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In lugnet.cad.dev, Mike Stanley writes:
> Wouldn't try that. Too many people don't have VB runtimes installed,
> and just throwing them on the CD doesn't work (unless you want to make
> people install them first, which is a pain, but could work).
How much of a pain? Can it be as simple as a window prompting them to give
approval to add them? Or is it much more painful than that?
> I tried
> going this route when I was working on a CD for a local company -
> needed an autorun menu-type thing. Couldn't get it to work reliably
> on all versions of 95/98/NT.
>
> I ended up going with this program:
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> AutoPlay Menu Studio Pro
> http://www.indigorose.com/autoplay/
Ok.
> which would probably be too expensive to invest in for a project like
> this, although I suppose since I have it I could generate the menu
> program for the CD. But unless Tim could get things organized to the
> point of me only needing to tap in the locations of a few random
> executables on the CD, maybe some text on the menu screen, I can't
> offer to do it - too busy. Well, I can't offer to do it for free, and
> Tim couldn't afford to pay me to do it.
Sounds good, we'll have a better picture of what's needed as far as a menu
goes when resources are collected, some installation doodad is whipped up, and
when the HTML guide comes together.
Being the design nut I am, does it allow pretty much complete freedom as to
how this menu will appear graphically? I'd like to design the look to fit in
with the HTML guide, which will take on a souped up ldraw.org look with a
little more color (as I see it in my head now).
I guesstimate about a month for all this to take shape, and we can have it
distributed in two months.
-Tim
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| (...) You *don't* want to use a VB-based program as an installer. Before a VB program can run, all the VB-runtime files have to be installed. This means that the setup program has to install multi-megabytes of *system* files before the user sees (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
| | | Re: Organizing the LDraw CD-ROM
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| (...) Well, I don't like the idea of asking someone to install runtimes before "my" program will work. It looks cheesy, I think, and unprofessional. And it certainly wasn't an option for the company I was doing this project for or for me, (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| (...) Wouldn't try that. Too many people don't have VB runtimes installed, and just throwing them on the CD doesn't work (unless you want to make people install them first, which is a pain, but could work). I tried going this route when I was (...) (25 years ago, 5-Feb-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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