Have you already created a .xpi file for the fonts? The native windows installer does not actually do the installation of files, but rather it gathers information from the user and system, then passes the .xpi files needing to be installed to the xpinstall engine.

I'm not sure how much you know about how the entire process works. Let me know if you need more help on this.

Rob Brandt wrote:

OK, I've dived in to making my own installer using the stubs. I've focused on the windows version since it's much better commented than the Mac version. I have a mostly working installer.

There's a couple of things I don't see how to do. It would be nice if I could see and example of how this works.

1) Install fonts in windows. I see from the config.ini that is used in the Netscape installer that the stub is aware of where the fonts folder is, in PERSONAL_FONTS. But how to get them installed, registered, efficiently?

2) Windows versions: My app has some minor differences between Windows 95/98/Me and NT/200/XP. It would be really nice if config.ini could sense which version it was on, and select the correct package.

TIA

Rob





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