Inno setup destdir

Note that the captions of buttons in message boxes can't be translated. These captions are always in the same language as Windows itself. So if the user is running an English edition of Windows, they will see English button captions. This is normal behavior for any application that displays message boxes using the Windows MessageBox function. At the present time, there are no plans for a Windows Installer edition of Inno Setup.

The installer's icon may be changed by setting the SetupIconFile [Setup] section directive. To set the uninstaller's icon, set UninstallDisplayIcon. Yes, through the Pascal Scripting feature. See the CodeDownloadFiles. No, nor is such a feature planned it would be abused.

In order to access a given user's registry hive the user's profile must first be loaded, and in order to do that, authentication is necessary. An uninstaller would not know the user's password. On Windows XP, user profiles can be marked "private", where no one but the user himself can access the files inside it.

And in a roaming profile setup, it's impossible to even know the path in which a given user's profile resides without authenticating first. To deal with this situation do what other installers do: simply leave the HKCU keys of other users in place. This is primarily dependent on which development tool your application was created with. Check its documentation. If you determine that your application depends on a particular Microsoft DLL that doesn't come preinstalled with Windows then first of all, do not deploy DLLs out of your own Windows directory.

Files in your own Windows directory are often tailored for your specific version of Windows, and will not work on other versions of Windows -- or worse see below. This is especially true when you're running the very latest version of Windows. Instead, search for versions of the DLL on Microsoft's web site that are deemed "redistributable". If nothing turns up, then probably you aren't allowed to individually deploy the DLL in question.

When deploying an installation that is an "update" or "add-on" to an existing installation, you probably want the following criteria to be met:. If you never set AppId in the original application, then set AppId to the value of AppName used in the original application. Also see the Same Application topic in the documentation for details. This message is typically displayed if you try to embed a quote " character in a parameter's data, but do not double it as required.

Read the "Parameters in Sections" topic in the documentation for more information. Your application is most likely not specifying pathnames on the files it is trying to open, so it is expecting to find them in the current directory. Inno Setup by default does not set the "Start In" field on shortcuts its creates; this causes Windows to pick a directory itself, which usually won't be the directory containing your application.

In virtually all cases, this is something that should be corrected at the application level. Properly designed GUI applications should not expect to be started from a particular directory; they should always specify full pathnames on files they open.

To get the full path of a file named "File. This error message is displayed when a file pertaining to the installation e. It is not displayed for any other reason. If your installation is distributed over the internet and you're getting a lot of reports of this error, it could be that your web server is delivering partial files by dropping connections prematurely.

Have the affected users check the size in the bytes of the file s they downloaded. Additionally, a new uninstall log file unins???. The obvious solution for this is to not change AppId or AppName. This message normally means that you specified the "regserver" flag on a file that doesn't possess the ability to be registered. Remove the "regserver" flag from the [Files] entry and the message will go away. From Tim Rude: The simplest way to get a batch file to automatically close on exit is to clear the screen at the end of it using the CLS command.

At startup Setup looks in the registry to see if the same application was already installed previously, and if so, it will use the directory of the previous installation as the default directory presented to the user in the wizard. If you uninstall the application and run Setup again, it will use the new DefaultDirName setting.

If you wish to disable this feature, set UsePreviousAppDir to "no". Two files can't have the same name, and since shortcuts are files, two shortcuts therefore can't have the same name. First, make sure that you are not using the "nowait" or "waituntilidle" flags on the [Run] entry.

These flags prevent Setup from waiting until the process completely terminates. If you aren't using those flags and it still doesn't seem to be waiting for the program to finish, then likely what is happening is that the EXE you're running is spawning some other process and then terminating itself immediately, causing Setup to think the program has finished.

Your installation requires administrative privileges and is running elevated: Mapped drives are not available by default to any elevated application.

This was introduced in Windows Vista. There is an option to make them available for same user elevation, but this won't help the situation when run from a LUA where the user changes. Use the Pascal Scripting feature or the [Run] section:. The [Run] section is an oft overlooked yet simple method of performing custom installation tasks. First, write a small program in the development tool of your choice preferably one that creates stand-alone EXEs, such as Delphi that performs the desired task, and copy its EXE to your script directory.

Then add a [Run] section entry, telling Setup to execute the EXE after all other installation steps:. You could alternatively incorporate the installation task into your application's main EXE and have it perform the task when called with a special command line parameter. It must be combined with the Flags: external, so that Inno Setup knows not to look for it when your script is compiled. DestDir will be created by the installer, and files copied in.

I've hard-coded the directory name in this example, but what we actually do I will discuss in my next Inno Setup post - we let the user choose. Flags: external means the files should be present when the installer runs, not when it is compiled. This is useful for updating data - you don't want to over-write files the user may have worked on and modified.

Permissions: users-modify is also very cool - since we are not installing into My Documents because our data is big and we want everyone to share the data , we have to make sure user-level accounts i. Next time: Allowing the user to customize where this data goes, and whether to install it or not. Edit: It's up. Post a Comment. Popular posts from this blog Inno Setup custom data directory location September 02, September 02, Here's how to do that in an Inno Setup script.

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