Platform Suites Dialog Box

InstallShield 2024

Project: This information applies to the following project types:

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InstallScript

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InstallScript Object

The Platform Suites dialog box lets you specify the platform suites with which the selected component is associated. To access this dialog box, click the ellipsis button (...) in the Platform Suite(s) setting for a component in the Components view or the Setup Design view.

Platform Suites Dialog Box Settings

Setting	Description
Install without performing platform suite verification on the target system	The installation of the component’s files does not depend on the target system’s suite.
Install when the target system has one or more of the specified platform suite(s)	The installation installs the component’s files only if at least one of the selected suites exists on the target system. If you select this option, select the check boxes of the appropriate platform suites.
Install only when the target system has all the specified platform suite(s)	The installation installs the component’s files only if all of the selected suites exist on the target system. If you select this option, select the check boxes of the appropriate platform suites.
Show all platform suites	To see all of the available suites, select this check box. The full list are those that can be specified in the Windows API’s OSVERSIONINFOEX data structure (as documented on MSDN). To see only the most common suites, clear this check box.