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[jagdishprabhu]

I have a problem in silent installation of a component based project. I do recording to form an iss file. I have used sdComponentTree to selecting / deselecting certian items. The script reads it properly but does not take deselections into considerations. It installs everything.

My iss file looks like below for that tree deselection :
[{8CC14B60-2B3B-11D6-B3DB-0050BA3C611D}-SdComponentTree-0]
szDir=C:\Program Files\EGSoft\Yield Mask
Client-type=string
Client-count=5
Client-0=Client\MaskMapComponent
Client-1=Client\DatasetBuilderComponent
Client-2=Client\MaskGalleryComponent
Client-3=Client\ImageGalleryComponent
Client-4=Client\ChartComponent
SystemComponent-type=string
SystemComponent-count=1
SystemComponent-0=SystemComponent\ProxyStubs
Component-type=string
Component-count=2
Component-0=Client
Component-1=SystemComponent
Result=1

Now while reading i use:
if (MODE=SILENTMODE) then
SdMakeName(svSection,"SdComponentTree","",nComponentTree);
SilentReadData(svSection, "szDir", SilentReadData(svSection, "Component-0", DATA_STRING,svSys, nTemp );

When i use DATA_COMPONENT it aborts.
Kindly suggest what could be the problem?

[Taco Bell]

Well I've never used SilentReadData/SilentWriteData, but the help file says it's for custom dialogs, and SdComponentTree is NOT a custom dialog.

[jagdishprabhu]

I know that sdComponentTree is inbuilt dialog provided by InstallShield but still it does not read the data correctly and installs all the components. Hence the problem.

[Taco Bell]

Well one of your problems was saying that using DATA_COMPONENT caused it to abort, so I was pointing out the fact that the way I read the help you can't correctly use SilentReadData/SilentWriteData since SdComponentTree is NOT a custom dialog.

If you're simply trying to retrieve the selection status for components, call ComponentIsItemSelected instead.

Now, back to your real problem, looking at your ISS file I don't see any de-selections being taken into account, or are those items simply not being listed? 'cause I do use silent setups, but I've never tried to deselect components. I just take the defaults.