I'm a first time user of Advanced Installer 3.9 and have two "newbie" questions. I've gone through the basic and advanced tutorials and haven't found answers to the following. If the answer can found in the documentation let me know where, otherwise I'd appreciate any help with the following scenario.
We are trying to build a very simple MSI package that will update FileMaker. The files are located in the following directory c:\fm82update and a subdirectory c:\fm82update\files. The first directory (c:\fm82update) contains the actual setup.exe executable. The next directory (c:\fm82update\files) contains several INI files, MSI files, MST files, and several other executables, including another setup file (also called setup.exe). To install the update you click on setup.exe located in the c:\fm82update directory. The application will start running. You are presented with three different prompts asking you to supply information about the install (such as installation location, etc.).
When I create the MSI package with Advanced Installer, I supply the location of the two installation directories as described above. The MSI file appears to be created with no problem. When I execute the MSI package it appears to run, but I do not see any prompts during the install. The running of the MSI package does not work, FileMaker is not updated.
What am I doing wrong? It seems to me that I should be able to specify which executable is to be run first when an MSI package is started. Second, how to you supply answers to the prompts when the startup executable is run. Other install programs allow you to put answers to program initiated questions in an “answer” or MST file.
Thanks in advance for any help with this problem. …Gary White