ANN: Simplify and speed up your software installs with Build Automator

Hi all,

For Immediate Release

For more information contact:
Icetips Creative, Inc.
Arnor Baldvinsson
info@buildautomator.com

San Antonio, TX – Icetips Creative, Inc. has released the Build
Automator, a new utility program for developers that saves time and
simplifies building new software installations.

With strong support for Clarion developers and SetupBuilder users, the
Build Automator makes it easy to create fully automated scripts to
build a completely new install of your software. This includes
compiling Clarion applications, copying files and compiling
SetupBuilder scripts. Build Automator supports both the new
Clarion7/Clarion.NET IDE, through the use of MS-Build, and the Clarion
6 (and older) IDE.

The Build Automator also supports other popular developer suites such
as Visual Studio and Delphi. It also natively supports Inno Setup,
which is a popular freeware install software. Native support for
InstallShield and Wise will be added later.

The Build Automator is simple and easy to use. There is no scripting
language to learn and no programming skills required. The Build
Automator has the ability to be extended with plugin dlls for those
who may wish to do so. (This option available only in the Developer
Edition.)

You can also use the Build Automator to automate any other repetitive
tasks, such as copying files for backup purposes. The Build Automator
can run any program you want, and you can specify parameters you may
need to pass to the program.

The Build Automator is currently in beta until June 1st, when it will
be released as the 2008 Edition. Until then, the full Developer
Edition with one year of maintenance is being offered for $99.00 –
that is 50% off the regular price of $199!

The Build Automator is available for download as a 10 day unlimited
demo from the website at http://www.buildautomator.com

For more information on the Build Automator, visit the website at
http://www.buildautomator.com or contact Arnor Baldvinsson, Icetips
Creative, Inc. at info@buildautomator.com or info@icetips.com .

Posted on the SetupBuilder newsgroup with permission from Friedrich
Linder:)

Best regards,

Arnór Baldvinsson
Icetips Creative, Inc.
San Antonio, Texas, USA
www.icetips.com


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That looks really cool.

Especially the plug-ins thing. That's enough to make me want it, right
there. I have a couple of programs that I wrote to pre-process my
multi-prj generated .prj files, which requires an extra couple of
steps.

Jeff Slarve

Hi Jeff,

>That looks really cool.
>
>Especially the plug-ins thing. That's enough to make me want it, right
>there. I have a couple of programs that I wrote to pre-process my
>multi-prj generated .prj files, which requires an extra couple of
>steps.

You can use the "Run Program" action to run anything you want. The
plugin dlls are not supported in this first release (should be in next
week's release) and the docs are a bit sparse on this. Friedrich has
been kind enough to add several new features to SetupBuilder in the
past several months as well as in the new upcoming SetupBuilder 7 that
are there mainly for the benefit of the Build Automator:)

BTW: There was a typo in one of my download urls on the site for the
install resulting in "page not found". I have fixed that now:)

Best regards,

Arnór Baldvinsson
Icetips Creative, Inc.
San Antonio, Texas, USA
www.icetips.com

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Please let me know when this is working. I'd love to see an example of
it.

Jeff Slarve

Hi Jeff,

>Please let me know when this is working. I'd love to see an example of
>it.

Actually all the actions in the Build Automator are in a plugin dll -
it just happens to be the main Icetips plugin, written by me;) The
limitation that is in there now is that it isn't dynamically loading
the plugin dlls so it is hardcoded to use the icetips main plugin.
You can run programs all you want if that's all you want. But for you
to write dlls for it to call as plugin option you need to wait until
next week;)

Best regards,

Arnór Baldvinsson
Icetips Creative, Inc.
San Antonio, Texas, USA
www.icetips.com

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