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Deploying ToDo / Deploying on Windows
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We will now test the Windows version of ToDo on Microsoft Windows and we will create an installer for it. First you'll want to download the Installer Tool. The Tool we will be using is called Inno Setup, a free tool for creating Microsoft Windows application installers. The web site is J R Software dot org, you should go there to download the Tool before we go much further. Now the next step is to copy our Windows build over to our Windows machine. This is the ToDo application, let's run it, create a new task, everything looks good, now we'll close the window and let's create our Installer. We'll launch Inno Setup which I have here on the Taskbar, and we'll create a new script using the script wizard. Here we can start to fill in some of the information, we'll leave all these at the defaults. Here we select the application file, we can also add our folder. The lids folder contains related DLLs needed by the ToDo application. We will leave all these at the defaults, we can optionally display a license file that the user has to agree to before they can install your application, and you can also just display other text files before and after. We'll change the installer name to be Setup ToDo, and we'll click Finish. We don't want to run the script just yet because we do have to make one change to it. Looking at the script, you'll see that there is a few sections, you have your setup section, languages, tasks, and files. We need to tweak a couple of things so that the lids folder that is copied over does not get copied into the app folder, but is instead copied into it's own lids folder. To do that, we will add a new section for directories and then we will tell the copy command for the lids folder to also copy it to this lids folder. Let's save this. The last two sections are for creating start menu icons and for the option to run the installer, or run the application when the installer has finished. Now we will click the Build button to compile our script into an installer file. Here you'll see our installer script, and the output folder will contain the installer file, Setup ToDo dot EXE. We can double click this, tell Windows it is acceptable, and you'll see your standard installer window. You can click Next to walk through and make any changes. Finally we can let it launch the ToDo application and we can mark our task as complete.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Real Studio |
| Author: | Paul Lefebvre |
| SKU: | 34190 |
| ISBN: | 1-936334-77-1 |
| Release Date: | 2011-02-02 |
| Duration: | 7 hrs / 87 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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