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Aug 30, 2007

Hi all,I have a prereq that I'm downloading from a third party's site that spawns a secondary process during its installation. The first process unpacks some files and the second process starts the actual installation. But, when this happens, my in...

May 30, 2006

Howdy,I've just started working with Installshield and have a few questions about variables. Essentially my installer has to check the registry for a couple of entries and then, depending on whether or not they're there, do something. Unfortunately...

Apr 22, 2008

I had the exact same problem with an InstallScript MSI project and properties being used later in the installation. I opened a support ticket with Macrovision, and over the course of a very frustrating month they were able to replicate the problem, ...

Mar 02, 2008

If you disable logging, InstallShield doesn't keep track of what you're doing so it won't undo it during an uninstallation.Do...Disable(LOGGING);RegDBSetKeyValueEx(....);Enable(LOGGING);I used this to modify a system's PATH statement. Like you, ever...

Feb 19, 2008

I haven't tried something like this in a pure Installscript project, so I really don't know what differences (if any) you're going to face. I'd like to think that since the script above is all InstallScript code, you should be able to use it without...

Nov 19, 2007

Hi Lenny,I've done this for a couple of my installers. This may not be the most graceful way of doing it (I'm still fairly new to IS), but it seems to work. This is also assuming you're creating an InstallScript MSI installer. First, create a new...

May 31, 2006

Nevermind... I figured it out, and it bowls down to a stupid mistake.Our build process is involked via an Ant script which starts with a template file and replaces a number of tokens and copies the new uip file into a build directory. All of the cod...

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