Sounds like this is a common need amongst developers. Can someone at Palm Dev
Services write and publish an InstallShield script for this and have it
available to us?
"Elia J. Freedman" wrote:
> Wise, I heard, causes some problems (?) The InstallShield is neat but I
> have just started playing with it. The biggest problem is time - write a
> script that works with InstallShield to do this stuff...
>
> Elia
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fawcett, Mitch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 1999 10:42 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: Installing software
>
> I thought there were already plenty of 3rd party installation managers out
> there. InstallShield and Wise come to mind. I'm not there yet, but I was
> planning to use one of those if and when I develop a viable app. If you
> want totally, or nearly totally, no-brainer installations, I don't think a
> simple script is going to do it. At least not in the Windows world.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Elia J. Freedman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 1999 12:17 PM
> > To: FORUM
> > Subject: Installing software
> >
> > What are people using to install Palm software? I don't have conduits
> > yet,
> > but I would like a little script for Windows that sets up the application
> > for installation by running the Install App and placing the application in
> > it, creates a shortcut on the Start menu and opens that folder, and maybe
> > forces the user to agree to the EULA. Since I use Acrobat for the manual,
> > an additional need would be to have the installer search for the Reader on
> > the desktop and instruct the user where to get it if it is not there. Of
> > course, the entire file would need to be zipped so it can easily be
> > downloaded.
> >
> > Any ideas? Anyone willing to develop it (I could talk money). I don't
> > have
> > the Windows programming skills to do this. This is also a need for Mac,
> > but
> > I am more concerned about Windows first.
> >
> > Elia
> >
