On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:55:30PM -0400, Gavriel State wrote:
The fix we put into the TransGaming tree was from Andreas Mohr, and it fixed some problems related to previous versions of InstallSheild. We haven't made any progress on v6.
We'd certainly like to see it get done, but our resources are somewhat limited at the moment, and we're concentrating on the DirectX work.
I understand how that works.
Something that's interesting about the InstallShield objects is this: They seem to expose a fair amount of their interfaces through OLE Automation. I don't know for certain, but I have a recollection that some work was done to support Automation for WordPerfect. I can't remember whether that work was actually completed, or bypassed through the use of dde for scripting instead.
Hmm, would be interesting to get more details of what became of that work.
If automation does work, then perhaps it's enough to simply run the InstallShield ikernel.exe and see if the user-side of the installer works through automation rather than requiring marshalling.
Unfortunately I had already tried that, first thing that came to mind once I realized what was going on.