building a installer with rev

runrev at animabit.de runrev at animabit.de
Mon Nov 17 03:18:30 EST 2008


Grüß Dich Tiemo,

1) Perhaps you should try a mixed approach with an installer doing the hard things and your application doing the additional needs you want: 
a small installer + your own routines for copiing from the DVD after start of your installed application.

Make an installer for example with installgadget with just a few files necessary for installation, running, registry settings and uninstall. 
start.exe ->start.rev
Your own application could then do the rest when the installed version starts (the first time or whenever the user wants to copy the videos from DVD to the drive):

* find the location of the DVD
* Let the user define a folder where to store the videos (the installation folder might be not good for such an amount of videos on different drives/partitions) and store this location in a userproperty ;-) of the installed start.rev or in a file. 
* copy all files from the DVD to this folder
* your start.rev should check during start whether a local media folder has been created or the videos of the DVD must be used.



Regards, Franz
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Franz Böhmisch

boehmisch at animabit.de
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