PRB: Viewer Setup Error in INICM.C Line 185 or in PROGCM.C

ID: Q120808

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) 3.1
Microsoft Multimedia Viewer Publishing Toolkit, versions 2.0, 2.0a

SYMPTOMS

After creating the setup program for your Viewer title by following the instructions in the Viewer Authoring Guide (Chapter 13, "Completing the Package"), you test the setup by running SETUP.EXE. This results in the following setup error message:

Setup has encountered a problem.
Please report File='INSTALL\INICM.C', Line='185' to
Microsoft Product Support Services.

The error message may report a different file and a different line number, such as:

Please report File='INSTALL\PROGCM.C', Line='298' to
Microsoft Product Support Services.
Please report File='INSTALL\PROGCM.C', Line='468' to
Microsoft Product Support Services.

CAUSE

You must initialize the seven global variables before the setup will run correctly. Invalid values in these variables cause the error messages:

An error occurs in INICM.C on line 185 occurs when the setup script calls the function CreateIniKeyValue if the MVBFileName$ variable is set to an empty string ("").

An error occurs in PROGCM.C on line 298 occurs when the setup script calls the function CreateProgmanGroup if the ProgmanGroup$ variable is set to an empty string ("").

An error occurs in PROGCM.C on line 468 when the setup script calls the function CreateProgmanItem if the ProgmanItem$ variable is set to an empty string ("").

RESOLUTION

Fill in correct string values for all seven global variables near the top of the TITLE.MST file. For information on how to correctly fill in these values, see the "Completing the Package" chapter of the Authoring Guide, which contains a section called "Customizing TITLE.MST." Follow these instructions, and read the comments in the TITLE.MST file.

MORE INFORMATION

Do not change the name of the TITLE.MST file. If you change the name of the TITLE.MST file, you may get one of the following errors:

Setup Initialization Error
Setup cannot access required initialization file:
'<path>\TITLE.MST'."

-or-

Microsoft Test Driver (dumb shell)
Can't read the file 'title.mst'"

Additional query words: 3.10 install setup 2.00 2.00a

Keywords :
Version : WINDOWS:3.1; :2.0,2.0a
Platform : WINDOWS
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