Hey guys, This is actually a feature - not a bug! The window turns into glass for the duration of the build, but goes back to normal post build.. I was afraid you would say that. InstallAware is a really nice product and I don't think there is a better installer available but some of the features y...

When you run miabuild from the commandline the WHOLE background of the window will turn transparent - with the result that you are unable to read the output.

I guess this is a feature though I find it extremely irritating. Can you tell me how I can turn this off? I found no commandline switches.

kzoltan wrote:I have done downloaded the plugin and done just this. But instead of writing the value of $TARGETDIR$ into the file that I am editing, it just writes the string "$TARGETDIR$" into the file. What am I doing wrong?

Have you put @TARGETDIR@ into the file to edit (not $TARGETDIR$)?

It's written in VC++ 6.0 (statically linked), no dependencies beside kernel and ntdll. You don't need mIDEEdit.dll for your installation - that is only used for the IDE. mEXEEdit.dll is for the runtime distribution. If the setup only runs with mIDEEdit.dll then it could be a bug in InstallAware. bye...

Sorry for the late reply (been on vacation)...

What version of InstallAware are you using? Do you have a small setup to repro the error?

The mIDEEdit.dll is used with the InstallAware IDE. Your setup should only contain mEXEEdit.dll. What exact error do you get? Do you have a screenshot? Also make sure that you are using EditFile after the Apply Install command. bye, chris PS: To check that your setup does include the dll: - run your...

Thanks Candice for saving me the work of posting it myself!

I should note that this is not exactly 'clean' code - but I hope it helps!

bug: the Run Program command with a very long argument will show up in the IDE as an empty line.

Sorry for the late reply.

I haven't been able to produce this error again but I'll let you know when I have more information.

Thanks.

Yes, we are doing silent installs (with a few parameters if that matters). However in the script we set SILENT=FALSE and show only progress dialogs without a cancel button.

We are using the new Terminate with Exit Code command to signal if a setup has failed. This works very well.

However it appears that if the setup cannot unpack itself (out of space, etc.) it will return 0 (SUCCESS).

Could you please verify this and change it to return an error code? Thanks!

Minor bug:

- silent installs leave an empty MIA* directory behind (in temp).

Does this also fix the issue with miabuild.exe not reporting a compile error?

thanks.

- Please combine the startup "InstallAWARE" and "InstallAWARE Wizard" progress dialogs into a single dialog.

- Make the IF command support OR and AND!

This is actually an old request and the reason why I wrote the Eval plugin. It would help a lot!