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gavin_landon · ‎Jun 18, 2009

Michael mentioned Delay.. I didn't realized Delay was in there. In some software there is a small difference between Sleep and Delay. So I would give that a try. Delay is used just like Sleep. Delay(100);

gavin_landon · ‎Jun 18, 2009

Sounds like a timing issue.. Try putting a Sleep(100); in between them. May just need a cycle, which can possibly be done with Sleep(0);

gavin_landon · ‎Jun 17, 2009

When I say API List, I'm meaning both.. Anything that can be called within IS. However, 😮 I hadn't see this list somehow. I must of looked past this several times. This will allow me to quit asking so many questions.

gavin_landon · ‎Jun 17, 2009

And here is someone that is doing the silent install.. Looks like an old article, but should at least give you some direction. http://www.exforsys.com/tutorials/sql-server-2005/sql-server-unattended-installation.html

gavin_landon · ‎Jun 17, 2009

It would be the same as if you did it manually. You would just have to do each step programmaticly. Microsoft has a KB on uninstalling all of SQL 2005 manually. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909967

gavin_landon · ‎Jun 17, 2009

Thanks for the reply.. I've downloaded it about an hour ago and the flexibility isn't quite there for what I'm doing. Looks like a lot of work to do what I do in InstallShield already, however I understand it's for multi-platform so there is always that hurtle and flexibility is the first to go.

gavin_landon · ‎Jun 17, 2009

That is most defiantly the best way. I have a tendency to forget InstallShied most likely has API to do everything needing done. This is why I keep asking them for an API list.. 😛

gavin_landon · ‎Jun 17, 2009

Could you do this in VBS just to test and make sure you are seeing what you want to see? Inbetween the stop and start you can do a wscript.sleep(5000) to give you a 5 second wait.

gavin_landon · ‎Jun 17, 2009

Ok, I just downloaded the eval version of InstallAnywhere 2009 Standard and I'm a little confused.. I'm getting comfortable with InstallShield 2009 so I'm now lost with this product. How do I get to the code or is this pure wizard based? Based on the help file I see things like, "About Custom Code and Variables" and "Custom Code APIs", but the help doesn't tell me how to get to the code. How do you customized dialogs? I see the dialog names, but I can't seem to be edit them or create new ones with my own look. I need dialogs with checkboxes and radiobuttons and things to be disabled if the user unchecks certain checkboxes.. Searching for Custom Dialogs and there doesn't seem to be anything about it. Does this product allow for these things?

gavin_landon · ‎Jun 17, 2009

First I would try to register them on the machine manually to see if it's not a OCX issue.

gavin_landon · ‎Jun 17, 2009

This looks like you need to uninstall the previous before you can install the latest. To get the best answer though, you should go to the MSSQL forums, because this isn't an InstallShield prompt.

gavin_landon · ‎Jun 17, 2009

Are there major differences between InstallShield 2009 Pro and InstallAnywhere 2009 Standard with language, API, or UI? If I'm confortable with InstallShield 2009 will InstallAnywhere 2009 be easy to adapt or is it something I have to learn all over again?

gavin_landon · ‎Jun 17, 2009

Well, if it was based on File Existence, you could do this via IS code outside of the prereq part of IS. Since it's based on version, trying to maintain that would be a hassle. However if you don't mind the hassle and maintained a flat/xml file of file's and versioning then used that instead via code. My Installers are mainly custom so I'm finding I don't use much of the preset stuff within IS and since IS is powerful enough for me to code it myself, I do. Just a thought, plus asking you questions gives me ideas as I may run into the same issues.

gavin_landon · ‎Jun 17, 2009

So are you saying that it does actually stop and start the service, it's just you can't see it?

gavin_landon · ‎Jun 17, 2009

You could use a batch wrapper. There is the "start" command that can be used for Windows machines. Example: Create a test1.bat file. Inside that batch file put: ----------- @echo off cls start C:\test2.bat ----------- Now create a test2.bat and put this inside it ----------- @echo off cls echo.test 2 here.. pause ----------- Test1.bat will execute Test2.bat without waiting and exit allowing the installer to continue. Hope that helps.

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