When you created the Zip file, did you have it save the relative path along with the files?
Also, did you see the new thread I posted about this? Mike Stewart also sees this very same behaviour in the full version of IS.
>I created a self extracting reports.exe file and moved my 400 .frx and .frt files to it.
>In ISE, under "Customize the setup appearance/Dialogs/Program File" I added the
>line
>
>[INSTALLDIR]\reports.exe
>
>However, my reports are extracted to wrong directory !
>ISE runs this command in such way that
>default directory is the directory where setup.exe was run.
>How to use your suggestion so that installation can be done without manually
>selecting intallation directory twice?
>
>Also, during installation ISE allows to disable this extraction
>by unchecking [X] Launch program item. If user unchecks it, my post-setup exe
>will not run. How to make post-setup exe to run always ?
>
>Putting No to launch program item field completely disables this program run.
>After setting launch program to Yes again, launch program is enabled.
>however, if setup.exe is run, the
>launch program checkbox in now unselected by default!
>The only way to making it
>selected by default again is to re-create the whole setup from empty file. Is this next IES bug ?
>
>>You could provide these files in a self-extraction EXE. Then you could either provide that EXE separately for the end-user to extract. Another idea is to create a ZIP file and a post-setup executable to run. Have the Post-Setup executable use DynaZip or some other 3rd party unzip utility to unzip the file to where you need it.
>>
>>>I will not buy full Installshield even if it works.
>>>So I consider this question unnessecary.
>>>However, I need to make a setup disks from those 488 files. The number of
>>>files to distribute will change slightly, but frequently from distribution to distribution.
>>>How I can create a setup ?
>>>
>>>>OK, I can duplicate what you are observing. You do get a decaying performance curve as more files are added to a file folder. I even tried adding 50 files at a time to the same folder. The performance decline was the same regardless of how I tried to copy the files there. Post a new thread to those using the full version if InstallShield and ask if they see this same degradation in performance.
Mark McCasland
Midlothian, TX USA