InstallAware

I recently stepped over from InstallShield to InstallAware and I like the overall behaviour of IA better.

But now I run into a interface issue which I would expect to work. I have organized my setup file and all files are added in a folder structure (not synced with a folder on disk).

However after running a test setup, it appears that I have a top-level folder (directly below targetfolder) in my setup that needs to be removed. I figured to just drag and drop each sub folder to the target folder and that's it. Too bad I found out that there is no d/d support in the folder/file organization. I fugured I could live with that, as long as I could drag the files to new folders which I would then create by hand. Too bad... that too is not supported.

Since it took me many hours to build the setup folder structure with their files I hope you're not going to tell me that the only way to get one folder level out is to manually recreate everything below to the higher level.

e.g.

Now I have Each folder (and there are many more) with many files.

This need to become (notice that My Main Folder is out): Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks

Hert

I am facing the same problem but cannot imagine that reorganizing folders is not possible.

Jacques

Jacques,

Seems like we're in the same boat. Eventually I have manually re-created the full set which took me a few hours again.... I had to continue

The files section could definately be improved in many ways. Apart from supporting d/d I also found the creation of new folders poor. Each time the full tree was re-populated and positioned at the top so for each folder added I have to lookup the folder again. This is very annoying. The same goes for deleting folders.

I hope IA picks this up for a future release.

Hert

Just right-click and choose "Edit" to edit the properties of a file, or a collection of files. You can directly type a different target folder for the files you highlighted, or make other kinds of changes.

You can also use the MSIcode view to make changes, of course.

Michael,

Thank you for responding.

You are correct. A right click on a selection of files works to relocate. I didn't know that yet. Still this is very user unfriendly and d/d would be a much better way of handling.

Also, don't expect everyone to be interested in the MSIcode. I just want a simple installer and have no need for any additional MSI coding hassles. Exactly why there is also a market for your Express version.

Thank you again for pointing me in the right direction and please do consider my comments to be a way of helping you get the product to a higher level.

Hert