I have a custom dialog to summary the selections the user has made in the UI. This dialog contains a Scrollable text control. In this control, I want to display RTF text. This works fine for all languages except for Chinese(Traditional/Simplified). This has probably something to do with my RTF Initialisation which should be modified when running on a Chinese OS but I don't know what to change. My current initialization looks like this: function void RTFInit(Rtf) begin Rtf->Indent = 0; Rtf->Contents = "{\\rtf1\\ansi\\ansicpg1252\\deff0\\deflang1033" + "{\\colortbl;\\red0\\green0\\blue0;\\red128\\green128\\blue128;}" + "{\\fonttbl{\\f0\\fswiss\\fcharset0 Arial;}}" + "\\viewkind4\\uc1\\pard\\f0\\fs18"; Rtf->InText = FALSE; end; I've already tried to modify the deflang1033 parameter into 'deflang2052' or 'deflang1028' but this doesn't work. My RTF text in the control isn't displayed correctly(see attached screenshot). Does someone knows how that I need to modify the RTF initialisation string to display the text correctly on Chinese OS? ... View more

I don't know if this is also a problem in Installshield 2008. I've this problem with InstallShield 11 projects... didn't tried it yet with InstallShield 2008 projects. I've installed version 1 of my product. This creates a shortcut on the desktop. After that, I upgrade my version 1 to version 2 of the product(MAJOR Upgrade). After the upgrade, I remove or rename the folder from where I ran the upgrade(version 2). Afterwards, when I click on the shortcut to start the application, the installer seems to start and couple of seconds afterwards, a dialog is shown telling that it cannot find the source. This dialog gives you the ability to browse to the source. When I don't remove or rename the folder from where I ran the upgrade, the installer seems to start and configures a couple of things... This happens only when you start the application via the shortcut the first time after the upgrade. :confused: Also, after a clean install, all this doesn't happen... So it seems to be upgrade related. Can someone explain my what triggers this behaviour? I've never seen this behaviour before after starting the application after an upgrade. Maybe a certain change invokes this problem but I don't know where to search. Any help is appreciated... 🙂 ... View more

I'm already using different InstallShield versions for about 10 years now but what they did with InstallShield 2008... it gives me headache! :mad: For our previous productrelease, we used InstallShield 11 Premier. No real problems with this one. It was rather easy to debug, the custom actions were executed quickly, etc... Since we needed to support Windows VISTA in our next product release, we decided to update to InstallShield 2008. I must admit, the migration from InstallShield 11 to InstallShield 2008 was no problem(all issues found where documented and could be solved rather easily). After that the problems started. First of all, try to debug remotely. We have a project with 40+ Custom Actions(less Custom Actions is not a solution because we have 10 custom dialogs with 7 buttons on it. Every click on such a button needs to trigger 1(or 2) custom actions. All actions that needs to happen when clicking on a button on such a dialog is calculated at run time). For every custom action, you need to point to the location of the script files. Can they not store where I keep my script files when I selected the path the first time. I'm not going to move my script files during debugging?! :rolleyes: Another thing: our installer takes 30+ minutes to install. I've changed a function(called via a custom action) at the end of the installer and I want to verify if this works. With Installshield 11 you say run to(or set a breakpoint) and you go to have a coffee. Not with InstallShield 2008, since it needs to know for every CA where the script files are. Also, since they initialize and deinitialize each custom action seperately, it slows down our installer with 50%!!! It takes 2seconds for a custom action to init and deinit. You understand my frustration?! I always think that they improve when making a new release but now it is totally not the case. This will increase my development/testing time with 25%! My boss doesn't understand it. :rolleyes: ... View more

During installation time of my product, I create an empty folderstructure. The application I install, puts some files in there while it is running. During complete uninstall, this folderstructure needs to be cleaned up/removed completely. Since the uninstaller only uninstalls the files/folders it has copied during installation time, I've created a deferred InstallScript custom action to take care of this. I've read that every deferred custom action should have its rollback counterpart. Any idea what this rollback custom action needs to do and where it needs to be sequenced? Should it be rollback execution or rollback execution in system context? ... View more

The installer I've created installs a Windows NT Service. This WindowsNT Service creates a logfile within a folderstructure that I also create during installation. This logfile is kept in use as long as the service is running. I've created a custom action to remove this folderstructure during REMOVE="ALL" mode because extra files and folders are added there during program execution. My question: the WindowsNT Service is removed automatically during uninstall but when? With other words, where do I need to schedule my cleanup Custom Action within the execute sequence and which type of execution do I need to use(immediate, commit, deferred?). I've tried to schedule the cleanup Custom Action after removefolders within the execute sequence and use immediate execution but at that moment, the service still seems to exist, so keeping some logfiles in use.... ... View more

I've a dialog where I created a RadioButtonGroup. The property SUM_ROLE is linked to it. This property is automatically added within the property list. In this RadioButtonGroup I've created 2 radiobuttons. The first one with Value '0' and the second one with Value '1'. For setting the default selected radiobutton, I want to rely on a registry entry. I search on the registry name value "Main" in the registry key HKLM\Software\ \Setup. This name value "Main" can have a DWORD value of 0 or 1. I've defined a systemsearch that stores the value of this Name entry within the property SUM_ROLE. I thaught that this should be ok, however... no radiobutton is selected by default when I do this. Removing this system search and changing the value of the SUM_ROLE prop to 0 or 1 selects the correct radiobutton. Any idea what is going wrong here? Is the DWORD value wrongly interpreted? Do I need to remove the SUM_ROLE prop out of the property list before adding the system search....? Regards, Christoph ... View more