Hello, I'm a freelance programmer who took a small assignment to make an installer. Having no experience in that field, I ran across MakeMSI and was pleasantly...
Hi, A few more answers... ... See PPWIZARD manual. ... and ... The custom action executes at install time... The MSI is built on your computer (build time). ...
Hi ya, I decided to havecrack at it, no external CA required: #define BB_REGISTRY_DATA_HKEY HKLM #define BB_REGISTRY_DATA_KEY Software\ABCDEF ;--- Look for a...
I am enjoying the MakeMSI tool, however I ran into a glitch. It is a great tool however as I just started using it and I have little experience with REXX and...
Hi, ... Sorry I meant to say that it was untested but I was in a hurry. The test is wrong, change it to: ;--- Abort if no hole found.. ---- #( <$AbortIf ...
Hi, ... Easiest is to move the #data outside of your macro. However in your case this is not possible as yo want to pick up the parameters. MAKEMSI works ...
Great, this last change got it working! <sigh of relief> Thanks a lot, Camille Dennis Bareis wrote: Hi, CF vd Berg wrote: Hello Dennis, thanks a lot for your...
Thank you Dennis. Great idea. I'll give this a try and I'll let you know how it worked out. I am in turn trying to generalize your Regsitry Appending...
Hi, ... Good to hear, I have made this an example in the doco, see: http://makemsi-manual.dennisbareis.com/trymeupdateregistry00_99_mm.htm Let me know if you...
Dennis, Thanks for the reply. I have been re-directed this last week. I have been using MSIVAL2 and the MAKEMSI build does validate fine. I will take your...
Dennis, Just a little follow up, MAKEMSI has been a good MSI builder for me and it has worked out great. It is one of the few MSI builders that I have found...
Hi, there is still some text displayed in line 1 like: Custom Action "CACLS1.vbs" - ExecuteCACLS() How do I remove this text also? Thanks in advance. ... files...
Hi, good to hear the work you did for me might also benefit others. Apart from customising it for my installer, I didn't need to make other changes. I'm...
... You are definately missing something. At install time a directory key becomes a property. See the "DIR" property of the "PropertyCa" command. There are...
Hi, if I use the CACLS to set file security like this: #define CACLS <$RunCmd {$?} ALIAS="CACLS" Command="CACLS.EXE" @="N"> #define /CACLS <$/RunCmd {$?}...
Hi, I could now verify that the different Users Group names on different language systems are the problem, e.g.: on english OS the Users group is named Users, ...
Hi, ... I believe that you can use the unchanging GUID. If that is not the case my only other suggestion is to google CACLS, you would not be the first to have...
Hi Dennis, that's correct that I'm not the first one with that problem. Cacls can't be used with SIDs (sell known SIDs like S-1-5-32-545 for e.g. Users). So I...
Hi, ... See the "VBSCA" command an schedule as immediate custom action which sets property with result. This can be used when setting securiry Bye, Dennis...
Hi, RunCmd doesn' have a description parameter. Using VbsCaSetup there is a description parameter but it doesn't work. Thanks. Bye ... makemsi ... goes ... ...
Hi Dennis, this works. To share my code with the community, here it is: ### ;--- Setting security on test.txt ------------------------------------ ... ;---...
Dennis, I actually found a somewhat simpler workaround for this issue. I simply included the data segment in a "#(..#)" block and introduced a "<{nl}>"...
Hi, That is a good workaround and both approaches are good examples and I've been thinking about where would be the best place for examples like this. Maybe a...
Hi, ... Thanks for the info but I'm struggling to reproduce your success. "<{nl}>" wold appear to be a mistake perhaps produced by Yahoo groups, could you...
Hi Dennis, I have wrapped standalone internet explorer 7.0 from wrapinstall command, but i am unable to install it i get the following error message : Custom...
Hi, ... Its worth reading: http://makemsi-manual.dennisbareis.com/bugs_support.htm You did not supply the OS, makemsi code or error code, the latter I think is...
