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I am working on the installer for my game, but have come across a few problems. One being that I've never made an installer before, but thats not a big problem. Its an MSI project right now. Needs to support Vista Parental Settings and Validation. I think I need a bootstrapping program to make sure users has correct version of .MSI, I really don't know how to do that. The installer needs a unique interface this includes the border so no windows border, and skinning. I can do this just fine in a Win32/MFC app, but the programs I have been looking at I'm finding it hard to know where to even begin trying to skin them. (Wix and InstallShield) with Installshield they have a bootstrap setup.exe provided for you which is nice, but I can't seem to be able to create a InstallScript MSI project that will let me use my own custom action. When I create a Basic MSI with InstallShield it has a different configuration that allows me to put them in. I also couldn't find the sequencing for the InstallScript application, but I believe that because the script might be handling that not too sure only been using it for 3 days now. I just need to learn a lot about them quickly so that its useful in the time frame. My heart isn't set on any installer at the moment, so if you have a suggestion for one to use, or an alternative I am open for suggestions.
