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Serge · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:46 pm Post subject:

oh ok!

serge

jules · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:58 pm Post subject:

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 8:16 pm Post subject:

There are some free third party tools to easy the task of creating scripts
for NSIS. I haven't used any of them as I usually will write my own. I
have written a complicated IDE for the NSIS language, but you need to be
familiar with the language to use it for now.

If you'd like, I can put together a wizard interface for you, in VDS of
course, if you'd like since I am very familiar with NSIS script language. If
you're interested, send me a PM. Run some of their samples to see which
interface you like and I'll write a wizard for it that can output the
necessary code in NSIS to build the installer with the NSIS compiler.

jules · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 10:03 am Post subject:

Thanks Bill.

I wouldn't want you to go to all that trouble just on my behalf. But since NSIS is free, it seems to me that such a wizard would be useful to VDS users in general. Especially if it was VDS-oriented enough to have built in options for installng the runtime and so on.

jules · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 10:51 am Post subject:

Here's a nice free IDE for NSIS: http://hmne.sourceforge.net/. It includes a wizard for building the install script.

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:27 pm Post subject:

Hi Jules,
I only offered because I'm fairly familiar with the NSIS Script syntax. Not
to mention, it's not like I have a life anyway Confused

jules · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 5:16 pm Post subject:

Thanks, Bill.

I've spent a while looking at it, and I think I now understand it about as well as I need to, but I certainly found AGInstaller and Inno Setup much quicker from first installing to creating a script that did what I want.

NSIS is certainly powerful, but you have actually got to tap in to that power to do basic things like install a DLL that is in use on reboot, or show check boxes on the final page to say if you want to show the readme or run an EXE or put shortcuts in quicklaunch (still haven't figured that out), which are a simple option in the other two.

But I plan to move over to it eventually, because it has a more modern interface and is better supported than AGInstaller (which has a problem with Japanese Windows that the developer won't respond to) and creates setups 200K slimmer than Inno.

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

this install sounds good... i'am looking for something that my users can uses to make simple plugins.... i just need a simple installer that lets you set the path and folder name to install the plugin in to and what folder to make the setup from...that is all i need ( but of course the installers i have found are not that simple for normal users)

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:12 pm Post subject:

One other note:

ShinobiSoft Setup Wizard does NOT provide uninstallation facilities
either. Sorry guys.

I'm almost finished. I'll be asking for some BETA testers in a day or two.

Adding the shortcut creation abilities added another 10k to the executable.
So we're now at about 38Kb.

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:16 pm Post subject:

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

tim6389 · Professional Member Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 790

one idea i would like to see is a command line option so i can uses vds to make the setup file....then have it complie the setup.exe from what the setup file has in it for setting..meaning

for example

complie [folder and file names inculding any sub folder] [folder name to install to] [setup name.exe]

i hope you follow what i mean

thanks