> I have looked at few varieties for installing stuff.. some > free to expensive > ones. They also have evaluation packages for 30days. which i > don't have time > to download... considering it is 80mb apprx.. etc..
I've taken a look at a lot of these, and found that most were not suitable for Director stuff. Most were designed for packaging C (and derivatives), VB or Java apps. I have built my own installer in Director that installs QT, Acrobat, a browser, and the Director application itself. > The question would be.. what installation software is best > suited for things > like. > Showing full path showing whilst it's installing/copying to > the specifed > folder BuddyAPI has a baCopyProgress Xtra available for free at the site: www.mods.com.au > Customised message boxes for the Program group, target directory, > No windows explorer window showing the icons, which pops up > at the end of > the installation Again buddyAPI can do a lot of this. > Uninstall... > When on uninstall. If the program is active/running. It > should force the > software to close prior to uninstalling.. Guess what? BuddyAPI. > 1) Within director, I need director to recognize whether an > installation > have occurred or not. How do I do this? When installing a Director app, I create an ini file (using BuddyAPI) and store it in the prefs folder on Mac, and the system folder on Win. When my installer app starts up, it checks for the ini file (which contains the path to the app) and shows an uninstall button if it finds it, or an install button if it doesn't. > 2) Our client also wants older versions of quicktime to be > deleted prior to > installing the ones the are included in the CD. Can this be > done? QT installs over the top of previous installations (as someone else mentioned, above ver. 3). Personally, I would not be happy if an application deleted another application from my system - I might have a good reason for having two versions of the same app on my system. The roll your own installer I created is by no means perfect, and isn't as "clean" as a WISE installer or whatever, but was much easier to build, debug and understand than a third party installer app. HTH, Ben ********************************************************************** This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain privileged information or confidential information or both. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it and notify the sender. ********************************************************************** [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
