InstallAware

Hi,

I was wondering how other users of InstallAware merge their mia scripts.

What I mean is, if you have two developers, each working on a different version of the same InstallAware project, how can you in the future merge the differences?

I know IA provides .txt files and we can easily merge those, but is there a way to copy that text back into the IDE? Regular ctrl-C and paste do not work.

Thanks

There are two types of copy. The conventional one copies the human consumption text as you see it on the screen. But that's not the same as the underlying MSIcode text on which it is based. There is another copy option that will copy the script code and that's the one you want to paste into your file. You can see the difference between them as the MSIcode contains lots of tilde "~" characters and GUIDs.

Thx for the reply.

I believe I understand the difference between how regular copy works, and how copy in the InstallAware Editor works.

I was wondering if the following can be done:

Copy text from a text file (for example, somescript.mia.txt, which IA has an option to write human readable text, like what is in the IDE in this txt file to help with merging, see help file), and paste it into the IDE.

The IDE doesn't seem to allow any pasting of text into the IDE. Not even if you wanted to copy a comment from an email and paste it into the IDE, it will not allow it.