General purpose Win95/98/XP installation /uninstall utility. It will check available space on the chosen drive, create target directories and copy files to them and the Windows directories, create the Program group and start the target application. There is a separate version of this program for Win3.1x systems.
NOTES:
1. Copy Setup.exe to a work directory (say, C:\WORK). Then copy ALL of your application files to that work directory.
Or you click on "Edit Design" icon and browse to the Work directory.
2. Run Setup. Double-click twice on "Ssetup" logo text in the top left corner of Setup window. This opens Design form window.
3. Write README.TXT and /or LICENCE.TXT using menu Edit/ Ed.Readme/ Licence file. Those files will be readable during installation clicking the Setup [Readme/Licence] button. Add those files to Output file list. Click on menu Edit/ Edit logo to edit logo picture visible on the main window.
4. Edit SETDATA lines which are at top-right on Design form. Change it to suit your application (see sample below).
5. Quick way to build Output list (which is located bottom-right on Design form) is to Project/ Auto Make menu and the list will be made. By default all EXE, TXT and HTM files will get an Icon in the group. By default all files will be copied to the Target directory. If your application in work directory have subdirectories, you have to set Options/ Auto Make w.subdir option to include those files in [Auto Make>]. If there are files with same names in different subdirectories there might be name conflicts. In that case use menu Options/ Make ZIP w.subdir. When done, click [Save All] button.
6. You may want to distribute package in 3 forms:
7. Try your Installation by running Setup
from distribution directory c:\set_out. Try Uninstall by clicking
on Uninstall icon in target group. This testing is best done on
another computer - to be sure that all necessary files have been included
in package.
1. Output file list is stored in SETDATA.EZZ in an UNREADABLE form. It lists files and directories to be installed. Using Design form it can be created in 3 ways:
Files SETUP.EXE and SETDATA.EZZ must be listed in the output file list. Do not distribute other Setup files.
Editing of entries is done in Edit line on the bottom middle of the design form. Clicking on Available file list (on the left) or Output list (on the right) copies clicked line to edit line. Also radio-button above edit line shows what will be done with this file/ directory entry. You may click radio button to change "do what character". After editing you may put that line in Output file list by clicking [Add^] or [Replace^].
2. Apart from Target directory additional directories may also be created:
3. Compressed files support
If file extension is finished with _, it is supposed that it was compressed with 'compress -r filename' command (Microsoft COMPRESS.EXE DOS utility). Ssetup will uncompress those files (File.ex_ --> File.exe). Do not compress Readme.txt so that user can get this information before installation.
4. Multiple source media support
When making installation on diskettes, there is a size limit of each media. Before doing this option edit SETDATA line: Source_Size=value. Value is the size of diskette in kB (if this feature is not needed, set value to zero). To create source installation files for Diskette1, Diskette2, click on button [Save All] then [> Out]. Files will be created in c:\set_out directory in subdirectories Disk1, Disk2,..etc. You can copy those subdirectories to individual diskettes. Testing of installation may be done executing Setup.exe in disk1 subdirectory. Keep in mind that Setup would not split a file larger than diskette size to sevaral chunks (use compression on those files).
5. Other options set through SETDATA editor:
[main] ApplicName=Ssetup Dummy Def_path= <program files>\Dummy Def_Group=Ssetup Dummy Group Head_Text=Dummy Application, ver. 1.00 Ver=1.00 Producer=Davor Zorc Rgb_Color=r192g192b192 Ask_Overwrite=0 Run_Program=0 Ask_Licence=0 Check_DiskFree=0 Source_Size=0 SpaceNeed=155 UseRegRunOnce=0
- sample Output list (or *.LST file to import):
;----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; SSETUP- comment lines begin with ; in colon 1 ; Text on all lines must begin at column 1. ; + = copy & icon, - = copy, = = copy WinDir, ; . = no copy, ! = delete, > = run, \ = dir ; ;------------- files for Setup/ Uninstall ------------------------------ +SETUP.EXE ;copy and makes icon for SETUP (for Uninstalling) -SETDATA.EZZ ;this file is copied and updated in target directory ; ; ------------ list of files to copy/ remove -------------------------- ; !DUMMY.TMP ;delete if exist on target dir. from previous installation +README.TXT +DUMMY.EXE ;copy & make icon >DUMMY.EXE ;run this after installation (must also be after +) -DUMMY.RES ;copy only =DUMMY.INI ;copy to Windows directory .DUMMY.TMP ;for uninstall-file generated later (by application) -DOC\FILE_ID.DIZ ;put in sub-directory of target directory ; -\DATA\PIPI\F.DAT ;copy to directory on target drive ~DUMY.DLL ; copy to Windows \SYSTEM directory ; ;------------- make Directories ---------------------------------------------- ; \.DOC ;create extra sub-directory in Target directory \\DATA\PIPI ;create absolute directory on Target drive ;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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