Installshield error (neophyte "programmer")

Visual FoxPro General

lowellnelson


I have developed a VFP prg file and built an exe file, both of which run without errors. I want to distribute the exe file to another location. I am attempting to use InstallShield for the first time. After building the installation program I attempted to test it. The installation program stops before completion, with an error dialog which states "Internal error 2602," then names the exe file which was to have been installed.

Can someone help me understand what I have done wrong

Thanks.
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Re: Installshield error (neophyte "programmer")

Naomi Nosonovsky


Did you follow exactly the steps documented in the Help

Here is some info I found, not sure if this is relevant http://community.macrovision.com/showthread.php t=13682


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Re: Installshield error (neophyte "programmer")

Carl Warner

It sounds as though you failed to reference and include your compiled .exe within the InstallShield LE setup.

Walkthrough: Creating a Visual FoxPro Application Setup Program Using InstallShield Express
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms917481.aspx



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Re: Installshield error (neophyte "programmer")

lowellnelson

Well, I thought so (including the VFP walkthrough), but the result says I didn't. Since I am a rank beginner with InstallShield, I don't have much intuition about the nature of my errors here, and I can't even ask decent questions which are likely to be answerable. I already found the macrovision thread to which you refer, but I couldn't see how I could apply it to my problem.

Thanks.


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Re: Installshield error (neophyte "programmer")

lowellnelson

Thank you Carl,
The walkthrough from VFP 7 which you referenced seems to be pretty much equivalent to the VFP 9 walkthrough which I tried to follow (but which I evidently didn't follow correctly). The exe file was directed to the [installdir], along with the dbc file (after InstallShield prompted me to include it). I realize that my question here is almost unintelligibly obscure. I don't yet have a sense of orientation for InstallShield which allows me to ask questions which are answerable.


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Re: Installshield error (neophyte "programmer")

AndyKr

I am not sure if this is helpful, or not. But there is an alternative which I, and many other VFP Developers have found much easier than InstallShield - a free tool called INNO SETUP.

You can find this tool at http://www.jrsoftware.org/ and an essential (also free add-on) is the ISTool application here: http://www.istool.org/default.aspx/

And Rick Borup has published two comprehensive articles on how to use it to create customizable install packages for VFP Applications. You can find those papers here:

http://www.ita-software.com/foxpage.aspx#papers

  • Introducing Inno Setup (originally published in FoxTalk 2.0, July, 2004) Download Here for Introducing Inno Setup
  • Inno Setup, Part Two (originally published in FoxTalk 2.0, October, 2004) Download Here for Inno Setup, Part Two

    The basic difference is that Inno is full-featured and a lot less cumbersome than InstallShield. It's packages are smaller, faster and easier to manage. It also creates screipts that are plain text that you can read and edit to control the package. A little study and you should be up and running with INNO a lot faster than with InstallShield. (It also lets you do all of the likttle things that the free version of InstallShield does not support).





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