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[towergee]

hello, *

Now I encounter this question. I use installshiled Primer to make a installation program. All it need to do are copying some dll files to windows system directory which are self-registered, installing MySQL and MyODBC and executing a script for MySQL.

I choose installscript project and use LaunchAppAndWait to call the setup program of MySQL. I put the script in OnFirstUIAfter(). But after it finished copying dll files to system directory, the installation terminated when MySQL installation program was loaded.

I want to know that in my case what the most common way is to implement. If you can tell me which key words I need to use in google or simply give me a URL, that would be fine.

Thank you in advance.

TowerGee

[Stefan Krueger]

Which project type are you really using? "InstallScript" or "InstallScript MSI"?
How does the function fail? What's the return code/error code/error message etc.

[towergee]

Thanks Stefan Krueger. I am using InstallScript project. There is no funcation error. Now I want to run MySQLSetup.exe in my installation program by using LaunchAppAndWait with WAIT flag. My intallation program continues to run regardless of the running of MySQLSetup.exe. What I want to implement is that after the termination of MySQLSetup.exe process, my installation program can go ahead, otherwise, it is blocked.

[Stefan Krueger]

I guess that MySQLSetup.exe is simply a launcher that starts the real MySQL installer and terminates immediately. Maybe it has a command line option that will keep the launcher alive until the setup is finished. Some InstallShield setups use the /SMS (must be upper case) parameter for this purpose.
Otherwise you would have to add a loop after LaunchAppAndWait that checks to see if the MySQL installation is complete (e.g. looking for some file or registry entry, or waiting for a window handle to disappear, or whatever...)