Yesterday I installed MakeMSI, tried TryMe.MM, walked through documentation... it seems the software I need to change my .msi files, but I get a SYNTAX ERROR...
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Dennis Bareis
dbareis
Nov 7, 2003 10:55 pm
Hi, ... Generally my answer would be "your fault but I will look at improving parameter validation", however in this case it is my issue. Thanks for reporting...
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Dennis Bareis
dbareis
Nov 18, 2003 9:17 am
Hi, ... Are you happy with what I have done in this area, not prefect but probably good enough? I do not wish to slow down processing any. Bye, Dennis ... ...
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Julian Onions
julianonions
Nov 21, 2003 12:53 am
Firstly - have to say this is a great package. I struggled with Visual Installer, and couldn't get it to think outside the box, or even inside the box on...
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Dennis Bareis
dbareis
Nov 21, 2003 1:34 am
Hi, ... Thanks for the comments. ... Not sure, I have seen this asked on MSI forums though, check MS ones for starters. I'd be interested in the answer. ... ...
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Julian Onions
julianonions
Nov 21, 2003 9:47 am
... Visual Installer 1.1 allows this to happen, apparently by adding some sort of additional dialog in. I'm still trying to get to grips with the internals of...
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Dennis Bareis
dbareis
Nov 21, 2003 11:24 pm
Hi, ... I have examples in UISAMPLE.MMH of dialog deletion (the opposite in a lot of ways). Its possible it is a modeless dialog build to take up the whole ...
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Dennis Bareis
dbareis
Nov 22, 2003 9:32 pm
Hi, ... It would be a good idea except that it would be very hard (impossible?) to get right, an example of this would be where you might indicate that you...
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Chris
stlrockclimber
Nov 25, 2003 9:05 pm
I am creating an MSI to be pushed down via Active Directory to "clean up" after Win2k Pro Service Pack 4 breaks our custom desktop settings. It has two very...
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Dennis Bareis
dbareis
Nov 25, 2003 9:44 pm
Hi, ... I just tried the above, then using ORCA looked at the CustomAction table, the type is "0x000004C6", which means the RC/SYNC options are correctly being...
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lode_leroy
Nov 28, 2003 9:33 pm
How do I specify the permissions of a to-be-created directory? I want to turn on the "system" flag, to enable "Desktop.ini" customization in WinXP. -- lode...
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Dennis Bareis
dbareis
Nov 28, 2003 9:53 pm
Hi, ... It is not permissions you are trying to change but file/directory attributes. File attributes are easy as the file commands support them, however the...
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Julian Onions
julianonions
Dec 1, 2003 10:49 am
Can someone point out my clearly obvious mistakes with the following. What I wanted was the EXE installed in the program files directory - although...
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lode_leroy
Dec 1, 2003 1:49 pm
Hi, I would like to know if it's possible to skip the custom/typical/complete dialog. I'm only going to do "complete"; install, so it makes no sense to have the...
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Dennis Bareis
dbareis
Dec 2, 2003 1:41 am
Hi, ... following. ... option. ... I could not reproduce this although I also could not get a shortcut generated. ... I assume you modified "dept.MMH";, my...
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Dennis Bareis
dbareis
Dec 2, 2003 1:45 am
... Certainly its possible, you have to remember though that the "custom" option allows for moving the feature directories. If not required by default there...
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lode_leroy
Dec 2, 2003 11:21 am
I see a similar problem: I have the impression that runcmd is called before the file is copied ... mkdir C:\Program Files\MyProgs copy C:\src\prog.exe cd...
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Julian Onions
julianonions
Dec 2, 2003 2:03 pm
... No - dept.MMH unmodified - I actually have my own like you suggested, but I replaced it with dept.MMH just to make sure I hadn't make an error in there. ...
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Julian Onions
julianonions
Dec 2, 2003 2:24 pm
A suggestion - might help with the bigger projects. Could some of the closing constructs take an (optional?) keyword, which would be checked that it matched...
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Dennis Bareis
dbareis
Dec 3, 2003 1:30 am
Hi, ... copied Unless you sequence it otherwise (SEQ parameter) it will (by default) occur before file installation. ... I'd suggest a simple VbsCA for this......
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Dennis Bareis
dbareis
Dec 3, 2003 1:40 am
Hi, ... DirectoryTree ... the ... If you look at the custom dialog during install you will see that the "browse" button is tied to the feature, this is because...
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Dennis Bareis
dbareis
Dec 3, 2003 1:43 am
Hi, ... which ... one. I'm ... others ... As an ... not! ... Sounds like a good idea, I'll look into it. Thanks, Dennis...
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Dennis Bareis
dbareis
Dec 4, 2003 8:24 am
Hi, ... OK first problem (I've updated the doco sample to hopefuly make this clearer), you have told the merge module "use" the feature "MergeModule" but have...
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Dennis Bareis
dbareis
Dec 4, 2003 8:32 am
Hi, ... Note sure although a quick check of msi.chm shows that feature attributes may prevent this. Other than that component attributes may do something... If...
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Dennis Bareis
dbareis
Dec 4, 2003 8:31 pm
Hi, ... I have updated the Merge module doco for this error, I though this info was in your version of MAKEMSI but it may not have been... See the doco, the...
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Dennis Bareis
dbareis
Dec 10, 2003 7:49 am
Hi, ... As you probably realised I added your table definition to MAKEMSI, unfortunately The "Feature_" columns size should be 32 and not 38 (at least to be...
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divkur
Dec 13, 2003 12:42 am
makemsi is a great peace of work dennis! you say runcmd is not intended for running an installed exe after installation. two questions: a) what is the...
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Dennis Bareis
dbareis
Dec 13, 2003 12:47 am
Hi, ... Thanks, tell your friends :-) ... The reason is that it is intended for commands being passed data in a file and so is a specialised use. It started...
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Julian Onions
julianonions
Jan 6, 2004 9:50 pm
I'm getting ICE validation errors like ICE18 ERROR KeyPath for Component: 'CDeskTop' is Directory: 'DesktopFolder'. The Directory/Component pair...
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Dennis Bareis
dbareis
Jan 7, 2004 7:02 am
Hi, ... You could just use Table/Row macros on the CreateFolder table but you can also use LM or CU parameters on the component command to create a unique...
