[wpkg-users] GetMSIProperties

[Marco]

Probably I made already a step forward ...
The questions in my mind are:
Why add the UUID manually to the package.xml?
Why not using a script that does this directly while executing the
"remove" part of the package.xml?

We are discussing to get the UUID in advance. But while the "remove" is
running, the UUID is already known to the system. It should be possible
to query it. Actually WPKG already searches for the "install" in the
"check" part. Unfortunately it only checks the "version" and answers
"true" or "false". Ideally it would fetch the "uninstall string" or the
UUID and saves it in a way, that it could be used in the "remove" part.

Maybe it would need a lot of changes in wpkg.js.

But we could also write a script, that directly fetches the "uninstall"
string from the registry and uses this to uninstall.

Something like this:
<remove cmd='uninstallscript "Adobe.*"' />

Which would remove only one (maybe the first) or all programs starting
with "Adobe".

Greetings ...
 Marco


On 15.10.2014 15:08, Paul McGrath wrote:
> Hi Marco,
>   I've had feedback that the clipboard function isn't working 'as it was' so I am just (trying) to fix that ;-)
> I am not a natural coder.
> 
> Is your suggestion that the program gets the UUID and substitutes it into the MSIEXEC /x
> 
> Paul
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wpkg-users [mailto:wpkg-users-bounces at lists.wpkg.org] On Behalf Of Marco
> Sent: 15 October 2014 13:47
> To: wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org
> Subject: Re: [wpkg-users] GetMSIProperties
> 
> I use "InstEdit" (http://www.instedit.com/).
> But is it not as comfortable as yours.
> 
> Could you change the script in a way, that it could be used directly in the remove command in the package.xml ?
> 
> Greetings ...
>  Marco
> 
> 
> On 15.10.2014 12:48, Paul McGrath wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>   If anyone is interested I can circulate the VBScript or a compiled 
>> EXE of a tool I developed for myself.  I just found lots of code 
>> online and cobbled it together.
>>
>> You select the MSI you are working on and it displays a few useful 
>> properties and copies the UUID to the clipboard for you to paste into 
>> your package XML.  The useful bit I thought was putting the UUID in 
>> the clipboard so you don't have to search for it in the registry.
>>
>> Here is a screen shot of the output
>>
>>  
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>> Regards
>>
>> Paul
>>
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