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The Product Interface

Using WiseScripts in a Windows Installer
Installation
WiseScript Editor Reference
To open an existing script, select Edit Existing WiseScript from the button menu.
You can begin to add or edit script actions. For information on adding script actions, see
Adding an Action to a Script
About WiseScript Actions
See also:
About Script Editor on page 21
WiseScript Editor has the following views:
Project Settings
The Project Settings view contains several pages that provide information that is
required by certain script actions.
See About the Project Settings View
Script Editor
Script Editor provides a powerful and easy-to-use scripting environment based on
the WiseScript™ scripting language.
See About Script Editor
Script Editor lets you create powerful .EXEs to use as custom actions in a Windows
Installer installation.
To navigate between views, click the navigation tabs at the lower left of the main
window.
Windows Installer Editor compiles installations into Windows Installer (.MSI) format.
Therefore, it can provide only those capabilities that are provided by the Windows
Installer SDK environment. WiseScript Editor provides an additional authoring
environment that has a larger selection of more versatile script actions than those
provided by Windows Installer products.
You can use WiseScript-based .EXEs in the same way that you use functions in .DLLs.
You write the main installation in a Windows Installer product, but when you need to
perform an advanced function, you can create a WiseScript .EXE and call it with a
custom action in the Windows Installer installation.
Creating a WiseScript .EXE has some advantages over writing a custom program to
create an .EXE:
WiseScript Editor uses predefined, easy-to-use script actions to accomplish common
installation tasks.
You can pass Windows Installer properties in and out of the WiseScript .EXE.
See Get Windows Installer Property
on page 115.
You can evaluate Windows Installer conditions within a WiseScript .EXE.
on page 25. For a description of each script action, see
on page 39.
on page 16.
on page 21.
on page 89 and
Introduction
Set Windows Installer Property
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