[wix-users] Launch website in default browser

[Hagen Kant]

Thanks Nir,

but how would this launch the default browser?

Thanks,
Hagen.

> On 01.04.2021, at 06:44, Nir Bar via wix-users <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
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> Custom action LaunchBrowser doesn't launch the browser, it merely sets property BROWSER.
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> Try using https://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/customactions/qtexec.html
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> Nir Bar
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> ---- On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:58:25 +0300 Hagen Kant via wix-users <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote ----
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> Hi, this has been discussed; as well there is some (outdated Non-Windows 10?) example code, however I am not able to make this work. 
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> There seem to be a syntactical issue using the BROWSERID property as part of the Key trying to retrieve the default browser: 
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>         <Property Id="BROWSERID"> 
>             <RegistrySearch Id="DefaultBrowserID" Type="raw" Root="HKCU" Key="SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Associations\URLAssociations\https\UserChoice" Name="ProgId" /> 
>         </Property> 
>         <Property Id="BROWSER"> 
>             <RegistrySearch Id="DefaultBrowser" Type="raw" Root="HKCR" Key="[BROWSERID]\shell\open" /> 
>         </Property> 
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> I can't figure out how this is suppose to be. 
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> On the other end: 
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>         <InstallExecuteSequence> 
>             [..] 
>             <Custom Action="LaunchBrowser" After="InstallFinalize">NOT Installed</Custom> 
>         </InstallExecuteSequence> 
>         <CustomAction Id="LaunchBrowser" Property="BROWSER" ExeCommand="$(var.url)" Return="asyncNoWait" /> 
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> Any hint how to correct this is highly appreciated. 
> Thanks & cheers, 
> Hagen. 
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