InstallAware for Delphi 2007 Questions

[newbielabs]

Thank you for a great product. I started using InstallAware bundled in Delphi2007 for Win32. I am in the process of migrating from InstallShield to InstallAware and just have a couple of questions. I'm not sure if these features are available:

1. How do you configure removal of registry settings, that were added during installation and by the installed application, on uninstall? I want to clean the registry of any application entries on uninstall.

2. On completion of installation, there is a dialog that has a checkbox to automatically run application on exit, where do you configure the exe to run?

3. In $TargetDir$, how do you specify contents of a directory that contains both files and subfolders? I want to specify *.* including subfolders, but I am forced to manually add individual files and select each subfolder. I want it to be dynamic where in if I add files or folders later in my release directory, the TargetDir will automatically include them. When I right click->Edit TargetDir, Source Files is disabled so I cannot specify my release directory.

Thank you,
Julius Alba
www.newbielabs.com

[newbielabs]

I posted the following questions a week ago and have not received any response. Can someone from tech support answer these questions? If your product doesn't support these features, any response would be appreciated. We can always go back to using InstallShield.

Thank you.

Thank you for a great product. I started using InstallAware bundled in Delphi2007 for Win32. I am in the process of migrating from InstallShield to InstallAware and just have a couple of questions. I'm not sure if these features are available:

1. How do you configure removal of registry settings, that were added during installation and by the installed application, on uninstall? I want to clean the registry of any application entries on uninstall.

2. On completion of installation, there is a dialog that has a checkbox to automatically run application on exit, where do you configure the exe to run?

3. In $TargetDir$, how do you specify contents of a directory that contains both files and subfolders? I want to specify *.* including subfolders, but I am forced to manually add individual files and select each subfolder. I want it to be dynamic where in if I add files or folders later in my release directory, the TargetDir will automatically include them. When I right click->Edit TargetDir, Source Files is disabled so I cannot specify my release directory.

Thank you,
Julius Alba
www.newbielabs.com

[maharper1]

I have the same question about the running of the exe when the installation finishes. It just does nothing whether checked or not.

Also the Application Runtime for the CodeGear VCL installs to a directory in Program Files named for the $TITLE$ variable. The expected install would be to System32. Also, I have configured my installation to install to $COMPANY$\\$TITLE and so the VCL is not accessible (since it is in neither the application directory nor a directory on the path). I can solve these problems by not using the Application Runtime and adding the VCL files myself, obviously.

[MichaelNesmith]

1. You can use the Delete Registry MSIcode command for this, but this is not available in Express.

2. This is easily added through the Advanced Options | Run Programs design view.

3. The Install Files commands, which the Setup Architecture | Files design view emits, can work with individual files, wildcards, and subfolders when wildcards are used. So you are free to specify to mix and match as necessary. Note that the "Add Folder" button on the designer creates an Install Files command with the wildcard "*.*" and recursion into subfolders; the "Add File(s)" button on the designer simply creates individual Install Files commands without wildcards for each file selected. You can just double-click the files and wildcards displayed under $TARGETDIR$ to view their specific Install Files commands and change them. You can also select multiple files and wildcards to set their attributes in a single pass.