Why not just create a new project and select the C++ Custom Action Project under Windows Installer XML. That will get you a project with the proper setup in place.
-----Original Message----- From: Kevin Hebert [mailto:ke...@legendary-immersion.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 10:15 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action to verify input Just attempted to add the wcautil_2010.lib as a reference, but it failed saying it wasn't a proper WiX library. I'll keep working on how to figure this out. Thanks for bearing with me. Feeling very under the weather today, so I'm not even at 85%. On 11/23/2011 9:52 AM, Hoover, Jacob wrote: > But the Wca wrappers come with WiX. Since you are using WiX for the UI, > I assume your CA build machine would have WiX installed. Worse case, you > could download the WiX source and include the lib source directly in > your project (I don't think there would be any licensing issues there). > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Hebert [mailto:ke...@legendary-immersion.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 9:39 AM > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action to verify input > > It's probably cause I'm posting via the forums directly, and not using > email. And the only way to post code without it looking silly is to do > raw text. > > The reason I'm not using Wca wrappers is that I was told I had to work > with what I've got. I can't install any other frameworks or anything to > > help me out. As for the suggestion of the messagebox not being inside > the custom action, I'll again point to my newbness. I'm not sure how to > > do that, but I'll start looking into it. Thank you. > > On 11/22/2011 11:12 AM, Hoover, Jacob wrote: >> Argh, >> Having issues getting this right because I have to keep going to >> nabble to see your posts. (Maybe you are sending rich HTML, but >> something is causing the emails I get from the list to be blank.) >> >> You are still using a message box inside of your custom action, which > I >> would strongly urge against doing. (I believe a silent install that is >> automated would hang.) >> >> I also see you aren't adding in the Wca wrappers. Is there a reason > for >> this? >> >> // Custom Action >> UINT __stdcall VerifyUserInformation( >> __in MSIHANDLE hInstall >> ) >> { >> >> LPWSTR userName = NULL; >> LPWSTR email = NULL; >> HRESULT hr = S_OK; >> UINT er = ERROR_SUCCESS; >> >> hr = WcaInitialize(hInstall, "VerifyUserInformation"); >> ExitOnFailure(hr, "Failed to Initialize"); >> >> hr = WcaSetProperty(L"UserInfoError", L""); >> ExitOnFailure(hr, "Failed to initialize UserInfoError"); >> >> if (WcaIsPropertySet(L"UNAME")) >> { >> hr = WcaGetProperty(L"UNAME", userName); >> ExitOnFailure(hr, "Failed to get UNAME."); >> WcaLog(LOGMSG_VERBOSE, "UNAME is %ls.", userName); >> } >> >> if (WcaIsPropertySet(L"EMAIL")) >> { >> hr = WcaGetProperty(L"EMAIL", email); >> ExitOnFailure(hr, "Failed to get EMAIL."); >> WcaLog(LOGMSG_VERBOSE, "EMAIL is %ls.", email); >> } >> >> if(wcslen(userName) == 0) >> { >> hr = WcaSetProperty(L"UserInfoError", L"Please enter >> your name."); >> WcaLog(LOGMSG_VERBOSE, "Please enter your name."); >> } >> else if(wcslen(email) == 0) >> { >> hr = WcaSetProperty(L"UserInfoError", L"Please enter >> your email address."); >> WcaLog(LOGMSG_VERBOSE, "Please enter your email >> address."); >> } >> >> LExit: >> ReleaseStr(userName); >> ReleaseStr(email); >> if (FAILED(hr)) >> { >> er = ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE; >> } >> return WcaFinalize(er); >> } >> >> <Publish Event="DoAction" Value="verifyUserInformation" Order="1"> >> 1</Publish> >> >> <Publish Event="SpawnDialog" Order="2" > Value="AccountVerifiedFailedDlg"> >> <![CDATA[ UserInfoError ]]> >> </Publish> >> >> <Publish Event="NewDialog" Order="3" Value="PassDlg"> >> <![CDATA[ NOT UserInfoError ]]> >> </Publish> >> >> Note, the SpawnDialog call intent was to spawn a custom error dialog > to >> display your error message. If you are trying to SpawnDialog the > exact >> same dialog that you pressed next on you won't get the expected > result. >> With this, you could still do a spawn dialog, or you could include an >> additional static text control on the same dialog and then remove: >> >> <Publish Event="SpawnDialog" Order="2" > Value="AccountVerifiedFailedDlg"> >> <![CDATA[ UserInfoError ]]> >> </Publish> >> >> Make the static text then consume the UserInfoError property. (Note, I >> vaguely remember needing setting a property to itself in a publish >> sequence to get the dialog to update.) >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Hoover, Jacob [mailto:jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 9:54 AM >> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. >> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action to verify input >> >> The property name alone only tests to see that the property is > assigned. >> <Publish Event="SpawnDialog" Order="2" >> Value="ConfigDlg">UserInfoVerified</Publish> >> <Publish Event="NewDialog" Order="3" Value="PassDlg">Not >> UserInfoVerified</Publish> >> >> >> should be >> >> <Publish Event="SpawnDialog" Order="2" >> Value="ConfigDlg">UserInfoVerified ~= "TRUE"</Publish> >> <Publish Event="NewDialog" Order="3" Value="PassDlg"> >> (UserInfoVerified ~= "FALSE")</Publish> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: AxiomaticImpact [mailto:ke...@legendary-immersion.com] >> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 2:30 PM >> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Custom Action to verify input >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> > http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Custom-Act >> ion-to-verify-input-tp7004942p7017845.html >> Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> ------ >> All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure >> contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, >> security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this >> data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d >> _______________________________________________ >> WiX-users mailing list >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> ------ >> All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure >> contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, >> security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this >> data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d >> _______________________________________________ >> WiX-users mailing list >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ >> All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure >> contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, >> security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this >> data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d >> _______________________________________________ >> WiX-users mailing list >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> >> > -- Kevin Hebert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. 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