AW: Where to place (sub)stacks?

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Hi Beat,

As I have learned recently you actually don't need an "installer" for Mac if
you don't do any sophisticated things. Just look for a tool (there are
different freeware tools), which packs all stuff into a dmg file and provide
a link in your dmg file to the program folder where the user can move your
app folder to.

On Vista and Win 7 you are right not to put any files, which have to be
changed by the user into the program files dir, because they will be
virtualized by Vista on the first change, which brings you a lot of trouble
in the future. That’s why the users documents folder or application data
folder (for all users) is the better choice.

In inno you can define more than one input folder and you can define
different target folders for each file. If you write me offlist I can
provide you an inno example file for that case.

Tiemo


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-
> bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Beat Cornaz
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. September 2009 10:47
> An: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Betreff: Where to place (sub)stacks?
> 
> I am completing my first commercial standalone and I am unsure of
> where to place the (sub)stacks on the user's machine.
> 
> The stack consists of a splash (main stack) with about 30 substacks.
> Some of the substacks display data which is changed by the user and
> needs to be saved.
> Now, where do I put my stacks on the users machine? Until now I put
> the whole package (main stack + all substacks) into the Application
> Folder.
> But I heard that this might cause problems (i.e. in Vista) because
> some setups do not allow to write to files in the Application Folder.
> 
> Is it a good way to place those substacks that need writing to, into
> the Application Support Folder? If so, how do I do that with the
> installer? I got help from Lars Bremer with the Inno Setup Installer,
> which works great, but places all (sub)stacks into the Application
> Folder. How will I solve this?
> 
> Are there any other things that I need to be aware of? To be honest,
> I am a tad nervous, as I got into contact with someone who wants to
> distribute my product big. I am not completely done (I found out) and
> he wants to move quick. I did not do extensive testing on different
> systems, just OSX 10.4 and Windows XP 2000.
> 
> How will I make an installer for mac OSX?
> 
> Thanks a lot for any help.
> 
> Beat Cornaz
> 
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