1mb isn't that big a deal, once you add a 80 page manual and all the other
junk that ends up in these archives. I downloaded Express also but ran into
problems right away because it looks for a .exe to install and, well, there
isn't one for the PalmPilot. So I figured I had to do something different -
like have it run a script or something - but now I am out of my league. Is
all that stuff in the CDK? Maybe I will play around with it.
Elia
-----Original Message-----
From: Ion Popescu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 1999 3:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installing software
---Steve Sabram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
There is one - See CDK 3.0 CD. A sample InstallShield
project and all instructions are given in it.
But I still had trouble. As Elia said, I also didn't
have time to learn Install Shield Professional scripting language. The
example code/script given in CDK 3.0 CD is for Install Shield 5.1.
Ideally it should have worked for Install Shield 5.5 (latest). But
the sample Install Shield project gave me some wierd errors
on 5.5. It complained about missing "Language Independent Intel 32
files". So I used Install Shield express (the cheap alternative). It
doesn't require any script & doesn't support any.
Then I made a windows program "setup.exe" which takes
prc file names as arguments and calls PltInstallFile()
on each (and also popsup a "Select User" dialog") just
like the InstallTool. This program is then invoked
from InstallShield express. In my case I was installing PRC files
only. This method may or may not work for conduits.
But InstallShield is really inefficient for small
installations. It may be becuase I am using the
"express" version. But it made a 1MB compressed
self-extracting executable. All the files I have
combined (PRC, user guides, etc) is only 500K
uncompressed. So more than half of the executable
is used by InstallShield itself.
==
Ion Popescu
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