He-he, nope, this references the local TEMP as well, I've tried this. I've also browsed the forums for this info, and the best approach I've found so far is to search the system registry for the key HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment, and the value TEMP underneath.
This works for me, but maybe others know about the drawbacks of this approach? I would really like to know if there's any. Thank you. -- Yan -----Original Message----- From: Wilson, Phil [mailto:phil.wil...@wonderware.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 10:29 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to reference a system environment variable? The MSI way to get this would be [%TEMP] (formatted type in Windows Installer) so you just need to get that in your WiX source somewhere. Phil Wilson -----Original Message----- From: Yan Sklyarenko [mailto:y...@sitecore.net] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 8:07 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] How to reference a system environment variable? Hello WiX community, That's a really newbie question. I need to set permissions to the TEMP folder, the one stated in the system TEMP environment variable. I was trying this way: <!-- Setting permissions to the environment Temp folder --> <DirectoryRef Id="TempFolder"> <Component DiskId="1" Id="TempComp" Guid="{YOURGUID-GOES-HERE-B106-B9D9705E01D7}" Permanent="yes"> <CreateFolder> <util:PermissionEx ... /> </CreateFolder> </Component> </DirectoryRef> But this way it references the user-specific TEMP variable, the one under Documents & Settings. Could you please point me to the right direction? Thanks. -- Yan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
