I've defined a neat custom action that ammends a file on installation - adds lines to it etc. Similar one for uninstall. #( <$VbsCaSetup Binary="AddLine.vbs" ...
Hi, ... installation - adds ... It seems ... creates a file ... before ... The CA you are setting up is deferred and occurs after files are installed as that...
Greetings, As a newbie to the MSI arena, I'm thrilled to have found MakeMSI. It seems to have the best documentation and the most active support system - much...
Hi, ... Good to hear this. Thanks. Tell your friends :-) ... I don't think it does much more than that in MAKEMSI as supplied (I did notice in dev mode complus...
Hi, ... I have now added this example to my documentation: ;--- What should be the default "PAUSE" parameter value? --- #define DEBUG_PAUSE.D Y ;;Default...
I have quiote a big install built with makemsi, which is working pretty well. However, with the addition of a few last files and directories, it builds fine...
Hi, ... Does it look like a complete dialog? ... Sounds like its having trouble drawing the dialog. ... Off hand this does not appear related maybe try...
... Yes - I think, you get the brief small dialog saying its starting up, then the welcome dialog I think, only a split second flash before it dies though. ......
... Well it did help. The bitmap I had installed I'd copied the dimensions from the makemsi sample LeftSide.bmp - 503 x 314 pixels. The standard dialog is...
Hi, ... 370x270? Be careful when looking at sizes and remember that the dialogs are not sized by pixels. But in any case there would appear to be some Windows...
... Yes but please in separate email in future, that way others looking for the answer have a better chance of finding the info. ... or ... to ... its ... ...
Greetings, I'm having some difficulty executing some registry entries during the installation. The program (DataDoors - DLL) I've built is incorporated into...
Hi, ... If you are saying the registry importing doesn't appear to be working then can you please send me the source and output files zipped? ... Change to: ...
What other options do you get when running MSI with an exisiting installation, other than remove and replace? I've read through a bit about upgrade codes and...
Hi, I'm in a rush so I will be quick... ... Your RC 2709 means component not found which is true the above line will NOT create a component but allows you to...
Hi, ... Well Repair also shows up on the maintenance dialog... ... What upgrade codes basically do is allow you to group related products together and this has...
Hi, ... Interesting as indicated previously the above is not correct (and if it was you'd want the KEYPATH=Y parameter) however I tried similar here and with...
OK - I have a reasonably big install, it makes a CD's worth of distribution (640Mb) There are quite a lot of files in it (2135 currently), 6 registry entries,...
Hi This is Sudhakar from India. Firstly, Thanks for giving operational information about MakeMSI. The Information provided in the internet was very useful and ...
Hi, ... It does a lot and perhaps disabling the HTML generation might help, however even 315 MB is not that much, if you are low in RAM I'd recommend buying...
Hi, ... If a setup has a "silent" command line then that is the way to go (use "ExeCa" command etc), if not and you need setup capture then you will probably...
... Yes - possibly. How do you do that? The HTML generated file is about 1.2Mb which takes a while to load into a browser. I think it takes about 2-3 minutes...
... Nothings ever easy is it! Took me 15 minutes to find something that worked! This is for windows 2000 btw, YMMV. Anyway if anyone wants to automate the...
Hi, ... I suspect you might be right, if the MSI is for internal use where it is automatically deployed then you might wish to leave the HTML report so you can...
Hi, ... I have modified MM.CMD (be in next release AND IS ATTACHED - as its small) so that you can set up an environment variable if you wish to alter the...
Hi, ... I have been doing a bit (read a lot) of checking into memory usage and can say if you use "DOCO=N" the memory usage will be slightly less but that the...
... Wow - this is interesting. Many thanks for your investigations and we'll see what time brings! The delete temporary .CAB macro is now in use in my builds -...
Hello All, I'm new to this group.I'm into system admin and now i want to learn application packaging.I need your help. 1)whats the checklist to make...
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