Installation test

[Big JR]

Could someone with WM5 help me by testing if my installation works OK. I have used Natural Installer which needs the platform to be specified. It only goes up to Windows Mobile 2003 so I suspect that the installation won't install anything under WM5 but there is always hope.
Successful install should put these files in these folders:
Test.exe into <installdir>
nellie link file into \windows\help
nelhlp.htm into \windows
It will put an icon under Programs.
It will have remove under the normal Settings.
This is just a test program with a couple of buttons -- one should display the help file of the actual program I am working on.
Cheers
John

[Cableguy]

Hi JR
All worked OK...How did You link the helpfile? It's a way bettet solution than using a textbox....

ALmost forgot!

Qtek9000 using WM5 AKU 1.30.77 WWE

[Big JR]

Many thanks Cableguy. That's good news. At least Natural Installer removes all complexities of .cab and .inf files.

As regards the link to help, I use...

Sub Button1_Click
If FileExist("\windows\help\nellie.lnk") = true and FileExist("\windows\nelhlp.htm") = true then
Shell("\Windows\peghelp.exe", "file:nelhlp.htm#Main_Contents", "", "", "", 0, "", "", "","")
else
msgbox("Can't find help file", "Nellie", cMsgBoxOK, cMsgBoxExclamation)
end if
End Sub

The link file contains just one line:
19#\Windows\nelhlp.htm

The 19 refers to the number of characters in "\Windows\nelhlp.htm"

The help file html is different to PC help files.

There's good guide at:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...n/cehelp3.mspx

Hope this helps
John

[Cableguy]

That is a great tip....I suggest You post it on the tips and tricks thread...

Thanks John

[Erel]

You could also use the SetupBuilder: http://www.basic4ppc.com/SetupFiles.html

It creates the required inf files and calls ezsetup with the proper arguments to create a single executable setup (that runs from the desktop).

[Big JR]

Thanks Erel. I was meaning to take a look at SetupBuilder. But does it allow you to specify different destination folders for different files? The help link needs to go in \Windows\help but you'd want the main files to go in <installDir>.

[alfcen]

Gents,
I am quite happy with this:
http://www.aperitto.com/content/view/14/28/

[Erel]

Currently you can only copy files to one folder.
I'll update it in the future to support different folders.

[mwaite]

Yeah I found out the hard way that it only supports installing to one folder. I thought I could trick out the installer and tried editing the .inf file as such:

Changed [SourceDiskNames] to have just two references, 1 for the app, and 1 subfolder under the app folder for all my 271 icons -now you see why I don't want them in the app folder

I then changed the [SourceDisksFiles] section and manually added all the icon filenames and the applicable pointer from [SourceDiskNames].

Then added another path in [DestinationDirs] and referenced that path with all the files in another section (basically following the lead of the sample.inf.

Long story short, I still ended up with all files in app folder. What little hair I have left is gone

Erel, do you think this is possible but I just missed something?

[Erel]

It is possible to modify the inf file and to use more than one folder.
Search the web for cabwiz syntax.