Running Your Installation

InstallShield 2018 » InstallScript Project Tutorial

To run your installation from within InstallShield, click the Run toolbar button or press CTRL+F5.

The installation displays the dialogs that you specified in the Installation Interview Page of the Project Assistant. The values you entered in the Project Assistant are displayed to the end user in the appropriate dialogs. For example, at run time, the default value of TARGETDIR that you specified in the Project Assistant appears in the Choose Destination Location dialog. If the end user browses for a different destination directory, TARGETDIR stores the new value.

After the installation is complete, you can browse for the directory and find the files installed by your setup program. If the installation was successful, you will see the tutorial files installed.

Maintenance Mode

When a user runs an installation a second (or later) time for a product installed on their system, the installation runs in maintenance mode. Maintenance mode allows the user to modify feature selections from the first-time installation, repair the features already installed, or remove the entire program.

Uninstalling the Program

To uninstall the program, click the Run button (or press CTRL+F5), and select Remove from the Setup Maintenance dialog. This is the same behavior a user sees when selecting your application in Add or Remove Programs.

Now that you have created a basic installation project, click the Installation Designer tab (near the top of the window) to expand and fine-tune your installation as illustrated in the next step of the tutorial.

Running Your Installation

InstallShield 2018 Help Library

January 2018