Distributing an Object

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The major advantage of objects is the fact that anyone creating an InstallShield installation can include your object in their installation with a minimal amount of work, as long as your object is installed and registered on their machine. The easiest way to register an object is to use the InstallShield Object Installer. This object enables you to package the object that you would like to distribute, and it will register that object on the target machine, if InstallShield X or later, InstallShield DevStudio, or InstallShield Professional 6.1 or later is present.

TASK

To add the InstallShield Object Installer to your installation:

Open the Objects view. The InstallShield Objects/Merge Modules pane lists all of the available objects.

In the Features pane, select the feature to which you want to add the InstallShield Object Installer.

Right-click InstallShield Object Installer and click Add to selected feature.

An associated wizard appears to guide you through the customization process.

NOTE

The object that you would like to distribute must be present in your InstallShield Object Gallery. If it is not present, you need to register that object by right-clicking an object and clicking Register new object.