Hi, I have my own custom action written in C# using DTF (http://blog.deploymentengineering.com/2008/05/deployment-tools-foundation-dtf-custom.html). I have two questions: 1) Is there a way to access the localized strings in the InstallShield String Editor from within my custom action? Obtaining a property looks like: [CODE] strVar = session["INSTALLDIR"];[/CODE] I was hoping i could acess a localized string by doing something similar: [CODE]strVar = session["ID_MYSTRING"];[/CODE] But this does not work. 2) Is there a way to access the Preprocessor Defines set in the Product Configuration (in InstallShield) in my custom action? Thanks. ... View more

I am running into the following issue (on English Win 7 with English Local): When installing a product (Basic MSI Project), if I do a "Custom" install, and use Japanese characters (ex: テストパス) in the install path (or select a folder containing Japanese characters in the name), the install will succeed, as long as I don't perform any operations on INSTALLDIR. Now, if I try and modify INSTALLDIR using MsiSetProperty, the installation will return the following error: Error 1324. The path ????? contains an invalid character. Also, if I try to use MsiGetProperty and print the value of INSTALLDIR using MessageBox, it will print questions marks "?????". If I change the system locale to "Japanese", everything works. It almost seems like performing an operation in the installscript (MsiGetProperty/MsiSetProperty") might be changing the text from Unicode to ANSI? I've tried using STRING and WSTRING in MsiGetProperty/MsiSetProperty. Is there anything I can do to make this work in the English local, or will I be required to change the local to have foreign characters in INSTALLDIR? Thanks. ... View more

I have a custom dialog that I made in the dialog user interface. I don't want it to be displayed as part of the normal dialog sequence (ie: clicking the next button of a previous dialog). Instead, I want to display it using code. The name of the dialog I created in the dialog interface is "MyDialog". My code is as follows: nResult = EzDefineDialog("MyDialog","","MyDialog",NULL); nResult = WaitOnDialog("MyDialog"); This is currently not working. nResult returns 0 on the EzDefineDialog call, but nResult returns -1 during the WaitOnDialog call and nothing happens. Am I doing something wrong here? Also, I'm not sure if this matters or not, but this would be the second custom dialog being displayed on the screen at the same time (maybe this isn't possible?). Basically, the installation proceeds from dialog to dialog when the user hits the next button (or back/cancel/etc.). At some point during this sequence, I want to call "MyDialog" manually. So, the normal installation sequence will still be hanging around in the background until I have exited from "MyDialog". This is a basic msi project. Any Ideas? Thanks. ... View more

I need to check if a file (in this case an executable) of an installed program is 32 or 64 bit. Does installshield provide a method to do this? I was thinking something with GetFileInfo(), but it doesn't seem to provide any options of finding if the file is 32 or 64 bit. Any ideas? (this is for a basic msi project on a windows machine) Thanks. ... View more