That actually looks like exactly what I want... much cleaner than my C++
hackjob.
That gives me a followup question, however. I plugged your suggestion
(with Depth="0") into my dialog I use to browse to the directory that
contains the file.
It appears that the property I'm trying to set to the browsed-to
directory doesn't contain the browsed-to directory when the
DirectorySearch is performed.
<Dialog Id="GetExistingFilesDlg" Width="370" Height="270"
Title="[ProductName] [Setup]" NoMinimize="yes">
<Control Id="PathEdit" Type="PathEdit" X="84" Y="202"
Width="261" Height="18" Property="MYFOLDER"/>
<Control Id="Next" Type="PushButton" X="236" Y="243" Width="56"
Height="17" Default="yes" Text="Next">
<Property Id="MYFILEEXISTS">
<DirectorySearch Id="MyDirSearch"
Path="[MYFOLDER]" Depth="0">
<FileSearch Id="MyFileSearch"
Name="requiredfile.txt" />
</DirectorySearch>
</Property>
<Publish Event="SpawnDialog" Value="InvalidDirDlg">NOT
MYFILEEXISTS</Publish>
<Publish Event="NewDialog"
Value="SetupTypeDlg">MYFILEEXISTS</Publish>
</Control>
I initialized MYFOLDER with <Property Id='MYFOLDER' Value='c:\' />
This works if requiredfile.txt is in c:\ (I can see
MYFILEEXISTS=c:\requiredfile.txt in the log)
It doesn't work if I browse to the directory that contains the file (and
of course I remove the file from c:\ )
Thanks for the help so far, this feels like a much better way than what
I was previously attempting.
________________________________
From: Levi Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 3:50 PM
To: Rowland, Chris
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] verify file existance custom action
Can you post your CA C++ code? Also, you don't need to have a DLL
custom action to check for the existence of a file. You can do
something like this in your WiX source:
<Property Id="MyFileExists">
<DirectorySearch Id="MyDirSearch" Path="some path here" Depth="1">
<FileSearch Id="MyFileSearch" Name="myfile.extension" />
</DirectorySearch>
</Property>
If the file has been found, then the MyFileExists property will be set
to the full path of your file. Is this what you're looking for?
On 3/15/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I read that "managed code" in a custom action is a no-no (please forgive
me if I use the wrong terminology) so I am attempting to write my custom
action without using managed code. Most examples I find seem to use it,
however, so I'm doing the best I can.
I wrote a simple VC++ app (.exe) that will determine if some files
exist. I probably did it badly, but it worked in that context.
I took the same code, and cut& paste into a VC++ file I had setup to
create my dll.
The code was previously a working snippet that would simply set a msi
property to "true" and return ERROR_SUCCESS.
I am now trying to make it do something useful.
After the cut& paste I got some build errors and followed (somewhat) the
steps listed here to resolve them.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=814472
The dll built successfully, but when I run the installer I get error
2896, "Executing action [2] failed." That doesn't tell me too much.
I stepped backwards until I had one line that I could comment/uncomment
to make the dll work(return "true")/not work(error 2896)
The one line that causes it to fail (and concequently causes the dll to
double in size) is:
ifstream fin1(filename);
Down the road I was doing 'if (fin1.good())' to see if the file exists
(like I said, probably a bad way, but it was the first thing I did that
seemed to work)
Is attempting to do this fundamentally wrong?
Also, I'm running the installer with /l* but I'm still not getting
anything particularly helpful. Are there better techniques for
debugging?
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