LOGDIRECTORY is a Property not a variable & since it's all upper case
it's a Public one
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370912.aspx). Essentially
Properties are Windows Installers variables but you can use variables in
WiX so confusing the two now might cause you problems later on.
I think your directory tree isn't setup correctly for what you're trying
to do. If the directory defined by LOGDIRECTORY is the 2nd top most
directory in the tree with everything below it you're probably doing it
wrong. You may want to do something similar to the following instead:
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder">
<Directory Id="INSTALLLOCATION" Name="My Folder">
... [your directories & components can go here]
</Directory>
</Directory>
<Directory Id="CommonAppDataFolder">
<Directory Id="LOGDIRECTORY" >
... [whatever you want under LOGDIRECTORY goes here]
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
That is assuming you want LOGDIRECTORY to go somewhere under
CommonAppData, if not modify it with the System Folder property you wish
it to go under as appropriate (see the Property Reference on MSDN for
other System Folder properties).
This is covered in the tutorial at
http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson1.php#1.2
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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Hammond [mailto:andrew.george.hamm...@gmail.com]
Sent: 24 March 2010 04:19
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] de-globalizing a variable referenced by a
Directory?
I inherited an installer with some code that looks like the following:
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="LOGDIRECTORY" >
The LOGDIRECTORY is a variable, and the directory name is derived from
it.
Unfortunately, this means that LOGDIRECTORY must always be defined, even
when I'm trying to install a component that has nothing to do with the
LOGDIRECTORY. Is there some way around this or should I simply make this
a global variable and deal with the fact that it's ugly?
Andrew
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