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briancorcoran

The project contains dictionaries of translated strings (picture attached) that are used in installer dialogs. I have a custom action that invokes a VBScript inline script. I would like it to be able to retrieve a string from one of these dictionaries, say using Session.Property, to use the string i...

briancorcoran

I've always just assumed that Published Events are executed in order from Top to Bottom. However, I have an odd case where I have two events of the same type (Display a specific dialog) connected to the Next button of a dialog. It seems like the top event should be run first, and that is not the cas...

briancorcoran

Yes, that was very helpful.

Thank you,

Brian

briancorcoran

Hi, During Maintenance mode, I need to display certain dialogs based on whether a feature is already installed or not. I thought I could just query the state of feature ID, but that is coming up as empty. For Example, I might "Display a Specific Dialog" for the Next button based on MyFeatu...

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I have two edit boxes where I am asking a user to enter a password. If the contents of the boxes do not match, I do not want Next to go to the next dialog. I want to put up an error message. I don't think I want an inline script, because the message would be difficult to translate. How do I compare ...

briancorcoran

It looks like I just needed to reverse the two parameters and it worked. So, never mind.

Brian

briancorcoran

Hi, I have a custom dialog checkbox whose property is SERVICES_INSTALL_CHECK. By default this is set to "False". I would like to be able to run a silent installer where this value is set to True, to force the action as if the check had been selected. I tried running a silent install like: ...

briancorcoran

I put my changes that were failing back in to generate an aip file for you, and now they work. Frustrating. So, I apologize for wasting your time. I'll think about putting together a MSI package just for the install/uninstall of the .iss file.

Thank you,

Brian

briancorcoran

I marked the .iss file as Permanent, which is not an ideal solution, to make sure it stays around. It did, but the APPDIR did not work as I hoped. I had to put in the full path for the uninstall to work. My question regarding removing files remains, but also does APPDIR not resolve for uninstall com...

briancorcoran

Please ignore the part above regarding Node.js. I was incorrectly specifying the full path to the msiexec in that case, and have fixed it. For the issue with the desktop application, I seem to have an issue with a file disappearing before I need it. I'm trying to run a command line like: c:\Program ...

briancorcoran

Hi, I have two prerequisites that I install as part of a larger installation. In one case, I want to uninstall node.js (yes, I know what I'm doing and nobody else is using it). In another, I want to uninstall a desktop application. In both cases, the uninstall main module differs from the install ma...

briancorcoran

Thank you, that was helpful.

Brian

briancorcoran

Mihai, Thank you for your reply. I would like to do something like that, but there is a problem. The command line for the PostgreSQL install that I want to supply contains information obtained from a custom install dialog. For instance, I want to set the admin password for the database upon it's ins...

briancorcoran

I used the prerequisite approach for node.js and see the value. However, in the case of PostgreSQL the install can be very long. Also, I need to run a script after installation to create a schema within the default database. It would have been nice to have an indeterminate progress bar during this t...

briancorcoran

Hi, I want to install a PostgreSQL database as part of an install. Postgres has its own exe installer that I can successfully launch from a custom action. I would like an indeterminate progress bar to show up on the ProgressDlg while the Postgres installer runs. I cannot get this to work. I've put m...

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