I've been trying to figure out how to copy some files located in the directory the msi file is being run from to the Install directory, the big problem being that I couldn't find an easy way to fetch the value of the source directory.
SourceDir leads to the root of the drive and CURRENTDIRECTORY isn't accessible through Wix. Searching through the archives let to a lot of suggestions involving the msi property OriginalDatabase, however that includes the file name so there is the added complication of writing a custom action to strip that off. While looking through the log files after some experiments however I noticed that SourceDir starts at the actual Source directory before being truncated to just the root. I managed to use the following custom action to grab the value before the truncation happens: <CustomAction Id="ResetSetupDir" Property="SETUPDIR" Value="[SourceDir]" /> and in AdminUISequence: <Custom Action="ResetSetupDir" Before="ExecuteAction">NOT Installed</Custom> Since I didn't see that suggestion in response to any of the previous similar questions I thought it might be useful to share. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
