what makes a file "installed"?

[Richard Gaskin]

Erik Hansen wrote:

>>Mark Talluto wrote:
>>
>>>On May 21, 2004, at 10:17 PM, Erik Hansen
>>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>>is there any way to automate the whole deal
>>>>and put it in a button "Install Me!"
>>>>along the lines of Alice in the Looking
>>Glass?
>>
>>>You can put the whole installer into a custom
>>property and spit it out, 
>>>run the installer, and delete it when it is
>>all over.  I have done this 
>>>a few times for installing fonts.
 >>
>>An excellent suggestion.
>>
>>Also, most installers allow you to launch other
>>installers as part of 
>>the installation sequence.  So even if just
>>another file on the CD, it's 
>>fairly common for the QT installer to be
>>piggy-backed this way as just 
>>another step in the installation.
>>
>>-- 
>>  Richard Gaskin
>>  Fourth World Media Corporation
> 
> 
> what makes a file "installed"
> as opposed to "loaded" or "copied to"
> the desktop?

For the most part they're the same thing.  What an installer can do for 
you is copy files to specific locations if needed, and on Win make any 
neessary registry entries (such as those needed to associate a file type 
with an application).

-- 
  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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