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bludginozzie
8th January 2010 23:36 UTC

DetailsPrint output
Hi,

I am sure there is an obvious answer to this but I just can't figure it out :confused:

How do you view the DetailsPrint output when using the MUI interface?

Thanks in advance!

Anders
9th January 2010 00:49 UTC

same place as always, on the instfiles page (unless you force the show details button to be hidden)

bludginozzie
9th January 2010 01:55 UTC

Thank Anders, in hindsight I probably asked the wrong question. Let me try again;

I have an installer running but I am having problems with the JRE detection on 64bit machines. I am using this script.

JRE Dynamic Installer

The script has DetailPrint statements that will tell me why the detection isn't working but I cannot figure out where to view them. Is there a way to view them during the wizard pages? Is there a better way to debug scripts? The tutorial talks about a Log Window but my installer doesn't have a log window (at least that I know of).

Any help in how best to debug scripts would be grately appreciated.

bludginozzie
9th January 2010 06:29 UTC

I ended up using MessageBox to debug this. Probably not the right way but got the job done.

Also the problem with this plugin is that it's not 64 bit aware. I added the following to my .onInit to resolve it;


${If} ${RunningX64}
    SetRegView 64
${Else}
    SetRegView 32
${Endif}

MSG
11th January 2010 08:47 UTC


${If} ${RunningX64}
    SetRegView 64
${Else}
    SetRegView 32
${Endif}

You should only do this if you want to create registry entries for a 64 bit application. Never use 64 bit registry for a 32 bit application. (NSIS and NSIS installers are 32 bit applications.)

bludginozzie
11th January 2010 08:55 UTC

Thanks for that info. I am building a dual installer that will install a 32bit and 64bit version of the app. I was wondering how I can change the installer to a 64bit exe but I guess you have just answered that for me.

thanks again!