Hi, I am sure that you can find the answer in InstallAware Documentation installed beside. (Under InstallAware Help Library -> Gettting Started -> Developing Setups -> Patching). For InstallAware 7.

Hope this help.

If you notice, IA compiler runs faster on dual core CPU. So you may investigate whether your primary computer is dual core. Also, the debug build which enables debugging takes less time to compile while the release build really takes time especially when you specify good compression and require a lo...

If sometimes Run Program (As) fails and it is possible, I rather run the files when users launch the program I create. As a developer, I find it much easier to do something in my program. Installer should be as simple as possible.

I'd like to know more about this too. The official PDFs published on web site do not contain full details about runtime package authoring.

Is there an application runtime named BDE? If not you can try to add BDE merge module to Deployment | Merge Modules section.

I use Studio edition so I do not know Express edition well. Wish the above helps.

And if you want some video guide, watch this,

http://dn.codegear.com/article/36702

I need to check if there is a Dongle-Driver installed, install them if not ============== This part can be done perfectly if you create a Dongle-Driver runtime, and then add this runtime to your install project. In this way you can ensure that Dongle-Driver is always there. In this forum you can fin...

When I meet IA issues, generally I will fire up a Virtual PC 2007 image of test system which contains a clean OS, then I can start testing if my installer runs OK. You may try if your installer runs well on a clean OS first. Using a clean Virtual PC image with Undo disk enabled you can install once,...

CodeGear ships InstallAware 6 Express edition so if you cannot find miabuild.exe in InstallAware installation folder, it means this command line tool is not part of the Express edition.

I am using Studio edition so I can see miabuild.exe in the folder.

Yesterday my partner found a bug in checkwinpcap.mia. And after digging I found it is because WinPcap installer is created by NSIS, so the uninstallation is slightly different. I will blog about this later on my blog at http://lextm.blogspot.com Never mind. I upload the new runtime package now. Issu...

Guys, slow uninstallation is in fact caused by MSI mechanism, so IMHO InstallAware cannot change it until Microsoft releases a new MSI engine. I understand there are many ways to speed up uninstallation but only Microsoft can modify the MSI engine. BTW, I guess any customization IA add to MSI instal...

Why not set some break point and debug into the variables inside the script. If there are some mistakes in your script, they can be easily detected in this way.

Just an update. I made a mistake in setupwinpcap.mia, which is fixed now.

Please use this new version.

File Attached:

WinPcap.zip

WinPcap is a driver available from http://www.winpcap.org After reading about How to on BDE, I design this WinPcap runtime in an hour. This runtime script is not yet perfect but can be used easily. 1. Copy all rtm and mia files to <InstallAware>\\runtimes 2. Open your project in IA, and in Design mo...

Actually this Run $TITLE$ thing should be removed from your installer if you have users on Windows Vista, and your application is sensitive to UAC/Elevation. Because your installer will run elevated on Windows Vista, it runs your application elevated too while you may expect your application to run ...