I want to append ProductName in the end of _BrowseProperty. Like a:
<Publish Event="SetTargetPath" Value="[_BrowseProperty][ProductName]">1</Publish>
But this is the wrong approach, and so it is impossible. I found this advice, bit it is dirty, really. I want to substitute ProductName as this happened in notepad++ installer (I change "C:\", press "ok" and INSTALLLOCATION:=C:\[ProducName]).
Also I wanted to change BrowseDlg and directory tree (cause the default DirectoryList/DirectoryCombo is so poor-looking)), but there is no other not-hurt variant besides the standard in WIX [ref].
May be anything changed recently?
I'm not sure of the order in which want to do this, but if you want to show the user the default directory containing the product name then you append [ProductName] to the install folder. Typically there is a type 51 custom action to set the default location - you may already have one that sets the default install folder to something like:
[ProgramFilesFolder][Manufacturer][ProductName]
and the user can change that if they want. The default install folder might be INSTALLDIR. Although I wouldn't recommend changing what the user specifies, you'd do that with a type 51 custom action after the user has chosen the folder, so you'd basically change INSTALLDIR to be INSTALLDIR[ProductName] after INSTALLDIR has been set by the browse dialog.
So this all depends on what you have already done to set a default install location, if anything, also whether you want to change what the user specifies, and how you may want to deal with a silent install when there is no browse dialog (which is why there is typically a type 51 CA to set a default).
