[INSTALLDIR] Not Evaluated

[AdTheBad]

My InstallShield InstallScript project creates a registry key that is set to [INSTALLDIR]. This should be evaluated during installation to the path of my application but instead all I get in the registry is an unevaluated [INSTALLDIR].

Has anyone else seen this?

[dbriggs]

Isn't [INSTALLDIR] a Windows Installer Property?

Maybe you should be using the InstallScript system variable TARGETDIR instead?

Hope that helps,

David

[akaStacy]

Do you set it in the script or through IDE? In the script you should use INSTALLDIR, no []. IDE works fine with [INSTALLDIR] on my dev 8.0 project... I hope they didn't break it in 9.0.

[tw0001]

InstallScript MSI based = INSTALLDIR
InstallScript non-MSI based = TARGETDIR

Ted.

[RichAquino]

Hi,

[INSTALLDIR] is an MSI formatted string. During the installation, that string will be replaced with the value of INSTALLDIR. This will not work for InstallScript (non-MSI) projects though. You'll have to use script to do something like that.

Edit:
AdTheBad responded, and noted that <TARGETDIR> works fine. So, ignore my comment that you'll have to use script. Just use "angle bracket" notation.

Rich

[AdTheBad]

Thanks for all your help.

I had already posted this as a technical support query and had the problem confirmed, so I hadn't thought to look for something as simple as using a property from the wrong project type.

I had already tried [TARGETDIR] instead and had the same problem, but following all your comments I re-read the tutorials and found that if I use <TARGETDIR> it works fine.

Adam