I want to run my exe after installation using InstallShield.
InstallShield completes the setup correctly but do not run the exe.
I found another way to add an exe in startup but it runs after restart.
I would like it to run without restart.
Is it possible ?
What version and edition of InstallShield are you using? Also what project type are you using? (InstallScript, InstallScript MSI, Basic MSI? )
Assuming Basic MSI, InstallShield has a built-in pattern to support this story:
1) Click on the Project Assistant Tab
2) Click on the Installation Interview Icon (Page)
3) Click Yes for "Do you want to give the users the option to launch your application when the installation completes?
4) Click the browse button to select the EXE that should be the target of the operation.
By default the checkbox (launch program) on the setup complete dialog will not be selected. To select it automatically add the property LAUNCHPROGRAM to the property table and set it to a value of '1'.
Christopher Painter's answer will work for you most of the time. Those are the initial steps to take, but there are some additional details if you find that isn't enough. For instance, skb reported that this didn't work for him. I found that I was in the same boat (even though I've built a dozen other installers which had this work!).
Follow Christopher Painter's instructions.
Click on the "Installation Designer" tab. Within "User Interface" select "Dialogs".
Within "All Dialogs", expand "SetupCompleteSuccess", and select "Behavior".
Select the "Ok" push button control. Then, select "Events". (look to the bottom of the screen where it says Events/Subscriptions/Conditions)
You should have a "DoAction" event, with an "argument" equal to "IS_LAUNCH_MY_PROGRAM_PLEASE" and a "condition" of "LAUNCHPROGRAM". If not - add that. "LAUNCHPROGRAM" refers to the property of that name. It will have a value of 1 if the launch checkbox is selected, and thus meet this condition. IS_LAUNCH_MY_PROGRAM_PLEASE refers to the Custom Action which is launched. If you want, you can change that CA here to make any custom action fire instead. I opted to leave this alone, but replace the CA with one of my own.
Open your list of Custom Actions (Behavior and logic... Custom actions and sequences). You should find a CA there named IS_LAUNCH_MY_PROGRAM_PLEASE. Delete it!
Add your own IS_LAUNCH_MY_PROGRAM_PLEASE CA. Right-click "Custom Action" (the list header) and select the type of CA you want - or launch the wizard. Just be sure to name it "IS_LAUNCH_MY_PROGRAM_PLEASE" if you left the dialog behavior as it defaults.
To launch an exe - with the WORKING DIRECTORY changed (which was the reason my app wouldn't appear, and apparently skb's as well based on the comments) Select "New EXE"..."Path referencing a directory". Change "Return processing" to "Asynchronous (no wait for completion)". Note the "MSI type number" becomes 226. Set the "Working directory" to INSTALLDIR(assuming the program you want to launch should be found in your new program's directory). Set "Filename & command line" to [INSTALLDIR]YourApp.exe.
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I want to create a BAM activity/view. I have Office 32-bit. Do I need to open some specific BAM spreadsheet/model first?
This page shows how it works in Excel 2007: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa559526(v=bts.20).aspx But I haven't found anything for more recent versions.
If I open a new empty spreadsheet, and click Add-Ins, I see nothing but the following:
If I right click "Add-Ins" and select "Customize Quick Access Toolbar", I then see this screen - which looks like probably what I need, but still don't know the exact procedure to add the BAM Adds here.
It might be wiser to find and edit the file outside of Excel first: The add-in file is: "c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16\Library\Bam.xla"
I clicked on "Business Activity Monitoring" - then what should I do next to get the menus needed to add the BAM Activity.
Looks like you click the "Go" button to the right of "Manage Excel Add-Ins".
Then the following box pops-up, and I can check "Business Activity Monitoring" and then "Ok".
If it doesn't appear there, you can click the "Browse" button, go to the ""c:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16\Library" folder and select "Bam.xla".
If you are in Excel 64-bit, instead of 32-bit, you will get this error:
But so far, after doing that, I still don't see any new "BAM" menu in Excel.
I was seeing error:
Compile error: The code in this project must be updated for use on
64-bit systems. Please review and update Declare statements and then
mark them with the PtrSafe attribute.
If you get that, it means you are probably on 64-bit, not 32-bit version of Excel. I was told by another team they installed 32-bit, but low and behold, they did not. You can check the version using the following steps:
1) File (menu)
2) (click) Account
3) Click the square (almost doesn't look like a button that says "? About Excel"
After getting the 32-bit, it looks okay, the BAM menu appears as follows (under the "Add-Ins" tab:
If you click the "BAM Activity" and get the error "Variable not defined", then see this link: https://oussov.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/bam-xla-variable-not-defined-error-in-excel/
I'm using Aptana Studio 3 and am looking for a command that will take me to the previous editor I was in (a la Netbeans ctrl-tab or Eclipse's ctrl-F6). I've tried several commands with promising sounding names but none of them seem to behave properly. Any thoughts?
Go to Windows->Preferences->General->Keys and have a look at the key binding you have set for the commands 'Next Editor' and 'Previous Editor'. Type those commands in the filter search box to save yourself having to scroll.
On Windows the shortcuts for next and previous editor are in fact Ctrl+F6 and Ctrl+Shift+F6 respectively, which also happen to be the defaults in Eclipse. So if your key bindings for those commands are not set then you can set them here.
(1) For example, I want to set map gd g* in Qt's Fakevim like below but failed.
(2) And also I'd like to set F3 as the save command, how to do it?
(3) In Fakevim, it provides an option "Read .vimrc", but where to find the file .vimrc?
Thank you!
It doesn't look like there is a lot of documentation for FakeVim, so official sources might not exist. Most of this was obtained by experimentation.
If you want to dig deeper, I guess there's no source as official as the actual source: http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-creator/qt-creator/blobs/0809986e501415fe2c8508800b94b5b3169dc048/src/plugins/fakevim/fakevimplugin.cpp
User commands
First off, realize that in Tools>Options>FakeVim>User Command Mapping, you're only setting what your user actions will perform, not how you perform them.
By default, user command #1 is triggered by pressing Alt-V, then 1.
Alt-V, then 2, triggers user action #2, and so on.
You can change the keyboard shortcuts through the general QtCreator configuration interface, under Tools>Options>Environment>Keyboard. There is a "FakeVim" section with all the user actions listed. Select your user action of choice, press the little "erase" icon in the input field under "Shortcut", then press your desired shortcut key, which should appear in the input field.
Second, to finish a command where you would normally press enter, you should literally type in <CR> after the commands. You also need to enter in ':' to enter command mode.
So if you wanted to map the vim save command, ":w", to F3 via FakeVim, you would:
Go to Tools>Options>FakeVim>User Command Mapping.
Enter ":w<CR>" as one of the user commands (say #7).
Go to Tools>Options>Environment>Keyboard.
Find the FakeVim action "UserAction7".
Set F3 as a shortcut for it.
Now, every time you're in the editor, you should be able to click F3 and have the FakeVim :w command execute, which will save your file.
Note that there is also an option to set a shortcut for "Save" directly in the QtCreator keyboard settings, so for this particular shortcut you don't actually need to go through FakeVim.
Setting shortcuts for other vim commands should be similar. Note that you're restricted to the subset of vim commands that FakeVim implements. Refer to the source, linked above, for checking any particular command you're wondering about.
Vimrc file
On Linux this would be ~/.vimrc, a file in the user's home directory. I presume you're asking about Windows.
The best source I can find is this bug report about it being hard to use Fakevim's vimrc on Windows: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTCREATORBUG-8748
Following that, the file Fakevim looks for is ".vimrc" in %USERPROFILE% (you can enter a name like that in Explorer to go to the folder). However, it's tricky to access a file with a name like that on Windows. (Thus why the real vim uses '_vimrc' on Windows -- but FakeVim apparently doesn't, at least at the moment.)
Here is a superuser page with workarounds for how to create such files on Windows: https://superuser.com/questions/64471/create-rename-a-file-folder-that-begins-with-a-dot-in-windows
I want to delete this red-marked target, but am unable to.
The "minus" button in the dialogue remains greyed-out, it doesn't respond to backspace or delete keys and right-clicking just brings up help options. I can drag the missing-red-marked target above or below the working black target, but it doesn't let me delete it.
This missing red target only seems to appear in this edit schemes dialogue.
In my main project/target window, I just have the one good target there.
Any ideas how to clean this up and delete this missing target?
What worked for me was to designate another executable (or none) in the existing scheme's various actions (run, test, etc.). It's the fact it's in use in the scheme's actions that prevents its deletion. I discovered this during my research for Mastering Xcode 4 (yes, shameless plug). :-)
Try creating a brand new scheme (via "New Scheme" or "Manage Schemes...") and start using that.
Once your new scheme is building properly and is set as a default, you should be able to delete the old scheme with the bogus "missing" target.
The real issue here is explained by Joar Wingfors in the Xcode-users mailing list (emphasis mine):
In the scheme sheet you cannot delete things from one tab that some
other tab depend on. In this case you probably have to delete the
target from the test tab before you can delete it from the build tab.
Or something along those lines.
I had the exact same problem. Solved by closing the xCode and externally editing the schema file to delete the bundlableResource section for the missing library. Not the safest of all methods but it works.
First delete all schemes and then generate the schemes again. Work for me .
What Joshua said, a bit tailored. Go through all various actions and change the missing executable to an existing one.
In your case, go to 'Profile' and switch to the new app. Same if you encounter this in 'Test' tab.
I've been trying to figure out how to programmatically add files to an Xcode4 project and it seemed like AppleScript would be the way to go, however I'm running into "missing value" errors.
Here's the code I've got:
tell application "Xcode"
set theProject to first project
set theTarget to first target of theProject
set theBuildPhase to compile sources phase of theTarget
tell first group of theProject
set theFileRef to make new file reference with properties {full path:"/Users/jeff/Projects/XcodeTest/XcodeTest/MyViewController.h", name:"MyViewController.h", path:"XcodeTest/MyViewController.h", path type:group relative}
add theFileRef to theProject
end tell
--tell theBuildPhase to make new build file with properties {build phase:theBuildPhase, name:"MyViewController.h", file reference:theFileRef, target:theTarget, project:theProject}
end tell
I've tried the commented-out line instead of the add-command as well, but that doesn't work either (I get "missing value").
The 'add' error is:
error "Xcode got an error: file reference id \"251AD3431432472E006E300F\" of Xcode 3 group id \"251AD32C14324645006E300F\" of project \"XcodeTest\" of workspace document \"XcodeTest.xcodeproj/project.xcworkspace\" doesn’t understand the add message." number -1708 from file reference id "251AD3431432472E006E300F" of Xcode 3 group id "251AD32C14324645006E300F" of project "XcodeTest" of workspace document "XcodeTest.xcodeproj/project.xcworkspace"
The "make new reference" does add the file to the list of files in Xcode, but I also need it to be added to the project target so that I can add actions and outlets to the file from Xcode w/o having to first check the checkbox to add it to the "target membership".
I ended up sending this question to the devs on the xcode developer list and the response I got was effectively "you can't".
This appears to be completely broken in Xcode4, but I've seen a project that does it. I think what they are doing is parsing and modifying the "project.pbxproj" file directly. (this file is hidden inside the xcodeproj bundle)
The file is a GUID soup, but once you look at it for a while it seems possible to safely modify it, especially if you are only adding stuff.
Edit:
Found this stackoverflow answer that might help.
Tutorial or Guide for Scripting XCode Build Phases
There is a poorly documented user defined build setting that can be added. Files can be both excluded and included from compilation
Go to your target's Build Settings > Tap the + button > Add User-Defined Setting
The key is either INCLUDED_SOURCE_FILE_NAMES or EXCLUDED_SOURCE_FILE_NAMES
The value is a space separated list of file paths
See reference:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/xcode-users/2009/Jun/msg00153.html