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[kgiloo]

I created a CA which should be executed just after "CreateFolders" (it will set the right privileges to my INSTALLDIR).

In the MSI debugger I saw that my CA seems to be launched just after "ISSelfRegisterCosting". At this step of the Setup, the INSTALLDIR is of course not yet created and my CA fails!
Once I reach "CreateFolders" it skips my CA and continue with "MoveFiles"...

Where am I wrong?

[Stefan Krueger]

Did you change the PackageCode with each build (InstallShield usually does this automatically for you). Otherwise you may be running an older version.

Generate a verbose log to see what#s going on.

Remember that your custom action must be scheduled for deferred execution.

[kgiloo]

Good, I changed the CA to "Deferred action" and the CA occurs at the right place now.
In my doc, it is said that a deferred action should always have a Rollback action though there's no need to create one in this case, that's why I decided to choose the "immediate execution". Obviously I was confused by the documentation.

But now I have another poblem, my exe is in the SUPPORTDIR and when I try to invoke it, it seems to be empty.

MsiGetProperty(hMSI, "SUPPORTDIR", svSupportDir, nvSize);

==> SUPPORTDIR = "";

How can I retrieve SUPPORTDIR?

[kgiloo]

I compared the 2 modes "immediate" and "deferred":
immediate mode -> SUPPORTDIR is accessible
deferred mode -> SUPPORTDIR is empty
There's a lot of posts about this topic but cannot find any good hint to solve the problem.

[Stefan Krueger]

Yes, that's expected. You will need to use the CustomActionData detour.

[kgiloo]

That's okay!

The link I used to handle the tricky CustomActionData:
http://www.installsi...s/en/msi/ca.htm

Nevertheless, I'am a bit disappointed that my privileges are just set for the installdir folder only and not for the subfolders and files copied in installdir like it used to work with IS6.