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Is there a speedfolder like entity in installshield?

I seem to have received the privilege of picking up some install shield projects. I've used install anywhere in the past and I was wondering if there was an equivalent of speedfolder in installshield. A speedfolder is a way of blindly copying an entire folder into the project without explicitly selecting each file. ...

How to monitor the installation process through java program?

Hello all, I need help on keeping track of the Installation process through java code. Our installers are developed by using the InstallAnywhere. When the user clicks cancel button the Installer quits but does not leave the system in a cleaned state as before the installation. So kindly help me in tracking of the 'Cancel' button by the ...

Change status line in InstallAnywhere

Howdy, During the installation of our product I have a Merge Module that might have to install .netFramework3.5, Windows Installer 4.5 and SQL Express 2008. This process take about 15 minutes. Is there a way to change what is being displayed on the InstallAnywhere 2009 install dialog when it is running a Merge Module? Thanks -Pete ...

Can an XSLT processor preserve empty CDATA sections?

I'm processing an XML document (an InstallAnywhere .iap_xml installer) before handing it off to another tool (InstallAnywhere itself) to update some values. However, it appears that the XSLT transform I am using is stripping CDATA sections (which appear to be significant to InstallAnywhere) from the document. I'm using Ant 1.7.0, JDK 1...

swing (installanywhere) buttons look broken after updating to Win7

my installanywhere project has swing window with Next, back, etc. buttons and now these look broken (there are no surrounding frames) with my new Win7 machine. Any ideas how to fix these? I believe it happens since JAVA reports itself now "Windows 7" note: AWT buttons work OK ...

InstallAnywhere Flags

I have an old version of InstallAnywhere (6.1) on UNIX, and need to make an adjustment in one of XML files so that it will always install a third party product. Rather than going through the lengthy and pain full GUI process, I was wondering if anybody knew what the flag was I needed to change? ...

InstallAnywhere/LaunchAnywhere modifies the command-line arguments in java application

Hi I have a console application, written in java, and packaged to an executable file (.exe) using InstallAnywhere. Problem is, it seems that the LaunchAnywhere wrapper modifies the way command-line arguments are transferred to the application. (The application itself is some kind of SQL client wrapper, so correct arguments escaping and h...

Installing mongrel service on Windows 2008

We use InstallAnywhere to install our product. One of the components that it needs to install is mongrel. IA invokes the following command line during installation: mongrel_rails service::install -N service-1 -D "Service 1" -c "C:\app_dir\\rails\rails_apps\service-1" -p 19000 -e production Apprently under the hoods "sc create..." is...

Creation of InstallAnywhere installer inside of Hudson CI

My company is trying to automate the creation of a nightly installer with Hudson. Our license to install anywhere is running on a separate server. We have an ANT build script set up to call the InstallAnywhere jar file which creates the installer automatically, and that works great when ran from the command prompt. However when we t...