How do you build your setups ???
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With serious I mean to expect as little problems as possible with deployment, have your package built quickly, have extensive support and knowledge base on the internet, etc... I agree with you - Install Shield sucks. When I was solving the "1911 : Unable to register typelib" problem (know to every author who created at least two installations for two different versions of VB app that had compatibility break...requires cleaning registry by hand, nedless to say - very annoying!) I did a little analysis of how the stupid software works. When you flag COM component for "extract at build" the damn thing does it by registering COM component on your machine. At least it should ask before doing it or remember, how to revert to the old state afterwards...Oh, well...Nedless to say, all 3rd party "weird licencing techniques" do not work with it. Tomaz
I do not agree with you. There really a lot of other installers which provide good support. I am one from gInstall's staff and we offer 7 days a week priority support including analysis of your installer project files and so on. You will get support within 1 day even on Sundays. We also feature website forums and Knowledge base online. I don't think that you can expect 7 days a week support from Wise or InstallShield. Regarding InstallShield: I am wondering how and why people use it. This is the most badly written installer ever. The only fact that it decompresses from single-file selfextracting archive installation files twice says a lot! And it adds about 1.2MB installer footprint to the setup package... Then why to use compression if some apps using InstallShield will anyway double their size. Ovanes.
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Hi! I am Ovanes. One from gInstall's staff. If you have any additional questions, it would be great to answer them here in this forum. Regards, Ovanes
Hi Ovanes, cool to have you here :cool:. First of all, I like your program, it's very handy and it explains itself, good GUI! What I saw is that you have a kind of distributing-office in Germany, when I'm not wrong (Munich??).. Can you give me please an address (EMail) or something to contact them, coz I want to buy your GhostInstall.... Another Question: Can I add some features (like HTML) to my medium (CD-Rom) when I build it? e.g.: Here are my steps with InstallShield (X| X| ): 1. Build my language-specific Setup 2. Build my medium (like CD-Rom) 3. Add to the CD-Rom my HTML files (Autorun, HelpFiles and stuff...) 4. Finish! (And doing this, it cost's me nearly 2 weeks...) You can also send me a private Mail for contacting your office... P.S.: Sorry Chris, did not want to post some Code Related Toppics here ;)
Olli I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.....
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Hi Ovanes, cool to have you here :cool:. First of all, I like your program, it's very handy and it explains itself, good GUI! What I saw is that you have a kind of distributing-office in Germany, when I'm not wrong (Munich??).. Can you give me please an address (EMail) or something to contact them, coz I want to buy your GhostInstall.... Another Question: Can I add some features (like HTML) to my medium (CD-Rom) when I build it? e.g.: Here are my steps with InstallShield (X| X| ): 1. Build my language-specific Setup 2. Build my medium (like CD-Rom) 3. Add to the CD-Rom my HTML files (Autorun, HelpFiles and stuff...) 4. Finish! (And doing this, it cost's me nearly 2 weeks...) You can also send me a private Mail for contacting your office... P.S.: Sorry Chris, did not want to post some Code Related Toppics here ;)
Olli I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.....
:suss: :rolleyes: :suss:I am in Munich. My email address is om@gisntall.com. I will contact you via email.