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[woter324]

Hi all,

Having a little problem:

Created a property in the property table called SVRQTY. This is set by a combo box at runtime b4 cost finalise. Possible values are 01 - 05.

The value of this needs to be added to the installation path.

I have set the destination under the component to
INSTALLDIRservers\dev[SVRQTY]. However this created the path ...\servers\dev[SVRQTY].

Assuming the combo box value has been set to 01, does anyone know how to create the path ...\servers\dev01?

MITA.

Woter

[Stefan Krueger]

Directory properties always need to be the full path. Try this:

1. As component destination set a default path, e.g. [INSTALLDIR]servers\dev01
2. InstallShield automatically creates a directory property for this, displayed in {}
3. Add a custom action or a control event to set the directory property from step 2 to the desired value of [INSTALLDIR]servers\dev[SVRQTY]\
You can even do this after CostFinalize (in general CostFinalize is called before the dialogs are displayed) using a custom action type 35.

[woter324]

Thanks Stefan,

It now passes the value of [SVRQTY] to the directory stucture, however it is not setting the property to the value set by the combo box.

e.g. "[INSTALLDIR]servers\dev[SVRQTY]\" resolves to "[INSTALLDIR]servers\dev0\" where 0 is the value of SVRQTY property.

The property of the combobox is SVRQTY. Is this right? The combo box has the values 01, 02, 03, 04 or 05. This is what I am expecting to see in the dir structure.

I have set Install UI Sequence to AfterCostFinalise.

Any ideas?

MITA

Adrian

[woter324]

I've answered my own question. Add the custom action to a DoAction on a button on a dialog. It didn't work after cost finalise.

Thanks