I don't know if there's a better way than this, but you could certainly make
a custom action to do it using WMI. The Win32_Process class lets you see if
there's a process running of a certain name, command line, etc.
('Win32_Product', http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394372.aspx)
There's plenty of examples available for VBScript, e.g. Microsoft's
Scripting Guy articles
(http://blogs.msdn.com/gstemp/archive/2004/02/13/72505.aspx).
There's not so many examples for C++ and I found using it for WMI had a fair
learning curve at first, whereas with VBScript it's quite easy. Having
mentioned the VBScript temptation, now would be an appropriate time to
insert a reminder of all the experts' warnings to avoid VBScript and use C++
DLLs for custom actions. ('VBScript (and Jscript) MSI CustomActions suck'
http://blogs.msdn.com/robmen/archive/2004/05/20/136530.aspx)
Daryn
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Gurney
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 2:33 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Is there a WiX element that will perform a
"FindWindow"?
I'd like to find out if an application is running. I don't want to close
the application. This is more of a boolean action that I am looking for.
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