Creating self installing progs and exe's
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| Hi folks, Been a member for ages but just started getting back into programming. My question is this - within my program i use various pictures/sprites/music/sounds/fonts etc. and i want them all to work when i make my exe file. How do i do this? Do i need to create an installing program or just bundle the files with a ZIP with instructions on where to install them to (presumably fixed paths as my program reads files from certain paths). Any advice would be great!! Cheers in advance |
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| http://www.clickteam.com/eng/installcreator.php free version or pay for version |
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| Search for "Inno Setup Compiler" it is great! And free (I think) |
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| if your program reads files from a specific path, do yourself the favor and first fix your program. relative paths: ok absolute paths: not ok to plain stupid not everyone is having C and D drives and the like for example As for the installer: 7zip and self extracting exe could do the job as well if you don't need registry key or register dlls etc |
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| Ok, thanks for the advice people. How do i do relative paths? that might be a very open question but that sounds like it will makes sense. |
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the way i see it (aint blitzed in yonks) instead ofC:\program files\blitz\bla\bla\gfx\png.png its just gfx\png assuming that the exe is in the 2nd bla directory same as if you were doing a website and calling gfx from a folder if you go the zip route and not a 'bung everything in an exe' method, as long as the files arnt moved by the user everything should be hunky dory no matter where they extract it to, even a usb drive if the transfer rate is fast enough to play the game ;) |
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| 2nd vote for Inno setup and "IStool" which is a separate front end wizard for it. Makes this stuff really easy. Its free too. |
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