WINDEV Concepts

Part 5: Setup 167 1.2 Tools for creating the setup program Different tools are available to create, maintain and customize the setup program. Wizard WDInst setup editor WDSETUP customization Create a standard setup program (in French and in English by default) X (recommended) X Maintain a setup program X X Customize a setup program (the program that is started on the user computer) X X (multilingual setup for example) Start mode On the "Project" tab, in the "Generation" group, click "Setup procedure". On the "Tools" tab, in the "Utilities" group, click "WDInst". WDSETUP project available in the "Examples" subdirectory of the WINDEV setup directory. 1.3 Different types of setup Two types of setup are available in WINDEV: • Individual setup : recommended for single-user applications. The setup program installs the application on the user computer. • Setup with automatic update : recommended for multi-user applications. The setup with automatic update is performed in two steps: • The reference application is installed on the server. The reference application corresponds to the setup program of the application on the user computers. • The final application is installed on each user computer by running the setup program found on the server. The updates will be automatically performed when the reference application changes on the server. 2 Creating the setup program Individual setup Different types of setup are available: • Standard setup The setup program is independent of the application. All the files required by the application are installed on the user computers. To take an update into account, this update must be run on each user computer. • Compact setup A standard setup is performed. However, the setup program is smaller because it does not use specific DLLs and some customization options are not available. • Setup via MSI package A standard setup that uses the features of the integrated Windows installer is performed.