InstallScript Custom Actions
InstallShield 2020
Project:This information applies to the following project types:
In order to use your InstallScript functions in a Windows Installer installation, you first need to create a custom action that calls your script. The easiest way to create a custom action is to use the Custom Action Wizard.
The primary panels of this wizard are:
When you complete the wizard, a custom action of type 65536 is created. This custom action type is not defined in the Windows Installer Help Library. Because InstallScript is not natively supported by Windows Installer, InstallShield created action type 65536.
Project:You should not use an InstallScript custom action in the User Interface sequence of an InstallScript MSI project. You can use the event-driven script to provide the user interface in an InstallScript MSI project.