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[badejo]

The app I am installing was written to look for certain items (dll's, etc.) in a specific path off of the current drive.  Therefore I want to allow the user to choose the drive letter but have the rest of the path hard-coded.

Currently I am doing this using the AskText dialog, but it is allowing entry of multiple letters, not just one character.  I have tried limiting the string to one character in the declaration, as in:

string  svResult[2];

Stating two characters so one will hold the null string character, but the dialog still accepts alot more characters that this.  This method worked in InstallShield 5.

I realize I can always strip out the first character and do some error checking, but it would be better if I could eliminate possible user confusion.

Any ideas?

[Stefan Krueger]

Wouldn't a combo box be more suitable?

[badejo]

After some help from installshield someone finally pointed me to the GetValidDrivesList function.  I was able to use it to get a list of the drives that met my criteria, then I created  a custom dialog box with a listbox and populated it with the list obtained from the GetValidDrives function.

I think this approach is better because it keeps the user from selecting a drive that does not exist on their system.

Works with both fixed and network drives, as I call it twice, then merge the two lists together.