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Hi,

is there any way of defining other values for the day and time comboboxes in the update_setup_schedule Dialog?
Cause Sunday 3 AM is not o time where our customers will have there PC`s turend on
And if someone doesnt change the preset values, he will never get notified that an update is available.

I tried to set the UPDATE_DATE and UPDATE_TIME variables in the update script, but this doesn't change anything.

In the "Define Interactive Characteristics" Dialog its also not possible to set a variable in the "receives information" field, cause it seems that this feature isnt working with comboboxes.

would be great if you can give me some advice to make this work!
(as Sunday 3 AM are not the values with index 0 in the list of values, i think there must be some way to influence that).


A second problem with the /updatesetup mechanism is, that the once set date/time is not preserved if the updatesetup is started the next time. (other values like choosing only to notify of updates, or directly download and install them are preserved, so i also hope that the date/time could be preserved to).


Hope this is all possible, so i can make my customer happy

thnx for answering, Stefan.

Sorry for Selfreplying, but i really need to get this done, and i really hoped to get this answered by support

Any help is really appreciated. (or is it really needed to pay for Gold Support, to get answers like this? )

Regards, Stefan

I Just changed the following lines in the updates script:

to:


and it works as expected. It shows Every Monday 3:00 PM as defaults.

Strange.

Thats what i tried first

i was testing alot for this, and it never worked out.

finally i changed it to german (thanx to tinus for providing his scripts), so that at least the language fits.

But i did my testing before this change.

I will try it in e fresh project again. Maybe i find some other problem.


What would be a great feature, is if the Configure Update mechanism would recognize custom made Settings from the last run, so if the customer starts the configuration again, he will be provided his old settings as starting point, an not the defaults provided by setup.

I was told that this is annoying, if they want to change the update mechanism (for example from automatic to download and notify) and the other settings are lost.
thnx, Stefan

Stefan,

if you have localised your setup to German, you use settings stored in the localised file. And I assume that you have not change these settings there.

Thanks for your Reply Martin!

First i let this dialog with english, cause i wanted this to work.
As i had no chance to get it working in my project, i at least changed it to german, so my customer is at least a bit happy.


I tried really all combinations with setting the variable in script and in dialog.


Whats the normal way if i localize the setup? do i have to set the varialbe in the update script in the localized form or in the original english form?
(just for information, as in my project no way of both works )

thnx, stefan

You should delay localization as long as possible.
First get your installer working, the start localizing.

You need to change the values in the script. Then you need to verify the variable assignment in all localizations too (using the installaware translator).