Phil wrote: > If Wix actually > has a built-in custom action that does a shell open on a file then it > would work for probably all these situations, whether it's a URL, a text > file, an RTF file, chm, mp3, wav, csv, and so on, and it would use the > app that the user wanted, not that one

Re: [WiX-users] Launching a CHM

2006-09-28 Thread Wilson, Phil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Robbins Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 2:39 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Launching a CHM I'm not a WiX or install expert by any means, but this worked for me: (NOT Installed) AND

Re: [WiX-users] Launching a CHM

2006-09-28 Thread John Robbins
; Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:35:03 -0700 > To: > Conversation: [WiX-users] Launching a CHM > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Launching a CHM > > The general approach to this is to do whatever it takes to run a > ShellExcute "open" on the file. For doc, chm, html or whatever >

Re: [WiX-users] Launching a CHM

2006-09-28 Thread Wilson, Phil
ute() that takes "open" and file path, among other things. Phil Wilson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Young, Jason (GE Indust, GE Fanuc) Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 11:40 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [

[WiX-users] Launching a CHM

2006-09-28 Thread Young, Jason (GE Indust, GE Fanuc)
I've been banging my head all day trying to figure out how to launch a CHM at the end of my install. I'm trying to use a custom action, and I got it to work for an EXE, but not the CHM. I would like to load it based on a FileKey if possible. I don't really understand what the documentation means