Installing exes and MSI's

[Iain]

Hi, hopefully someone can help me.

I have a project where I need to install some 3rd party applications, these are 2 MSI files and 1 exe. I currently have them as pre-requisites but what I really want is to be able to have an option in one of my dialog boxes which allows the user to select the item, then the 3rd party installer runs, this needs to be done before my project runs and completes.

It can be a radio button, check box or whatever but I must have the option of selecting either 0,1, 2 or 3 of these apps.

Hopefully this makes sense

[Cosmin]

Hi,

You can make the prerequisites feature-based and add the "PrerequisitesDlg" dialog in the "Dialogs" page. This way the installation will show a prerequisite selection dialog.

Regards,
Cosmin

[Iain]

Thanks for your reply, I found this on the site but when I look to edit my pre-requisites, the options tab doesn't include the feature-based part, I've attached a screenshot.

[GabrielBarbu]

Hello,

The feature-based prerequisites functionality has been introduced in version 7.3 of Advanced Installer.
You can try creating some dummy features and depending on whether or not they are selected for install, run some UI Custom actions that launch your installers.

Best regards,
Gabriel

[Iain]

Hi, thanks for your advice.

I've used custom actions for other things but I'm unsure how to run a custom action depending on whether a feature is selected for install. If you could offer some advice or direct me to an article which explains this that would be great.

Thanks

[Bogdan]

Hi,

All you have to do is to condition the feature using the feature's identifier, like this:

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((&MainFeature = 3) AND NOT (!MainFeature = 3))

This is for a feature which has the identifier set to "MainFeature" and it is tested if the feature will be installed and that it is not re-installed (it wasn't already on the machine).

Regards,
Bogdan

[Iain]

brilliant, I've finally got it working, thanks, the trouble is it only runs exe's and not MSI's, is there a setting somewhere that will allow this.

Thanks again

[Bogdan]

Hi,

A MSI requires a specific command line to be installed, it is not launched as a simple EXE file, here are more details.

You can try using the custom action "Launch File or Open URL" to launch the MSI with the desired command line options.

Regards,
Bogdan

[Iain]

Thanks works a treat