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I've been working on a project for the last couple days and ran into a sticking point. Find below the details:

The application in question is a "maintenance wizard" for my existing...

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First of all, no worries. :). I al always happy to help where I can. If you’ve got questions, I am willing to help!

Tim:

Please find below a link to my Mega Cloud drive with a ZIP file containing a demonstration project that I put together showing how it's done. In the ZIP is a RTF file that explains how it...

Tim:

First of all, thank you for the kind offer; however, that won't be necessary as 1) I'm permanently disabled from birth :D and so "retirement" is not in my future as even living on a fixed...

Hi, yes, I would be happy to build a sample project using the X6 version of that dependency. And I will attach it here for the record. It might take me a couple of days, but I’ll get it done if I...

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The way I handled this is: 1) remove the core prerequisite
2) have vcredist.ext as a support file
3) do a check for the covual C++ redistribution (if installed set variable to 0, if not set...

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Hope this finds you all well and that 2024 is bringing smiles, I wanted to do some heavy lifting with the custom install as follows:

1) if the setup is launched without any...

Looking forward to it :-)

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I found a previous post from Linder who mentioned an undocumented feature for doing this.

Note I think that all dialog box control IDs should be documented in common definitions or...

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I would like to disable a checkbox based on conditions set in my script. I've got the conditional logic down, but I don't know what the control ID is for the check boxes using the standard...

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Here's what I'm after, I have 3 versions of the application and what I want to do is the following:
1) if any version in installed and there is no previous version, run it just like a...

Well, I'm a bit late to the party on this one but here's for nothing:

If you have a different configuration of a software (example: you want one build with a help file included and one without),...

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I've been fighting with this for the last several hours and here's the flow:

1) User selects from radio buttons and the response is stored in variables on next (if option 1 set variable 1 =...

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Just got the latest beta in an XP vm today for testing and at least to me the drop-down arrow to the right of the toolbar's "Open" button (that results in a "Pick" screen) seems a bit smashed...

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I recently came across an old version of InstallShield (around the 11.x days) and thought I'd give it a try to see if I could acquire a taste for it (nope! still don't like it) and in my...

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I am curious if SB can be run on windows terminal services? My reasoning for this is that I want to load my current production license into a terminal server where I can run it as remote...

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I'm curious how I can clone an existing dialog (say the topics dialog for example) to use in the Visual Dialog editor to allow me to take all the functionality then say add a small graphic...

I am curious as to the following:

How do I loop a dialog? As to say I've got a text box dialog that is supposed to act as a "User Check" meaning that they will read through a bunch of screens...

I'm honestly excited for what the new versions might bring. Friedrich, You folks are amazing (I still don't use anything else to build my installs)

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I often need to re-deploy installations made by others in my organization using the advanced installation features of SB and recently I found a wonderful "free to use" tool called...

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I’d like to check if a service pack is installed on the target OS (if so, which service pack). How can i do this?

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As of right now, the included SB uninstaller cannot add components to an existing deployment, remove only certain features of an existing deployment, or repair the existing feature set. As a...

Thanks for that! At least I know ive not lost my mind :)

So, I’m working on a huge installation project and when I go to debug it, it seems as if it’s reading that the installer is in the installation folder for my SB program. The reason why this is a...

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I’ve managed to DIY a solution together using Microsoft cab files and a free extraction program. So now on my files are grouped into appropriate cab files, and then at set up time based on the...