After checking for legacy applications, when a particular file is found a directory property is set to point to that particular directory. I'm having problems trying to set this directory to become the installation directory.
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Upgrading Legacy Applications
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Eoin
, Feb 26 2001 17:35
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ezk
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Posted 28 February 2001 - 21:48
Buried here in upgrades and patches is another person with the EXACT SAME QUESTION that I have. I wish I knew the answer... The obvious thing to try was using the setTargetPath control event, but I can't seem to get that to work. Any ideas? Anyone?
Stefan Krueger
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Posted 01 March 2001 - 08:43
Have you tried to specify INSTALLDIR in the property column of the AppSearch table?
ezk
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Posted 02 March 2001 - 22:02
I've finally figured this out, and it's ridiculously easy once you know the trick. In other places (Microsoft SDK) it's well documented how to use AppSearch to find a path and set a custom property to that path. So suppose you do that and set a property called MyPath which points to the path of your legacy app- a 1 line VB Script custom action will do what you need- the magic words are:
Session.Property("INSTALLDIR")=Session.Property("MyPath")
Session.Property("INSTALLDIR")=Session.Property("MyPath")
ezk
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Posted 02 March 2001 - 22:04
Also, I did not see Stephen's post until just now. I never did try what he's suggested.
ezk
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Posted 02 March 2001 - 22:06
Um- Stefan- sorry, Stefan. (You'd think I'd be able to spell the moderator's name correctly!)