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Phil

Hi,
I'd just like to say a big public thank you to Cosmin for helping us through our installer issues. Some of the problems were in the way we'd set up some custom actions (and interpretation of how we were meant to do it), but also Cosmin's help in getting the vb script working correctly was great ...

Phil

Have just emailed it, thanks

Phil

Hi Cosmin, thanks for the details. I've pasted your code into a file called GetCurrJavaVer.vbs. Unfortunately when I run the installer I still get the script error when the script completes.

I ran the installer with logging, and this is the last few lines of the log (and there is no mention of any ...

Phil

Hi, sorry only just got back to this.

Ok, I could not see how your custom action could do the right thing so I added:
strKeyPath2 = "SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Runtime Environment\" & strValue & "\"
strValueName2 = "JavaHome"
oReg.GetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath2,strValueName2,strValue2 ...

Phil

Thanks for the vbs... but it doesn't work (error, "Object required: 'Session'" on line 12). I don't know anything about vbs and how to fix it - can you point me in the direction of a good vbs tutorial or resource? Otherwise this isn't really a solution :(

Long-term it would be very useful if AI ...

Phil

.....
So, in order to do this you need a custom action. This custom action
does a registry enumeration search and finds the main JRE. The key name
gives the version number and it's value is the path. The two are
returned into two properties.

You then enter the name of the version property in the ...

Phil

Hi, I have Java 1.4.2 (minimum) as a prerequisite in my installer. So (if java is not installed or is below 1.4.2) the file j2re-1_4_2_12-windows-i586-p.exe (which sits alongside our installer) is installed.
We send out updates to our installer to various remote staff, who don't always have the ...

Phil

Hi, I was wondering if the text in the 'Setup Type' dialog can be changed.

Eg change the 'Typical' or 'Complete' labels to something else.

We have a client/server installer... the server (Complete option) is only used once, and the client multiple times (Typical install).
However our helpdesk is ...

Phil

That worked great, thanks Mike

Phil

The script side of it is not a problem. The problem now is I don't understand how to set a property in the installer with the result of the script.

What I've done: created a property called 'targetDrive' which I need to pass to a custom action (it could be C:, D:, E:, etc). Then in Custom Actions ...

Phil

Mike wrote:The TARGETDIR includes the information about the target drive. You could use a custom action to extract from that string the string that contains the drive letter.

Bugger.

How the heck do I do that? Do I need to do a sub-string some how??

Phil

Hi, simple question: I pass the TARGETDIR to a custom action ok. However I also need to pass the target drive. How can I get it?

I need to do this because the custom action I run is a batch file.... so I need to do something like:

E:
CD E:\MyApps\SomeDir

Thanks,
Phil

Phil

Mike wrote:This feature will probably be included in the next release of Advanced Installer.

Sounds great, I look forward to it

Thanks

Phil

Advanced Installer names the feature as it follows:
- The first feature is named "MainFeature".
- The second feature is named "Feature".
- The third feature is named "Feature_1"
- The fourth feature is named "Feature_2" and so on.

So, for the second property the condition will be: (&Feature_1=3 ...

Phil

If it was a single file (the EXE) you could make it an "Attached custom action".
Ok, that is the answer then I'll make any of these applications exe's first with our normal exe wrapper (which I can integrate into ant). This'll simplify things; I haven't had much success with custom actions ...

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