--- Kee Nethery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hello List! > > > >Distributing my project to Windows, can someone > tell me what the usual > >protocol is for installing an app on a Windows > machine? It seems that the > >mac's simple "drag it to where you want it" may not > suffice. Does someone > >have an installation script they might be willing > to share? > > [snip] > > Again, I use Mac OS X and am not a windows expert > but just dropping > it onto the hard drive seemed to be enough. > > Kee Nethery
Hi Bob, Hi Kee. One of our current products (not written in RunRev, but another language) is deployed the same way: copy the folder onto the hard drive. The only tricky bit is that Windows thinks that files from a cd are locked, thus you can't write to any datafiles that are copied from the cd. Of course you can make a 'firstrun' batch file that will do an attrib -r *.* in the appropriate directories. Apart from that, I've noticed that our Windows users find it quite disconcerting at first. They're used to flashy installers that put things in places they don't even want to know exist. So for the more conservative of users, an install script that merely copies the file to the hard drive goes a long way towards putting them at ease -- however silly that may sound. Just my 2 eurocents, Jan Schenkel. "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (De Rochefoucald) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
