I have an MSI installer. I have a resources directory in the same directory as my .ism project. The resources directory contains files that are to be installed on the target machine. All this works fine.
Now, I want to check to see what directories are under this resources file before I copy the data to the target machine. How do I do this? I cannot seem to figure out how the 'paths' work. HELP!
- I have a resources directory that has data that will be copied to the target machine. - The resources directory is located in the same directory as the .ism project. - Before I copy this data over to the target machine I want to check the resources directory and see what directories are there (because the build system will add directories to this resource directory and I just want to see what they are). - My problem is: what is the path/code/syntax that allows me to check the resources directory. I am using the function FindAllDirs and cannot get the right syntax for the first argument which is the directory path. - I just do not know what the syntax is for the path of the current directory or whatever directory to start in.
Hope this helps. I just really do not know the correct verbiage to use here. If I say current or working directory, I think my point will be missed.
ok, under the media folder within your project, click on the 'Path Variables' link. within here you can define a path and name a variable to point to that path. Does that help? Or do you need things to be conditionally done? If you need conditional things to be done, i'm not even sure i'd want to use installshield for that.
How is it possible that you don't know what's going to be in a directory every time?
once this path variable is setup, how do I use it? I have set this up before and could not use it in installscript code.
Also, a build script is ran than compiles code and creates these directories in the resources directory. The "powers" that be want to just change the build script and not touch the installer when changes are needed.
