tmxk
12th December 2008 19:32 UTC

SendMessage does not work in my installer
Hi all,

In my installer, I call another installshield which is to add an environment variable for the current user and it takes effect only when system reboot.
In order to avoide system rebooting, I use function
SendMessage ${HWND_BROADCAST} ${WM_WININICHANGE} 0 "STR:Environment" /TIMEOUT=5000
after the installshield, then I read the environment variable but nothing returned. However the environment variable is set in DOS command shell.

Can anybody help? Thanks in advance.

TMXK

kichik
12th December 2008 19:43 UTC

That message only works for Explorer. The installer doesn't update its environment variables block when it gets that message. You'll have to manually read that variable from somewhere or execute your installer again from Explorer.

tmxk
15th December 2008 14:03 UTC

Thank you very much for your quick replay.