Re: Announcing The Arrival of Popup Gorilla
I've been looking to do something similar to NSIS (Nullsoft SuperPIMP
Installation System) which
throws the installer, script, and compressed files (zlib or bzip2) into one
executable.
Unfortunately, one needs to learn the scripting language in order to use it.
NSIS claims
"Wizards slow you down," but I disagree, I think wizards speed up the process of
making the
install script. When I say "easy to use" and "wizard based" I means it! I
figured I could have a
WinZip-like interface, which groups all files into one file, compresses it,
throws a scipt on
the front and names it install.dat. The installer would just be a generic
executable, which
looks for an install.dat file, processes the script and extracts the files.
Support for the
Registry and Environtment variables would surely come in time. Right now, I'm
just looking for a
quick way to package all my files so people don't complain "I don't know how to
use WinZip"
(I've gotten about 4 emails on this already, from my friends who want to use my
software.)
~Greg
g.haberek at comcast.net
PS: Euman, I was considering using some of your API-based code write my
installer, since
Win32Lib has way too much overhead. (I know, I know, the translator eliminates
all excess code,
but I don't need to have Win32Lib indexing all my stuff in this project) I may
even need to
write the installer in C in order to make it smaller. (I haven't done that in
over 4 years!)
----- Original Message -----
From: <euman at bellsouth.net>
To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: Announcing The Arrival of Popup Gorilla
Hey Greg,
> My next project is an easy to use, wizard-based installer.
I wish you much luck and if I can be of assitance, let me know.
Ive been working on an installer for 'almost' a couple years now.
(No Win32lib, little Euphoria and lots and lots of Win32 API)
Pitfalls:
Cross-Windows Environment implementation
Cross-Windows Registry fondling (Security issues)
Cross-Windows Graphics Utilization
Encapsilating files, what compression (will function) Cross-Windows
Security for Software Company (updates from Web, email passkeys
based on user account registration before they D/L a on the fly passkey
version (each D/L'er will need a private key emailed to them to extract.))
No.1 issue, keep it small (-70k) and very fast......... 
etc...etc...etc
I thought it would be easy at first heh, was I ever wrong....
I am just about ready to release an installer that will make INNO sit-up
and take notice...(Source code included)
Perhaps after Rob has the final release of Euphoria 2.4
(Ive said something similar before, so dont hold me to it.)
Euman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Haberek" <g.haberek at comcast.net>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 11:21 PM
Subject: Announcing The Arrival of Popup Gorilla
> ok everybody, 'Popup Gorilla' is done! (for now) Please visit
> www.popupgorilla.cjb.net to
> download version 0.1! It works great! thanks to everybody for their help with
> finding sites
with
> popups. email me any bugs (if you can find em!) I've also included an update
> to PatRat's
systray
> library, so it will support setHandler() rather than onXXX(), which caused me
> hours of
> frustration until I figured it out.
>
>
> ~Greg
> g.haberek at comcast.net
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