Re: Windows Installer for Xconq

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald@phy.cmich.edu>]

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Hans Ronne wrote:

> This is great! Precisely what we needed.

Thanks. Glad you like it.

> on my somewhat unusal Windows setup. I saw only one minor glitch, and that
> is that the icons are drawn using 4-bit graphics,

Interesting. Which icons? The installer and uninstaller icons? 
Except for a misguided attempt to borrow an icon from Xconq.ico 
for the Xconq documents, I don't recall having any other icons.

> available. When I compile the icons into the exe file, the correct depth is
> used, so this is not just a setup problem.

Yes, this is my plan. I think that I will need to use windres, 
which is provided with Cygwin, to use the Xconq.RC file to make an 
obj file to link in.

> I just checked in the new document icons for Windows. So when you get
> around to binding icons, you could bind those to the xcq extension.

Will do. Thanks.

I also think it might be a good idea to toss up a GPL license 
screen at the beginning of the install process. I played with that 
yesterday but was experiencing some issues.

And I envision a user being able to choose between a "Minimal" 
(xconq.exe plus game library and support stuff), 
"Standard" (Minimal plus imfapp.exe), and "Full" install 
(Standard plus the sources). I have rudimentary support for 
this in the install script, but nothing that is visible yet. I 
suppose "Custom" could also become an option, __but, one thing at 
a time.

Eric

P.S. I will check in my NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) 
script later this week. Nullsoft is the same company that makes 
Winamp, which is why the installer interface might seem familiar 
to some.