06-25-2009, 06:51 PM -
I spent some time with some Installation Authoring software to create .msi setup files.
I can do about 20% of what I had in mind with it. For example it has an option to scan the computer for software and create shortcuts to those. However they are all limited to a program group in the start-menu. I am going to spend some more time on this, if if won't work then I will be forced to move on to Visual Studio.
I'm also going to experiment with hard linking,. Do you know how TLB handles those? Just because it's sometime unfortunate to see it when you customize a virtual folder and you make it so it's accessible from more than one place, you must configure each of those individually. If hard linking solves this I am going to search for a script to create them and somehow merge it with the package.
Attatched to this post is the current design, 2 unfinished icons (The Chessboard and the Computer) Just an idication of how complete this package should be.
I can do about 20% of what I had in mind with it. For example it has an option to scan the computer for software and create shortcuts to those. However they are all limited to a program group in the start-menu. I am going to spend some more time on this, if if won't work then I will be forced to move on to Visual Studio.
I'm also going to experiment with hard linking,. Do you know how TLB handles those? Just because it's sometime unfortunate to see it when you customize a virtual folder and you make it so it's accessible from more than one place, you must configure each of those individually. If hard linking solves this I am going to search for a script to create them and somehow merge it with the package.
Attatched to this post is the current design, 2 unfinished icons (The Chessboard and the Computer) Just an idication of how complete this package should be.