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Dave Melia
Dave Melia

Reputation: 317

Alternate InstallShield SetupCompleteSuccess Dialog

I was wondering if it's possible to alternate the SetupCompleteSuccess dialog for InstallShield based on certain conditions. As hyperlinks on dialogs only work with MSI version 5.00 and above, I have the following conditions set on SetupCompleteSuccess and SetupCompleteSuccessWithLink

VersionMsi >= "5.00"

and

VersionMsi < "5.00"

The problem I'm facing is that SetupCompleteSuccess appears to have a special sequence order of -1 so I'm stuck.

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 254

Answers (2)

Christopher Painter
Christopher Painter

Reputation: 55581

You could use a custom action to emit temporary data into the InstallUISequence table to redirect which dialog is -1 based on VersionMSI.

Personally, I'm of the opinion that people don't really read the dialogs in an installer anyways so I rarely ask questions or tell important information. I'd move the "view website" type requirement to the first run of the application itself.

Upvotes: 0

Michael Urman
Michael Urman

Reputation: 15905

Unfortunately Windows Installer doesn't make this trivial with how their hyperlink control works. This interaction in particular is a bad one.

Here's one approach I suspect would work, but haven't had a chance to try out. In sequence -1, instead of putting the name of a Dialog, put the name of a custom action that chooses between your two alternatives, and invokes the selected one with MsiDoAction or equivalent.

Upvotes: 1

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