Cannot start Universal IDE after installation of SAB

[Eugene Kramer]

Hi there,

I have ISU 10.5 SPK1 installed on a W2k box. After installation of the Stand Alone Builder, I cannot start IDE any more. A small window is shown on the screen for a very short period of time, and the disappears.

Are they not compatible?

I wanted to have both on the same machine after my installers built with sab.exe failed to find class FrameBegin whereas installers built from the same sources using IDE find that class w/o any problems.

Any help would be really appreciated.

I tried to compare two setup.jar files - in good and bad installers. An apparent difference is in assembly.dat file. Turned out, it is a pkzip file. The one with from a good build has FrameBegin.class, the one from bad - does not. This results in the installer not reacting to any buttons (Next, Cancel to be specific).

Putting assembly.dat into the installer built with sab.exe and jarring it up again, fixes the problem.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Eugene.

[Judah.Greenblat]

I had the same problem.
I ended up having to completely uninstall and re-install InstallShield 10.5
from the original CD, and then re-apply SP2.

It seems that SAB and full InstallShield Universal are incompatible on Windows -
you simply cannot install both on the same machine.

One thing you might try: install SAB on another Windows machine,
and then copy the \Program Files\Install Shield\Universal directory back to your original windows machine, but with a different name.
I haven't tried this yet, mostly because I run SAB on Unix, not Windows.

[Eugene Kramer]

Got off the phone with support folks. They recommended to just install SAB into a different directory as some of the files overlap between ISU full and SAB. I installed full into its default path: C:\Program Files\InstallShield 10.5, which creates Universal in C:\Program Files\InstallShield 10.5\Universal Installer, and SAB into C:\Program Files\InstallShield 10.5\SAB.

Now both things work on the same box.

Well, I still have a problem that I am investigating, but it is not related to incompatibility of IDE and SAB on the same box.

Eugene