Validating a Serial Number

[smoura]

I've been conducting an evalution of InstallAware Developer, and I cannot see how I'd validate a serial number.

I've been able to add the registrationwithserial dialog. Now my problem comes when validating the serial. I have a DLL with the validation function. The issue here is how do I send the parameter to the function, wich variable identifyes the serial field.

And where can I see a list of variable names for the dialogs?

thanks in advance,
SMoura

[CandiceJones]

Hi!

In the pre-built dialogs, the serials are stored in variables KEY1, KEY2, KEY3, KEY4 and KEY5.

Pre-initialize these variables using Set Variable. You may set them to empty strings each. You should do this before the dialog is shown.

Then you can dereference them anywhere in your script. For example, if you use the value $KEY1$-$KEY2$-$KEY3$-$KEY4$-$KEY5$, and assuming the user entered 0's for each field, the resulting literal would be 00000-00000-00000-00000-00000.

So you can pass that value to your DLL and obtain the result easily.

[CandiceJones]

InstallAware now ships with a serial numbers sample. Just download the latest version, then click File | New | Samples, and double-click the Serial Validation sample.

This sample shows how to generate, and validate, unique serial numbers based on user input (their user name and company names, or any other custom fields you may like). The sample is entirely built in InstallAware script and does not depend on outside DLLs.