^bump^ Has this been fixed yet? We wont be upgrading to 2011 anytime soon if even small things like this arent being fixed. :confused: ... View more

vermind wrote: I am facing a strange problem. I am supposed to bundle "sample.air" with my installer. To facilitate this, I am also bundling Adobe AIR runtime files that I have picked up from Adobe website. (Note: I have picked up the redistributable version). During the post-installation stage, I have added a "execute a command" which is as follows: "$USER_INSTALL_DIR$$/$AIR_Win_installer_files$/$Adobe AIR Installer.exe" -silent "$USER_INSTALL_DIR$$/$Sample.air" This works and my Sample.air is installed and a new folder is created "C:\Program Files\Sample". Now, I wish to provide a different location for Sample.air to install and I have modified the command as follows: "$USER_INSTALL_DIR$$/$AIR_Win_installer_files$/$Adobe AIR Installer.exe" -silent -location "$USER_INSTALL_DIR$$/$Sample" "$USER_INSTALL_DIR$$/$Sample.air" This command fails. And I find that the log file was not generated as well. I don't think it is because of the Adobe AIR Installer.exe file because it worked well when I hadn't specified -location option. Can anyone shed some light on this? Any help in this will be greatly appreciated. I have the same sort of setup, using Adobe AIR. Instead of Execute Command, [for the example] be sure to copy the Adobe Installer exe somewhere on the target machine. Also, the Sample.air file copied to $USER_INSTALL_DIR. Then use EXECUTE TARGET FILE Action, choose the adobe installer exe as your target and put the following in the Command Line text field - $EXECUTE_FILE_TARGET$ -silent -location $USER_INSTALL_DIR$$/$Sample $USER_INSTALL_DIR$$/$Sample.air ... View more

pbcole wrote: Hi, And then we use the runnable like this: // Fork a new thread to update progress bar ProgressUpdater progressBar = new ProgressUpdater(proxy, estimatedUninstallTime); new Thread(progressBar).start(); try { progressBar.updateStatusText("Running part A..."); // ... run part A progressBar.updateStatusText("Running part B..."); // ... run part B } finally { progressBar.setActionCompleted(); } Is the part above, in the public void uninstall(UninstallerProxy up) throws InstallException method of your CustomCode class? ... View more

william01 wrote: Okay, going on what I can glean from the user guide and forums, I have tried the following, which does not work: I created an installer that puts the sub-installers on the user's computer (just in the install folder for this test). I checked Always Generate Response File. I use the Execute Target File action to run the installers. After I run the installer I have created, I grab the response file, and put that into the installer, and deposit into the user's install folder. I change execute Execute Target File action to include the following in the command line edit box: $EXECUTE_FILE_TARGET$ -f $IA_PROJECT_DIR$\installer.properties Sorry if any or all of the above is laughably wrong, but I appear to be lacking in one or more pieces of fundamental InstallAnywhere knowledge that would allow me to get past this roadblock. This seems liek you have generated the response file for the parent installer rather than the sub installer. You should have a prop file made for the sub-installer and name it .properties and then add this to your package. Then go ahead and call in the parent installer an Execute target Action. That might help. ... View more

Under the properties of the Custom Code action there are two checkboxes - Show "Please Wait" panel Show indeterminate dialog You can uncheck both of these and that should prevent any message from showing during custom code excution. Or you can personalise the message shown. ... View more

Thanks! That resolved my issue. ... View more

In your installer.properties add a line at the top "INSTALLER_UI=silent" Then run C:\INSTALL\setup.exe -f installer.properties Thats should work. ... View more

There is an access denied comment in your log. I have had the same issue on Win7...the installer says its complete but I cannot find my appl anywhere. This is specific to Win7 permissions. You have to Run the installer as an Administrator. The easiest way is to right click on the installer package on Win7 and click Run As Administrator. Win7 is very picky about writing to Program Files dir. You need need full Administrator privileges. I have had to make changes to permissions of folders using scripts in my installer to fix some issues for Win 7 You can set logging in your application launcher properties. So in the Install sstep, goto your launcher and click the edit properties button. Add the property lax.debug and set it to true. Also you can add lax.stderr.redirect= lax.stdout.redirect= for more info. ... View more

Unclear as to what exactly you are to trying to do. Are you building an application installer? Or Are you trying to Install IA itself. Which log file is that you have shown? Looks like you may be missing CustomAction.setUniqueName(String) somewhere in your code posibly? ... View more

i ahev the same problem. Platforms supported are Windows and Linux for client. Server runs on Solaris. ... View more

I have the same requirement using IA2010 SP1...Where can I find documentation about using the ProgressUpdater class? Thanks ... View more

To close on this - During maintenance mode [using Add Features option], if I used the action "Output debug info to file" and set the destination to be the IA file "installvariables.properties", it would include some paths that contained "/uninstaller.jar". My reason for doing this was to update the value of some vars that needed to be displayed everytime I ran it in Add Features mode. So the next time the uninstaller was run, it read this file with the wrong encoding and misinterpreted the "/u" as part of something in UTF. In simple terms, its like sometimes when your double quotes turn up as some random chars like &:, So the way IA writes to installvariables.properties and the way it reads it back during execution is different. 😞 ... View more

How can you put variables in the version field in the advanced designer? IA doesnt allow letters in there. I need to put SP1 as part of my version number and I build my installer using Ant. ... View more

Is the original jre folder being removed properly on silent uninstall?? cgouri wrote: Hi, When I do a patch install on an existing installation VM is not getting installed. Here are the details : When we install our product for the first time JRE folder is installed along with all other folders and files. Now, when we do a patch install we do the following things : 1. Do a silent uninstall from command line using the command uninstall.exe -i silent 2. Install the product again. Here the JRE folder is not getting installed. Please let me know if you require any other information. - Gouri ... View more

Bottomline, the reason for my grief is IA doesn't seem to automatically update the values of variables that have been edited in Maintenance mode. Is this a known bug? ... View more