Creating an installation file
 

Hello,

I have recently completed an Excel Add-In and I would like t
distribute it. In scouring ways to do this, I came across in thi
forum a suggestion to use "Inno Setup" (by Jordan Russell) which is a
awesome installer program.

That said, I don't know how to bundle everything (my Add-In an
associated workbooks) into one simple setup file that I could actuall
deploy to users.

Does anybody know what to do once they have compiled their installatio
program in Inno Setup? For instance, FreeExtractor actually bundle
everything into a nice setup when it is done. While I like thi
program a lot, there are features in Inno Setup that I would prefer t
use.

Any advice on using Inno Setup would be much appreciated.

-Sila

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Creating an installation file
 

I have used InnoSetup to distribute XLS files, XLA files and OCX files.

Once you compile your script, look for a folder called Output which gets
added to the folder where your script is. There will be a file called
setup.exe -- rename this to something more appropriate, if you like.

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Dianne Butterworth

Hello,

I have recently completed an Excel Add-In and I would like to
distribute it. In scouring ways to do this, I came across in this
forum a suggestion to use "Inno Setup" (by Jordan Russell) which is an
awesome installer program.

That said, I don't know how to bundle everything (my Add-In and
associated workbooks) into one simple setup file that I could actually
deploy to users.

Does anybody know what to do once they have compiled their
installation program in Inno Setup? For instance, FreeExtractor
actually bundles everything into a nice setup when it is done. While
I like this program a lot, there are features in Inno Setup that I
would prefer to use.

Any advice on using Inno Setup would be much appreciated.

-Silas


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Creating an installation file
 

Thanks!!!

That worked. I really appreciate your help.

Best Regards,

-Silas


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Creating an installation file
 

I'd sure like to see your resultant ISS file so that I could figure out howo
do this!

Could you send it to me?

"Silas Mercer " wrote in
message ...
Thanks!!!

That worked. I really appreciate your help.

Best Regards,

-Silas


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Creating an installation file
 

The latest version of InnoSetup comes with ISTools, which has a wizard to
walk you through the creation of your ISS.

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Dianne Butterworth

Paul Lautman wrote:
I'd sure like to see your resultant ISS file so that I could figure
out howo do this!

Could you send it to me?

"Silas Mercer " wrote in
message ...
Thanks!!!

That worked. I really appreciate your help.

Best Regards,

-Silas


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Creating an installation file
 

Yep, I've seen that, but it doesn't include things like building in the
stuff to install the addin.

"Dianne Butterworth" wrote in message
...
The latest version of InnoSetup comes with ISTools, which has a wizard to
walk you through the creation of your ISS.

--
Dianne Butterworth

Paul Lautman wrote:
I'd sure like to see your resultant ISS file so that I could figure
out howo do this!

Could you send it to me?

"Silas Mercer " wrote in
message ...
Thanks!!!

That worked. I really appreciate your help.

Best Regards,

-Silas


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Creating an installation file
 

Paul,

This is what my [Files] section looks like:

Source: C:\Documents and Settings\dbutterworth\My
Documents\Excel\JobLogs\JobLogManager v4.4.xls; DestDir: {app}; Flags:
confirmoverwrite
Source: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Library\PMApprover.xla;
DestDir: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Library; Flags:
ignoreversion confirmoverwrite
Source: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Library\JL4Manager.xla;
DestDir: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Library; Flags:
ignoreversion confirmoverwrite
Source: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Library\VendorList.xla;
DestDir: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\Library; Flags:
confirmoverwrite
Source: C:\Documents and Settings\dbutterworth\My
Documents\Excel\JobLogs\Mscomct2.ocx; DestDir: {sys}; Flags: restartreplace
sharedfile regserver

I have a different setup file for computers running OfficeXP, since the
Library is found in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\Library
instead.

What I'd eventually like to do is to read/write to the Registry so that I
don't need to hard code destination folders (hard coding - ick). Or at least
figure out a better way to find and reference the XLA files if the user
installs them somewhere odd.

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HTH,
Dianne Butterworth


Paul Lautman wrote:
Yep, I've seen that, but it doesn't include things like building in
the stuff to install the addin.

"Dianne Butterworth" wrote in message
...
The latest version of InnoSetup comes with ISTools, which has a
wizard to walk you through the creation of your ISS.

--
Dianne Butterworth

Paul Lautman wrote:
I'd sure like to see your resultant ISS file so that I could figure
out howo do this!

Could you send it to me?

"Silas Mercer " wrote
in message ...
Thanks!!!

That worked. I really appreciate your help.

Best Regards,

-Silas


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