General Options - Advanced Dialog Box

InstallShield 2024

The General Options - Advanced dialog box opens when you click the Advanced button on the General Options panel of the Release Wizard. This dialog box allows you to specify a custom location for the built files, (in installation projects only) the space that is reserved in the disk images folders, whether the installation performs MD5 checking, and (in object projects only) how InstallShield handles subobjects contained in the object project during the build of the object.

Panel Options

Build the media to the custom folder location

If unchecked, the release’s Disk Images, Log Files, and Report Files folders are created in the default location:

<project folder>\Media\<release name>

Check this box to specify another location by typing in the combo box, selecting and completing one of the list items, which are defined relative to path variables, or clicking the browse button and selecting a folder.

Reserved Space

Project:This option is available in installation projects. If you are building an object project, this setting is not displayed.

Disabled if the current release’s media type produces a single disk image—which is true for Network Image. Lets you reserve (leave empty) specified amounts of space in particular disk image folders. Select a disk image folder number in the Disk list box (for example, a value of 1 specifies disk image folder Disk1) and enter the space (in kilobytes) to be reserved in that folder in the Reserved Space edit box.

Verify MD5 signature

Project:This option is available in installation projects. If you are building an object project, this setting is not displayed.

If this check box is checked, the setup compares each installed file’s MD5 hash value to the value stored in the .cab file. This setting is stored in the CheckMD5 key of the [Startup] section in the Setup.ini file.

Tip:MD5 checking can detect corrupted files, which is useful during Internet setups; not doing MD5 checking can make file transfer proceed faster.

Object Inclusion - Embedded

Project:This option is available in object projects.

If the object project includes any subobjects, the release includes those subobjects themselves rather than references to the subobjects. A release built with this option can be used by InstallShield users who do not have the subobjects registered on their systems.

Object Inclusion - Reference

Project:This option is available in object projects.

If the object project includes any subobjects, the release includes references to those subobjects rather than the subobjects themselves. A release built with this option cannot be used by InstallShield users who do not have the subobjects registered on their systems.