Setup Builder Request

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I have just received Setup Builder 5.5 thanks to Friedrich's special offer
and am more than impressed - WONDERFUL, elegant upgrade - I should have
done it a long time ago.

One suggestion or maybe "how-do-I-do...": When I have built an install exe
I need to copy it to several places. Clarion IDE project has a "Programs
to Execute" which runs when a compile is finished and I put a batch-file in
there to copy my new .exe to various places. I can't seem to find anywhere
in SB where I can make this automatic.

I know I can run programs on installation, and do so, but I can't seem to
find a place to do this on creation of the install-file.

Does anyone know how?

Dermot

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Dermot,

Thanks so much for your kind words!

You can do this in the script using compiler directives. For example, #copy
file. You can even zip (#zip file) the compiled setup.exe and then FTP it
(#ftp upload) to your web server. All this can be done from the IDE or from
the command line. You can rename files during or after the compilation
process and more.

Does this help?

Friedrich

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Friedrich Linder
CEO, Lindersoft
www.lindersoft.com
+1.954.252.3910

"point. click. ship" - that's SetupBuilder 5

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Words fail me - SO elegant and simple!

And I also learned a little about scripting. Having spent 35 years typing
code/scripts Friedrich takes that all away from me! What a pleasure!

The rest of you have got blase about what Friedrich has accomplished here,
but I'm still new to the elegance and simplicity! If you are still using
the Clarion version, change NOW!

Dermot

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True, but there is still clutter in front of the simplicity. Otherwise,
you would not have asked the question.

If you want to be taken seriously as an ISV, I think SB is a must have
product.

George Riddell

PS. Still incorporating this product into operations.

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You are quite right - see Bruce's article "Your Best Customer" on his
website. (http://www.capesoft.com/opinion/bestcust.htm) - very difficult to
find on his website - no frontpage referece I could find !!!

I imagine that an entry in General Information like in the Clarion Project
file of "Program to Execute" [on completion]. It would need an attached
note that you can add more programs using scripting. This would have made
it very obvious and I use this in all my Clarion programs.

One minor beef I do have is that the script editor (exactly like Clarion's
editor - a perennial complaint of mine) always starts at the top and it
takes several keystrokes to get where I was. If it started on the same
line as I was when I left, if I needed to be at the top [Cntrl-Home] is
simple, stabdardised, and many less keystrokes. In a long embed or script,
this would save an immense amount of time and frustration.

Dermot