Re: Calling the Third party setup from my setup.exe thro' LaunchAppandwait
- From: "Maarten Wiltink" <maarten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:01:14 +0100
"Dhamo" <dhamodaran.c@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1135581780.587412.122760@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hai,
> Can anyone find a solution for my problem ?...........
>
> For our Company's product we are creating an Installation
> package for our product with InstallShield 5.1 professional edition.
Poor you. Poor us, too. We have InstallShield 6.5 at work. We got the
newsletter last week that they're now at version 11...
> Since we are using third party software in our product we need
> to install there setup.exe along with our Installation package.
>
> Their setup contains two separate installation package for 2 different
> software...and also it has one condition that without installing 1 of
> them we cant install the another one.
>
> since we need both the Software to be installed before our
> product(application runs) i used LaunchAppandWait Install shield
> function call to launch the first one.It works good..but the reboot
> dialog of the third party setup.exe(Do u want to restart the system or
> no) is not working even when i say to restart(system is not getting
> restart) and my setup.exe starts continuing.
>
> Can anyone help me how to know the ouput from third party setup
> dialog..if possible ?
In all simplicity, it can't be done. InstallScript is a very limited
environment. LaunchAppAndWait simply doesn't return that information
to you.
You can treat it as a prerequisite and check the registry for the
information the other setup leaves there. Or you can launch it and
hope for the best, without guarantees.
Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink
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