Hi, I am new to installsheild and am really enjoying working with it. I am migrating an installscript installtion to basic msi. I have to customize the shorcuts. I have to read the name of the shortcut from an INI file and create it according in my Basic MSI. These are the steps i followed
1. I have a name like "Remote" in the INI File for the shortcut. I read the file and set a user property say SHORTCUT1 in a VB Script , 2. Then I created an identifier in the String table say ID_STRING3 with value [SHORTCUT1] 3. I created a shortcut with display name as {ID_STRING3} But when I ran the application a shortcut is created like [SHORTCUT1] instead of "Remote.
So there is no way that i can create customized shortcut using windows installer. I have to write a seperate exe to create shortcut and call it in an Custom Action after create shortcut sequence Am I right? Or Is there any other way i can resolve this?
I've got a similar project, and I'm using a perl script to compile other projects before it starts the InstallShield build, so I'm just letting the script edit the .ism file (I have it saved as .xml) doing a search & replace before kicking off the InstallShield build.
If you find a way to do it within InstallShield, I'd love to hear about it because I'd rather not do it with the script.
Please search these forums for "shortcut formatted" for further discussion of the issue; one example is [thread=171394]this thread[/thread].
(If instead you want to modify a shortcut's properties at build time, and not run time, there's the Automation interface, about which see the InstallShield help library.)
