You will need to calculate/retrieve INSTALLDIR via a custom action you run before AppSearch, or use some directory other than INSTALLDIR for our EXE_EXISTS property.
Since you only run that EXE when it was previously present, is that EXE placed there using a previous installer package? Could you use a ComponentSearch to locate the directory (or even the EXE itself)? -----Original Message----- From: puyo puy [mailto:puyo...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 12:06 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 FileSearch Hi Blair, Thank you for your help. I checked the log file. AppSearch(property EXE_EXISTS) was set before INSTALLDIR but CA_RunEXE was called after INSTALLDIR set. Execute Sequences: ======== 1. AppSearch property EXE_EXISTS assigned 2. Property INSTALLDIR assigned 2. CA_RunEXE custom action evaluated but not called becase the codition failed. <Custom Action="CA_RunEXE" After="InstallInitialize">EXE_EXISTS</Custom> If I execute msiexec with INSTALLDIR parameter e.g.: msiexec /i test.msi /l*vx test.log installdir="C:\Program Files\Company\Product\" my custom action call sucessfully. Can anyone know how to fix this problem? Thanks Jeff --- On Mon, 14/9/09, Blair <os...@live.com> wrote: From: Blair <os...@live.com> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 FileSearch To: "'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'" <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Received: Monday, 14 September, 2009, 9:17 PM INSTALLDIR may be set before your CA_RunEXE custom action runs (it will be set by the time the standard action CostFinalize runs if it wasn't set explicitly before, because CostFinalize populates all the properties identified in the Directory table) but it may not be set when the standard AppSearch runs, and that was the question Sebastian asked. Can you confirm that INSTALLDIR is set before the AppSearch action runs? Please search a debug verbose log for INSTALLDIR to see when it is first set, and if that is before AppSearch or after. -----Original Message----- From: puyo puy [mailto:puyo...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 1:11 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 FileSearch Hi, Can someone from WIX confirm that is a bug or I did something wrong. Thanks Jeff --- On Fri, 11/9/09, puyo puy <puyo...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: puyo puy <puyo...@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 FileSearch To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Received: Friday, 11 September, 2009, 9:29 AM Hi Sebastian Thank you for your quick reply. Yes, I'm sure that INSTALLDIR was set before called. I added extract custom action before execute CA_RunEXE to display the property INSTALLDIR to the log file and I can see the value is correct. I copy that value and replaced Path="[INSTALLDIR]" to Path="C:\Program Files\Company\Product\" and it works. Function LogMsg Dim rec Set rec = Session.Installer.CreateRecord(1) rec.StringData(0) = Session.Property("INSTALLDIR") LogInfo = Session.Message(&H04000000, rec) End function I also tried your suggestion to remove @Id from FileSearch but still doesn't works. <FileSearch Name="APP.exe" /> Thanks Jeff --- On Thu, 10/9/09, Sebastian Brand (Instyler Software) <wix+us...@instyler.com> wrote: From: Sebastian Brand (Instyler Software) <wix+us...@instyler.com> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 FileSearch To: "'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'" <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Received: Thursday, 10 September, 2009, 6:33 PM Hello, Are you sure the INSTALLDIR property is set already when the FileSearch begins? Also try removing the @Id from the FileSearch, I remember there was an issue with that when trying to get sub-directories. Best regards, Sebastian Brand Instyler Setup - Creating WiX-based MSI installations, elegantly. http://www.instyler.com -----Original Message----- From: puyo puy [mailto:puyo...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:31 To: wix users Subject: [WiX-users] Wix 3.0 FileSearch Hi there, I'm trying to create msi installer using wix and this installer will search for old application for current install location. When the old application found, a custom action will execute the old application. I used the following script to search for the old application. <Property Id="EXE_EXISTS"> <DirectorySearch Id="CheckInstallDir" Path="[INSTALLDIR]" Depth="0" > <FileSearch Id="CheckExeFile" Name="APP.exe" /> </DirectorySearch> </Property> When the old application found, custom action "CA_RunEXE" will execute. <InstallExecuteSequence> <Custom Action="CA_RunEXE" After="InstallInitialize">EXE_EXISTS</Custom> </InstallExecuteSequence> But according to the msi log, action CA_RunEXE never execute because condition is false even the old application exist. From the log file I see INSTALLDIR already set and pointed to correct location("C:\Program Files\Company\Product\"). If I replace <DirectorySearch Id="CheckInstallDir" Path="[INSTALLDIR]" Depth="0" > to <DirectorySearch Id="CheckInstallDir" Path="C:\Program Files\Company\Product\" Depth="0" >, the action CA_RunEXE executed as expected. I cannot hardcode the Path as user may install in different locations. 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