RE: [WiX-users] setting TARGETDIR, and executing the installed program on completion

[Nat L. <nat...@gm...>]

You can try this 

<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
	<Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder" Name="PFiles"> 
		<Directory Id="INSTALLDIR" Name="MyProg">
			<Component/>...
		<Directory
	</Directory>
</Directory>

And set INSTALLDIR instead of TARGETDIR. That's the way it has been put in a
couple samples I have seen.

Nat

-----Original Message-----
From: wix...@li...
[mailto:wix...@li...] On Behalf Of Erik S. LaBianca
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 7:26 PM
To: wix...@li...
Subject: [WiX-users] setting TARGETDIR, and executing the installed program
on completion

Hello All,

Sorry, but two more RTFM type question's.

First... How am I supposed to set the TARGETDIR property? I see lots of
examples using <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">, however, in
order to get my msm files to go where I expected them, I needed to use
<Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder" Name="PFiles"> <Directory Id="TARGETDIR"
Name="SourceDir"><Component/>...
</Directory></Directory>.

Initially, I was using  <Property Id="TARGETDIR">C:\Program Files\My
Program</Property> but thats not very cool since some systems aren't
installed on C. I saw an example that did this:

<CustomAction Id="SET_TARGETDIR" Property="TARGETDIR"

Value="[ProgramFilesFolder]\[Company]\[ProductName]"
	Execute="firstSequence" />
<InstallExecuteSequence>
	<Custom Action="SET_TARGETDIR"

Before="CostInitialize">TargetDir=''</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>

But then my installer installs to c:\, even if I remove the conditional from
the the Custom tag. I also tried <Property
Id="TARGETDIR">[ProgramFilesFolder]\[ProductName]</Property>, which
complains that [ProgramFilesFolder] is unknown. What am I missing here? 
I'm assuming the [] syntax implies property substitution, and that the
ProgramFilesFolder property is supposed to be set automatically by msiexec.

Second... I'm trying to launch the installed product when the installer
completes. I have a dialog in place that sets a LAUNCHPRODUCT property
correctly, but I'm not getting the CustomAction tag right to actually launch
it. Here's what I'm using:

<CustomAction Id='LaunchFile'
	FileKey='Circulation.exe'
	ExeCommand=''
	Return='asyncNoWait'
	/>
<InstallExecuteSequence>
	<Custom Action="LaunchProduct" After="InstallFinalize">(not
installed and LAUNCHPRODUCT=1)</Custom> </InstallExecuteSequence>
Circulation.exe is the id associated with the <file /> tag for the primary
executable.


Any help is appreciated,

Thanks

--erik


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