Hi all,
I'm using Installshield Developer 8.0 SP2. I have a custom action which checks to see if Excel is running. I use the Installscript "Is" function with the FILE_LOCKED argument. With one client, the function always returns TRUE even though Excel is not running. The client is using XP SP1. Has anyone else run across this?
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Joe Hayes
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Is and FILE_LOCKED on XP returning false positive
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, Jan 09 2004 17:19
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Stefan Krueger
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Posted 10 January 2004 - 14:55
Does it really return TRUE (= 1), or maybe a value < 0? Note that the Is function has multiple possible return values. Only 1 means TRUE, 0 means FALSE and < 0 are error codes.
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Posted 11 January 2004 - 04:08
I have never had this problem with Installscript, but I used Wise Installmaster earlier and then the "check file in use" feature would return true if the EXE file was read only (that is it would return in-use even if the file was not in use, just read-only).
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Posted 12 January 2004 - 17:52
Try to check for the current running process "Excel". There are several articles in this forum that explains "How to get a list of processes running in the system". There you can check if "Excel" is running.
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Posted 12 January 2004 - 20:44
Here is some code that I use to detect running office applications:
| CODE |
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // // Function: IsOfficeEXEInUse // // Purpose: Checks whether any Microsoft Office executables are in use // during installation / uninstallation. Pops up a warning to the // user to close down the applications if they are found to be // open. The function will not "force" the closing of the // applications, it will just warn the user once. The warning may // show up several times if the new setup is installed on top of // an existing installation. // ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// function IsOfficeEXEInUse ( hMSI ) STRING szOutlookFolder, szOutlookRegistryPath; STRING szPowerPointFolder, szPowerPointRegistryPath; STRING szProjectFolder, szProjectRegistryPath; STRING szWordFolder, szWordRegistryPath; NUMBER nOutlookLocked, nProjectLocked, nWordLocked, nPowerPointLocked; NUMBER nvType, nvSize; begin // Assume default installation folder (if no reg key found) // Outlook szOutlookFolder = PROGRAMFILES ^ "Microsoft Office\\Office"; szOutlookRegistryPath = "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\App Paths\\OUTLOOK.EXE"; // Project szProjectFolder = PROGRAMFILES ^ "Microsoft Office\\Office"; szProjectRegistryPath = "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\App Paths\\WINPROJ.EXE"; // Power Point szPowerPointFolder = PROGRAMFILES ^ "Microsoft Office\\Office"; szPowerPointRegistryPath = "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\App Paths\\POWERPNT.EXE"; // Word szWordFolder = PROGRAMFILES ^ "Microsoft Office\\Office"; szWordRegistryPath = "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\App Paths\\WINWORD.EXE"; // Work in the HKLM section of the registry RegDBSetDefaultRoot ( HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE ); // Read the installation folder from the registry RegDBGetKeyValueEx ( szOutlookRegistryPath, "Path", nvType, szOutlookFolder, nvSize ); RegDBGetKeyValueEx ( szProjectRegistryPath, "Path", nvType, szProjectFolder, nvSize ); RegDBGetKeyValueEx ( szPowerPointRegistryPath, "Path", nvType, szPowerPointFolder, nvSize ); RegDBGetKeyValueEx ( szWordRegistryPath, "Path", nvType, szWordFolder, nvSize ); // Detect if any of the MS Office application executables are in use nOutlookLocked = Is ( FILE_LOCKED, szOutlookFolder ^ "OUTLOOK.EXE" ); nProjectLocked = Is ( FILE_LOCKED, szProjectFolder ^ "WINPROJ.EXE" ); nWordLocked = Is ( FILE_LOCKED, szWordFolder ^ "WINWORD.EXE" ); nPowerPointLocked = Is ( FILE_LOCKED, szPowerPointFolder ^ "POWERPNT.EXE" ); if (nOutlookLocked = 1) ||(nProjectLocked = 1) || (nWordLocked = 1) || (nPowerPointLocked = 1) then SetDialogTitle ( DLG_MSG_INFORMATION, @Generic_Information ); MessageBox ( @Error_OfficeEXEInUse, INFORMATION ); endif; end; |
Edited by Glytzhkof, 12 January 2004 - 20:49.
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Posted 13 January 2004 - 18:53
To force people to close down office apps you just need to use a while loop instead of the if statement.
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