Re: [WiX-users] Propogating Environmnet variables

2012-12-18 Thread Chad Petersen
That Windows for you. Existing CMD consoles don't get updated environment variables. Happens with no installer involved, too. For example, open a CMD Prompt. Then go to your Environment variables and alter your Path. The altered Path won't show up in the running CMD Prompt, but new CMD Prompts w

Re: [WiX-users] Propogating Environmnet variables

2012-12-17 Thread Neil Sleightholm
That is how environment variables work, the variables are only read when the environment is started. IIRC you can write applications that monitor for WM_SETTINGCHANGE and update themselves but the standard consoles don't. Neil -Original Message- From: Mita Patel [mailto:mpa...@esri.com]

Re: [WiX-users] Propogating Environmnet variables

2012-12-17 Thread Rob Mensching
I thought MSI did the send message thing itself and that console windows are never affected by it. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mita Patel wrote: > We are having issues propagating the environment variables. The setup has > a custom action that propagates the environment using the > SendMe