InstallAware

In my MSI, I need to detect whether the user's computer has various applications or dlls installed (such as QuickTime or Flash or whatever). Is this something that InstallAware can handle?

Absolutely. You can read registry keys, files, installed product guids, and literally everything else you may need to do for detecting an installed product.

I installed the evaluation version of InstallAware Enterprise 2005, but I can't find anywhere in the "Application Requirements" or "Registry" sections of the project where I can read existing registry values or check for installed ProgIds.

Can you give me a basic idea of how I would detect if, for example, the PowerPoint.Application ProgId is present?

Thanks.

mtciamndn wrote:I installed the evaluation version of InstallAware Enterprise 2005, but I can't find anywhere in the "Application Requirements" or "Registry" sections of the project where I can read existing registry values or check for installed ProgIds.

Can you give me a basic idea of how I would detect if, for example, the PowerPoint.Application ProgId is present?

Thanks.

Let me clarify a bit:

Suppose I want to check to see if the registry key [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\\PowerPoint.Application] exists. How would I do that?

Thanks.

I though I had figured it out on my own... but it's still not working. I put the following code toward the beginning of the script, right after where the script checks the browser version.



What do I need to do differently? I thought this would work!!

It should. Try pasting your actual code so I can see what you may be doing wrong.

I figured out how to make it work. It just seems a little counterintuitive to just leave out the "Compare With" field to compare against an empty string.. especially with the way it looks in the code view.