I am now very confused. I have been told by someone on Lazarus Forums that to
write an installer, I would need to use Resources. I have done some research
into resources, and got this:Resource (Windows)From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
In Microsoft Windows, resources are read-only data embedded in EXE, DLL, CPL or
(beginning with Windows Vista) MUI files.
The Windows API provides for easy access to all applications' resources.
[edit]TypesEach resource has a type and a name, both being either numeric
identifiers or strings.
Windows has a set of predefined resource types:
Cursor and animated cursorIconBitmapDialog box templateFontHTML documentString
and message templateVersion
data---------------------------------------------------------
So it seems that I cannot store a FILE in a resource.
All I wish to do is make a simple installer that installs an .exe onto the
user's hard disk.
Thank you for the link, Mattias. It seems the page has been updated since I
last saw it.
This is the code for my installer so far:procedure
TMainForm.InstallButtonClick(Sender:
TObject);beginStatusMemo.Append('Attempting to retrive file...');CRes :=
LazarusResources.Find('test');StatusMemo.Append('test resource found.');{So
what do I do here to get the .exe stored in the resource(Compiled with Lazres)
and place it on the users hard disk?}...
Do I have some mislead conception of a 'resource'?What comes next in the
code?Thanks in advance,- JoshPS. Sorry for the repeated posts, I'm having time
lag and I'm posting from a crappy device
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