Exercise 15.1 Creating Source Paths

Add the following user-defined source path and enable the following default source paths.

  1. OFFICE_SOURCE (user-defined): Point this source path to the following directory.

    <InstallAnywhere root>/OfficeSuiteSourceFiles

  2. IA_PROJECT_DIR (predefined): This will point to the directory in which your project file resides.

Managing Resources in the InstallAnywhere Project File

While not recommended as a best practice per se, it is possible to manage resources directly from the project file itself.

InstallAnywhere versions after InstallAnywhere 5.0 utilize a new XML project file format (previous versions of the software utilize a binary format based on a Java class file).

As the .xml_iap file is essentially a plain-text ...

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