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Forgot about this NG
At the Finish of an installation, I need to run a Word.rtf and then run 2
executables.

How do I get the 3 items to Wait for the previous to finish. They are
running all over each other
I need something similar to Run('blah',1) Wait Parm

They need to run in this order after Finish is Pressed in SB6, but only one
at a time

Word.rtf
a.exe
b.exe


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> At the Finish of an installation, I need to run a Word.rtf and then run 2
> executables.

> At the Finish of an installation, I need to run a Word.rtf and then run 2
> executables.

(cc from the other NG for the benefit of others here)


Dan,

Word to the wise.

On Vista, if those executables do anything user specific - they are not
going to work as expected.

Your installer is running (or should be) in elevated status, the user (even
when logged in as a super user under Vista) is NOT. Vista executes
programs for Dan the administrator as Dan the user.

This means that any registry writes to HKCU or data written to the user
path where your using CSIDL to get the location of My Documents will be
pointing at the super user account - NOT at the regular user account.

The Microsoft recommendation is NOT to run things at the end of an install
under Vista and if you must, then only something like launching the RTF
file.

Your other actions need to take place when your program is ran for the
first time after an update (or you use a post installer that is ran at the
user access level) AFTER the main installer has terminated.


Other than that bit of news for you - the SB examples show how to launch
items at the end of the install based on a checkbox - but the wait
sequencing may give you problems.

I'd ask if this helps, but obviously you did not want to hear what I told
you.

;-)

Charles


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Charles

I always appreciate anything you tell me, or anyone tells me for sure.

Anyway, yes, I could run the update at start of my program after the install
update,
but it would be so much easier to do it from SB6. I always have, but never
more than
one exe at the end.
BTW, I have convinced most of my customer to stay away from Veesta, so I
don't have
the headaches of Veesta yet, but someday I am sure I will, especially after
I run out of
XP Pro licenses to sell, but that's a year or 2 down the road. Who knows,
maybe the Mac
commercials will get MS head on straight.

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Dan,

Two different options:

1. "Run Program" Visualizer

a. Select the "Run Program" Visualizer
b. Add item to be executed
c. Select "Finish Dialog" Tab
d. Enter a Checkbox Text (e.g. Launch xyz)
e. Mark "Run program once the installation exists"

2. Script Editor

See "Run Check Box 1.sb6" demo script in the Examples package.

BTW, to wait for the program to be finished, check the "Waif for Program"
checkbox in the Run Program item.

Does this help?

Friedrich

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Friedrich

You have so much stuff in SB6 that I am awe struck.
Haven't seen visualizer yet, but will look in the help files for what it
does.

I think I checked wait for program, but doesn't that simply pause SB6?

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Hi Dan,

> You have so much stuff in SB6 that I am awe struck.
> Haven't seen visualizer yet, but will look in the help files for what it
> does.
>
> I think I checked wait for program, but doesn't that simply pause SB6?

The "Sleep..." script function would "pause" a SB6 installer.

The "Wait..." option in a Run Program function cause the installer to be
suspended until the external program has finished.

See attached screenshots.

Does this help?

Friedrich

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Friedrich got me all fixed up

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Dan,

I am guessing that the [ ] Wait for Program checkbox in the SetupBuilder
Run Program... or Run Command Line... are not working for you? If this
is the case, then it is likely because the Finish Dialog is the final
stop and with no more Loop Wizard active, it is forcing its way through
the rest of the script (just a guess). I would have to test it to see
what you are up against, but I do have solutions for that too. However,
you may want to just consider writing and calling a simple (single)
Clarion program to do what you need, as I know you are an expert at that
already :-)

Cheers,

Andy Kaczmarczyk
www.clariontools.com

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Andy

Thanks for the quick reply. I was leaning toward do a quick prog to run the
2 exe's, but thought with all sb6 has, it may have a way to do this in the
script.
BTW, the Wait flag in the script simply suspends SB6 installer, not the run
programs

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Dan,

You could use the Wait flag, but would need to be inside the Loop Wizard
for it to work as expected. This would be a little tricky as I recall,
the Finish Dialog leaves the Loop Wizard when Finish is selected, so I
created a pseudo Finish Dialog by using one of the other dialogs and
changing the button text, hiding the back button, etc..., then I added
another dialog that allowed me to keep the Loop Wizard active until I
finished my external processes. There were some other tricks I needed to
get this to work (way too complicated to describe in this response), so I
think you may be better off with calling a custom program.

Regards,

Andy Kaczmarczyk
www.clariontools.com