Of course. You can reproduce this problem easily:
1. Create a self extracting exe file.
2. Specify it as launch program
3. After running the setup, files are extracted to the directory from where
you run the seup.exe !
Is this ISE bug ?
Yes, I read mike reply. I don't expect that they change something.
In spring I described a bug that clicking a print button in print preview
toolbar in
REPORT NOWAIT FORM myform PREVIEW SUMMARY
command prints detail lines, but this bug is still in VFP 7.
>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.
Andrus