Hi everybody,
Hope you are all having a nice Sunday. Since MSI OLE automation is a bit overwhelming, I have been using installers that have JScript/VBScript actions to guide me as to what specific functions/objects to implement next. I started out by implementing all the functions used by the Vector NTI installer (which is how I got into wine programming at all; and which was actually dependent on one of these actions for installing at the time), and for the past few weeks I have been following the functions required by the iTunes 7 installer.
However, now that I have implemented all the functions used by both of these (yay), I am having trouble finding another installer that uses a lot of scripting, so I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions? It really helps to have something like that to guide/motivate me. (I googled "UNHANDLED ACTION TYPE" and tried the installers I found but all the installers I actually tried out didn't seem to use scripting or maybe just unimplmeneted scripting functions anymore).
Alternately, is there any other use for MSI OLE automation besides installers with scriptable actions? If so, what functions would be important for that use? (I know Mike McCormack talked at one point about using these interfaces to run custom actions in a separate process, but I am not really clear as to why automation is really necessary for this and, if so, how exactly it would be used, since all the automation functions are just wrappers around existing functions anyway.)
Thanks a lot Misha
On 5/20/07, Misha Koshelev mk144210@bcm.edu wrote:
Hi everybody,
Hope you are all having a nice Sunday. Since MSI OLE automation is a bit overwhelming, I have been using installers that have JScript/VBScript actions to guide me as to what specific functions/objects to implement next. I started out by implementing all the functions used by the Vector NTI installer (which is how I got into wine programming at all; and which was actually dependent on one of these actions for installing at the time), and for the past few weeks I have been following the functions required by the iTunes 7 installer.
However, now that I have implemented all the functions used by both of these (yay), I am having trouble finding another installer that uses a lot of scripting, so I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions? It really helps to have something like that to guide/motivate me. (I googled "UNHANDLED ACTION TYPE" and tried the installers I found but all the installers I actually tried out didn't seem to use scripting or maybe just unimplmeneted scripting functions anymore).
Alternately, is there any other use for MSI OLE automation besides installers with scriptable actions? If so, what functions would be important for that use? (I know Mike McCormack talked at one point about using these interfaces to run custom actions in a separate process, but I am not really clear as to why automation is really necessary for this and, if so, how exactly it would be used, since all the automation functions are just wrappers around existing functions anyway.)
I'm not sure if this is OLE or not, but AutoIt installers use a lot of scripting and can be wrapped around msi.. I would post locations of where to find quite a few here on the list, but I'm afraid of being flamed for spamming again, so look for my next email.
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