ASU FILE VALIDATOR

Encountering unexplained errors from the Install Shield routine which installs your AutoPackaged project from your CD ROM? This may be the tool you need to pinpoint the problem.

When you AutoPackage your application, a control file is created (with an .ASU extension) which instructs the Install Shield routine as to which files need to be installed.

If your ASU file contains references to files which can't be found on your installation CD ROM, the installer will fail, reporting one of various errors.

Does your ASU file contain invalid references? This utility will tell you.

Here are two reasons I have seen for the ASU to contain invalid references:

• A media file with a name containing more than 64 characters was used in ToolBook but a CD ROM will not allow file names containing more than 64 characters, resulting in the file name being truncated on the CD ROM, however the ASU file was looking for the full file name.

• All clips in your book will have their file references written into the ASU file even if they are never used in the book. Clips which are no longer being used, where the actual file no longer exists on your system will result in the ASU file referencing clip files which do not exist on the CD ROM.

DOWNLOAD ASUVALIDATOR.ZIP

• This download contains one .TBK file.

• You can examine how it works, by looking at all the OpenScript code. You may find it useful to use the Tools menu to access the Dump Scripts option in order to see all the code I wrote.

• Click here to initiate a download of this 9K ToolBook 8.5/8.6 file