If you're looking for a good, cheap installer, look no further than NSIS. It's from the people who made Winamp. Check it out on http://winamp.com/nsdn/nsis/
Here's an extract <xtract> NSIS, which stands for "Nullsoft SuperPIMP Installation System" or "Nullsoft Scriptable Installation System" or whatever you want, is based on PIMP but is designed to be much more flexible. NSIS creates installers that are capable of installing, uninstalling, setting system settings, extracting files, etc. Pretty much anything. All with the minimum of overhead- NSIS installers don't bother throwing up a big blue gradient, they don't bother decompressing themselves three different times, telling the user to "please wait". They get to the point and get the job done. </xtract> I'm not sure if it can do what you want for the uninstallation bit. But you might be able to hack a workaround somehow. AFAIK, Quicktime automatically upgrades itself, version 3 onwards. And version 2 exists quite amicably with the newer versions. Pranav Negandhi Software Engineering Learnet India Limited, Mumbai. Phone: 91-22-56768120 http://www.learnetindia.com Does anybody remember laughter? -- Robert Plant, The Song Remains the Same. <snip> 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 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 Uninstall... When on uninstall. If the program is active/running. It should force the software to close prior to uninstalling.. Now that I'm at it.. I might as well lay some more out... :) sorry... 1) Within director, I need director to recognize whether an installation have occurred or not. How do I do this? Basically this function is for the install/uninstall feature which the client wants. 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? If so, I need some links of info.. tks <snip> [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!]
