Icon shenanigans

[Lickydog]

When installing multiple products (series of discs), we've found that the icon behaviour of the installed files has been very confusing. The icons have been applied through a .dll file and depending on the installation order of the msi files, the respective application icons do not necessarily apply correctly:

Disc 4 - Icon 4
Disc 5 - Icon 5
Disc 6 - Icon 5

Has anyone else come across this behaviour - it seems to affect anything below XP.

[Mike]

Hi

In order to reproduce and fix your problem, please give us more details
on what you are trying to do. Also, you can send us the AIP file of your
application at support at advancedinstaller dot com.

Waiting for your reply.

Regards,
Mihai

[Mike]

Hi,

Here is the solution we found:
Open the AIP file in a text editor. Find the icon row - the only one
from your project.

<COMPONENT cid="caphyon.advinst.msicomp.MsiIconsComponent">
<ROW Name="controlPanelIcon.exe" ..../>

Change the value of Name to something specific to your version like
v5controlPanelIcon.exe .Then replace all occurrences of the old value
with the new one in all the rows from the AIP - you do all these with
the text editor.

Make this type of change for every project.

All the best,
Mihai