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I am currently evaluating Setup Squeezer as a possible addition to our installation arsenal, and I am faced with the following situation:

I have an MSI which installs an application. There are a number of localization transforms which, when applied to the MSI, create a translated version of the installer. There is also a setup bootstrapper which presents a pulldown menu to the user, allowing them to select their desired language. Once the language is selected, the transform is applied to the MSI and msiexec is called. (This was all built using InstallShield, by the way.)

When I use InstallAware Setup Squeezer for MSI, it produces an executable which completely bypasses the language selection, and so the installer ends up being English-only. InstallAware Setup Squeezer for InstallShield produces a similar executable.

Ideally, I would like to encapsulate this entire process (user selects language, transform gets applied, etc) inside the Setup-Squeezed executable. One possible workaround that springs to mind is if the executable can pause after recomposition and apply the desired transform (or call a script, or otherwise execute some sort of callback to custom code). Is this possible with Setup Squeezer?

On a related note, I have been unable to find any documentation, user's guide, compiled help, or whatever for Setup Squeezer. Is there any? If so, where can I find it?

Regards,

Mike Hammond

Setup Squeezer takes a heuristic approach and is not customizable in the ways you describe. What we can do is, deliver you a customized version which will perform per your requirements in your own environment. This would be treated as a consulting project - which have 8 hour minimums and a $119/hr competitive rate.

If you are interested, please drop sales an email, describing in detail your requirements, so we can get you a custom quote!

Thank you for your response. We're not interested in a customized version at this time; I was just curious as to whether Setup Squeezer could do this out of the box.

As for my other question, is there any relevant documentation for Setup Squeezer (either incarnation) available? If so, where?

Regards,

Mike Hammond

Hi Mike,

Sorry, the basic tool does not have any documentation, as it employs a step by step wizard with little room for customization.

You can also check out InstallAware, and the Setup Decompressor bundled with it. Using that tool manually, you would get a lot more manual control over the entire process, building your package any way you need it to be.