Specifications

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When a dialogue is deactivated, InstallShield Tuner automatically modifies the installation logic so as to
ensure that the dialogs are displayed in the proper sequence. Likewise, if a dialog is reactivated,
InstallShield Tuner will place the sequence back in the proper order.
Note: A dialog box can only be disabled if the options that it is supposed to configure are predefined in a
variable.
Add and Remove Programs
Allows to edit key information that will appear in the dialog screen of the add/remove application (accessible
via the Windows Control Panel).
Recommended: Allow the Repair Button to be displayed by changing the value "Disable Repair Button"
from "Yes" to "No".
Package Preparation
The following sections provide guidance for package preparation.
Post validation
This category allows to proceed with the actual creation of the custom installation package, in accordance
with the manner in which it was configured in the previous sections.
The Postvalidation step should be skipped, because, as we saw in the Prevalidation step, we do not have a
clean installation package to being with (that is, an installation package that will not generate any error
messages nor warning messages) and thus, these errors will persist in the Postvalidation phase and prevent
us from deriving any real value out of the Postvalidation phase. As well, it is possible to have a properly
configured and working custom installation package even if this step is skipped.
Package
The Package sub-section, allows to go down the home stretch before issuing the command to create the
actual custom installation package. An additional section, Additional Tools and a sub-section, Direct Editor,
but we have already done the work in this section previously and need not concern ourselves further with
this last section. So we need to concentrate on the Package sub-section. There are four steps that need to
be carried out, which we will cover one by one.
• The Location item, allows to specify where the final image of the custom install kit will be built. This
is a local or network path that tells InstallShield Tuner where to copy all the files and folders that
comprise the custom install package.
• The Setup item, provides information on how to create a setup.exe file and the additional
parameters that will be used when setup.exe will be invoked. Setup.exe simply makes it easier to
invoke the package by clicking on the executable than to have to enter the whole command line
(msiexec /i TRANFORMS=). Given that there are no users running Notes on Windows 95/98 nor
Windows NT, neither the "Include Win95/98 MSI Engine" nor the "Include the WinNT MSI Engine"
checkboxes should be checked.
• In the Windows Installer Command Line Arguments field, it is possible to provide a command-line
parameter that the setup.exe program will use.
Recommended : /passive
Note: Using the parameter /qn as command line argument will result in a completely invisible installation
whereas the /passive command will display only a progress bar. Neither will provide an option for the user to