I need to test the uninstall feature of Inno Setup scripts. The easiest way I have found to do this is to directly manipulate the registry to add the log switch on the command line. [Setup]: AppId According to the Inno help, AppId also determines the actual name of the Uninstall registry key, to which Inno Setup tacks… Read More »
Much of this information is in pulled directly from the Inno Setup Installation Order page on the web. I wanted to add a bit of additional information regarding when Inno calls pre-defined Pascal scripts. My comments are in yellow and I have added function/procedure definitions where applicable. Installation Order Once the actual installation process begins, this is the… Read More »
I use Inno Setup to create installers. It is simple to use but has many complex capabilities. This page is just general information and links to important information. Links Inno Setup main site page – Inno Setup (jrsoftware.org) Main help file – Inno Setup Help (jrsoftware.org) Inno Setup Preprocessor (ISPP) help file – Inno Setup Preprocessor Help (jrsoftware.org)… Read More »
Inno Setup allows you to send logging information to a file during install/uninstall operations. You must specify the log option and destination file on the command line. Example Installation The InitializeSetup() function is called shortly after the installer/uninstaller starts. It runs before the user has been prompted for a target folder so {app} is undefined here. In fact,… Read More »
I needed to search an entire database to find 64-bit integer data types were being used to make sure I was handling them correctly. I needed to create a query to find all the columns in the database that are SQL bigint type. I found a and modified it to get the location information I needed. Other Uses
When adding shell package to the SoftPro Select client GUI application, you must do a two step process. First is to pass your package to a Select command line tool that puts package entries in the registry. Second is to start the Select application with a command line argument that forces it to merge all the shell package… Read More »
SoftPro Select has the option to create a development environment using non-production registry entries for new code. This registry key and its children can be deleted and recreated as needed. If development efforts have made a mess out of registry by not uninstalling packages correctly or polluting registry with crap, you can use the procedure below to delete… Read More »
In order to create a self-contained web page that has no external links, it is easy to place all JavaScript and CSS elements in the page. However, adding an image is not straightforward. This procedure will enable you to convert an image to Base64 and embed the image in the page source. We will assume you are using… Read More »
It can be very difficult to get debug information when developing Python scripts in Select – especially developing Automation Code Snippets. This technique provides a welcome solution by writing error/debug information to the system Event Log. Be aware the developer MUST REMOVE the Event Log writer before releasing the code to production. Setup Add the following function to… Read More »
HTML allows you to create links to topics within a web page. Normally you would do this by defining a target location with the ID of a regular HTML anchor, image, or paragraph. To create a clickable link to allow the user to go to one of these targets, you would use an anchor tag and put a… Read More »