User manual SYMANTEC WISESCRIPT EDITOR 8.0 REFERENCE FOR WISE PACKAGE STUDIO V1.0

[. . . ] WiseScript Editor Reference WiseScript Editor The software described in this book is furnished under a license agreement and may be used only in accordance with the terms of the agreement. Documentation version 7. 0 SP2 in Wise Installation Express and 8. 0 in Wise Package Studio Legal Notice Copyright © 2009 Symantec Corporation. Symantec, the Symantec Logo, and Altiris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U. S. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. [. . . ] UTC File Date/Time Modified Same as File Date/Time Modified above except in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) format. Coordinated Universal Time is an international time standard, in which all time zones are computed relative to UTC. Example: in the United States, Central Standard Time (CST) is six hours earlier than UTC time-- 10:00 UTC is 4:00 CST. Is OS 64 Bit The value of the variable you specified above is set to 1 if the destination computer is running a 64-bit operating system, and 0 if not. WiseScript Editor Reference 88 WiseScript Actions Pathname Use this field only for operations that retrieve information on files or directories. Specify the full path of the file or directory to retrieve information from. You can use variables (example: %MAINDIR%\Readme. txt). You also can enter a hardcoded path (example: C:\Program Files\File. exe) but it is not recommended. The sample script Autoplay. wse uses this action. For details on sample scripts, see ScriptHelp. htm in the Samples subdirectory of this product's installation directory. Get Temporary Filename This action generates a unique, temporary file name and stores it in a variable. Use the temporary name when you need to install a file to the Windows Temp directory (%TEMP%). Files that you create using this file name are deleted when the installation finishes. Example: Use this to install a . DLL that is called during installation, and is then no longer needed. To complete the dialog box Variable Specify a variable in which to store the temporary file name. To refer to this file, prefix it with the %TEMP% variable extension. Example: If the variable is %HELPFILE%, the full path of the file would be %TEMP%\%HELPFILE%. Get Windows Installer Property This action gets the value of a Windows Installer property in the currently running Windows Installer installation and puts it into a WiseScript variable. Use this action only in WiseScripts that are called from a Windows Installer installation. To complete the dialog box Dest. Variable Select or enter a variable to store the value of a Windows Installer property. Property Name Enter the name of the Windows Installer property in the currently running Windows Installer installation. See also: Set Windows Installer Property on page 115 Evaluate Windows Installer Condition on page 76 Halt Compilation This action immediately stops compilation of the script. It must be placed between Compiler Variable If and Compiler Variable End statements or the script will never compile. Use this to ensure that conditions are met before compiling. WiseScript Editor Reference 89 WiseScript Actions To complete the dialog box Message Text Enter a message to display to the user if the compile is stopped. Example: You develop a script that uses runtime files. On your own computer, you have the correct runtime files to pull into the installation. [. . . ] Additional compiler variables require additional /d switches. Do not put a space between the /d and the compiler variable name. Defines compiler variables from a text file for this run only. The format for the text file is _VAR_=value, with one entry per line. [. . . ]