Questions tagged [wise]

Wise from Wise Solutions, Inc. was a popular installation package creation tool for Windows. The company has been acquired by Symantec Corporation in 2007 and it's support has been discontinued in 2011.

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WiseScript - Escape percent sign

I need wanted to use a % as an argument for a command I am running in WiseScript Wise Package Studio. using a double percent such as %% doesn't seem to work. I verified this command works great from the command prompt: WMIC PRODUCT WHERE "Name LIKE…
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Wise Installer, dialog on uninstall?

With wise installer, how can I make the 'Remove' action display a dialog? I would like to have some options displayed to the user. The modify seems to do this, but my remove action just causes the uninstall with no options.
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Need to not overwrite a file with Wise Installer

I create the installer for my application with Wise Installation Express 7.0. In my installation there is a file that holds user names and passwords. It needs to be installed/uninstalled when the application is installed or uninstalled. When the…
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How to find distance between large number of coordinates in Python?

I have 20,000 coordinates (which consist of latitude and longitude), and I need to calculate the distance between each of these 20,000 coordinates (so the result will be a table of 20000 * 20000 cells, and each cell shows the distance between each…
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Wise Installer, Extended Chars

I am trying to support a legacy application that uses Wise Installer. The installer needs to run in some foreign countries, eg, Bulgaria. Windows 10 System is properly setup for the Bulgarian Locale. Using the Wise Wizard Dialog users are allowed to…
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I want to concat element-wise two numpy integer arrays

A = [[1 2], [ 3 4]] (order is 2x2) B = [[5 6], [ 7 8]] (order is 2x2) C = [[1 5 2 6], [3 7 4 8]] (order is 2x4) Above is a specific example. Generally, I have two integer matrices of 120x6 and after concatenation, I need a 120x12 single matrix but…
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Will wise owl obfuscate wpf projects properly?

We are moving from windows forms to wpf for the next version of the product I work on. We are using wise owl to do our obfuscation and I am wondering if anyone has had experience with this.
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How can I change source folders en masse in Wise Installation Studio?

I've got an existing Wise .wsi script that I would like to convert to using relative paths, but the problem is that it includes about 330 files and the only way I've found to fix the paths are to go into each file's Details and adjust the path…
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Append multiple excel files sheet by sheet & column by column in python

Please suggest how to append multiple excel files sheet by sheet & column by column, wherein all files have exactly same sheet & column names in python3. **Input** **Output** File name: abc.xlsx …
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Trying to understand what stand behinde Wisescript

I have two questions regarding to Wisescript, (For those who don't familiar with Wisescirpt, it let you create installers, just like MSI) Inside Wisescirpt Reference guide, there is a saying: "Because the WiseScript engine is written in C++, when…
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Windows Installer Cannot Execute Custom Step

We have a legacy WISE installer that we cannot get to run to completion. We keep experiencing an issue where the installer hangs when trying to execute a specific Custom Action that we use to configure the Databases. The custom action is a VB6…
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Wise Installation Studio: What is WiseCustomCall

I am upgrading an old Wise for Windows installation to a newer version of Wise Installation Studio, and the WiseCustomCall resource is now marked as . The .wsi compiles into a .msi without issue, but then fails during runtime, not…
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Add\Modify a file in WindowsInstallerEditor (WISE)

How can I modify an existing file in Windows Installer Editor. When I tried to add it through FeatureDetails -->Files --> AddFile, it is still taking the old file with less size. Should I remove the existing from the installer before adding. If so,…
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How to force Windows Installer to replace a shortcut with a renamed one?

Recently, we added a feature to our installer that required a couple of the desktop shortcuts to be renamed slightly (the version number was added to the name). I'm having problems getting the installer to replace the old shortcuts with the new…
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Convert EXEs written in WISE to WIX

In our organization we were using WISE installers for creating the MSI and EXEs. Now for implementing the Contineous build process we are moving from WISE to Wix. We were able to convert all the MSIs in Wise to WIX using dark.exe. But we couldn't…
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