if you have different install directories for all then may be u can check for the files existed before uninstalling.
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Lisa Gracias <lisathelugubri...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks for that idea. It's much simpler than my approach. > There's an additional condition: The warning should be displayed only if > the > product being removed is the one that first installed the merge module, > because only then will it have the shared components in its folders. How do > I find out which product installed it first? > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:28 PM, akash bhatia <911ak...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Lisa, > > > > Best way is that u can write a custom action at uninstall which checks > > whether other two products r installed or not... set a property for tht > > > > if it found other products then it means tht shared files wont get > deleted > > from target machine. and u can populate messagebox accordingly (as per > the > > property value) at the end of the installation > > > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Lisa Gracias < > lisathelugubri...@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > I have 3 msi's which contain the same merge module. Apart from > > containing > > > components common to all 3 products, the merge module also writes an > > entry > > > to the HKLM registry hive. > > > > > > The first product to be installed, say Product A, will put the shared > > > components in its own folders, and the other two products will use the > > same > > > location for the shared components (even if their other components get > > > installed elsewhere). > > > > > > Now if the user uninstalls the Product A I want to display a warning > > that > > > certain shared components will not be removed, so that the user doesn't > > go > > > and remove those files on their own and break the functionality of the > > > other > > > two products. What's the best way to do this? > > > > > > I tried using a custom action sequenced after InstallFinalize to check > if > > > the registry entry created by the merge module persists after uninstall > > > (since that would mean at least one other product that uses it exists > on > > > the > > > system), but I don't know how to communicate the results of the check > > back > > > to Wix since I can't set a session property at that stage. > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > > > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > > > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > > > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > > > WiX-users mailing list > > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > Akash > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > > _______________________________________________ > > WiX-users mailing list > > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > -- Cheers, Akash ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
