Hello all,
I am relatively new to Flash development. I am writing a RIA for the
University of Florida and I am looking to use Flex with remoting. The problem
I am currently having is obtaining the Flash remoting components. I have
download the components package in an MSI file listed under the title
"Macromedia Flash Remoting Components for Flash 8 ActionScript 2.0." The URL
for the file is:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashremoting/flash8/flashremoting_components
_flash8.msi
When I try and install the MSI file, InstallShield fail with the following
error:
1: The InstallScript engine is missing from this machine. If available,
please run ISScript.msi, or contact you support personnel for further
assistance.
I have reproduced the error on three different machines, all Windows XP. I
have install plenty of other MSI packages on my desktop, so the InstallShield
engine is not missing. I have tried every version of InstallShield I could
find, but all of them gave the same error. Has anyone else had this problem?
Is the MSI file corrupt, or is it working fine for everyone else?
I have attempted to work around this problem by manually opening the MSI file
using the open source package WiX (
wix.sourceforget.net). This program
succeeded in extracting the files from the apparently...