TDM-ModPack v3.20 released

Nodachi · #1 August 18th, 2002, 11:01 PM

First, thank you for the zip, it worked!

I tried all the troubleshooting tips, I even redownloaded the install, I tried both the patch and the full, I also tried to install the single file and got the same error each time.

I don't know why it wouldn't work.

Thanks again!

gregebowman · #2 August 19th, 2002, 05:26 PM

Well, I know why my copy didn't work at first. There was a post about not renaming the file, and that's what I had done. I downloaded it again, and the patch worked perfectly.

Fyron · #3 August 20th, 2002, 09:05 AM

Why, after all this time, is there still a formation named incorrectly? "Barage" should be "Barrage". I am curious as to why this has never been fixed.

Mephisto · #4 August 20th, 2002, 03:27 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Why, after all this time, is there still a formation named incorrectly? "Barage" should be "Barrage". I am curious as to why this has never been fixed.

Because nobody reported it? It's fixed now.

Bman · #5 August 23rd, 2002, 05:41 AM

Mephisto,

I ran the installer and noticed the following things:

I told it to locate SE4.EXE and of course it found the wrong installation so I had to browse for it anyway
I watched as it installed and when it got to 100% it just sat there. I waited and waited and waited and waited and waited. Finally I alt-tabed to do some work in another window while I waited. I worked and waited and worked and waited. I alt-tabed back and it was still stuck. Finally while alt-tabing I noticed a dos window in the list. I switched to this window and it was xcopy saying it was done copying files. So I closed it and then the installation process continued. There was no way to see this dos window because the installation screen hides the start bar.

You should check out Inno Setup. It has a very easy to use wizard for creating your setup program and it looks professional like the new XP-style installs and it does not mess with that xcopy business. While it does not search for EXE's (which didn't work too well anyway) it can set the installdir based upon registry settings.
Anyway...thanks for the update.

[ August 23, 2002, 04:41: Message edited by: Bman ]

sven · #6 August 23rd, 2002, 06:58 AM

FWIW I've used Inno Setup in the past and it works great. It's been a few years now but presumably any newer Versions are as good if not better than the ones I've used.

Having said that however, the Versions of Inno that I used required you to manually write a script detailing every file you wanted in the installation and where it would go. That's ok for a small installation but with 1000+ files in TDM that sure would be a pain.

The script editor wizard used to be a separate download (again this was a few years ago) - I haven't looked but be sure to check the 3rd party section of the site just in case it still is. Believe me you don't want to write out a script the size TDM would need by hand.

Bman · #7 August 23rd, 2002, 07:54 AM

The Version I downloaded Last week had a real neato point-and-click wizard that let you pick your files (maybe even folders I am not sure) and asked you where the destination should be and asked for licenses and readmes and if it was uninstallable and what icons to make etc. It was real easy. When it was done I had to edit the script slightly to flag some OCX's and DLL's to be registered after install and I flagged the readme file so the user could view it when done. Still it only took me 10 minutes from the time I downloaded the program to having a setup.exe that did some complicated stuff.