TDM-ModPack v3.20 released

Mephisto · #1 August 23rd, 2002, 03:11 PM

Thanks for the hint with Inno, actually, I have found it several days ago myself and I'm just in the process of making up the setup.

The "Inno Setup Tool" even let me to a drag and drop with all the files. The only thing not ready yet is the detection of the install path and to ask the user if he really wants to install to a directory that has no SE4.exe present. Unfortunately SE4 does not have one single registry line where it puts its install directory, just an uninstall string that I must process to read correctly and even then I cannot use the path directly to install to as it is written in the old dos compatible way...

Bman · #2 August 23rd, 2002, 08:07 PM

There is a reg entry called "Last Save Folder" or something similar to that. It might be useful.

Mephisto · #3 August 24th, 2002, 01:02 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Bman:
There is a reg entry called "Last Save Folder" or something similar to that. It might be useful.

Thanks for the hint, Bman.

I thought about that one. However, many PBW people might not use their SE4 folder for saving their games at all (not even in the same part of the directory tree...). I wish the filefinder function would allow for a recursive search mode or a way to read all the folders of all drives and put that in the dir variable of the filefinder function. As far as I can tell this is not possible at the moment. Oh well, when I find some time in September I will see what I can do. Any comments and thoughts and especially any solution to this whole problem is more then welcome.

Mephisto · #4 September 9th, 2002, 05:44 PM

Finally, I have finished the new install program with Inno Setup. You can download it here:

Grab it here: TDM-ModPack Homepage

I would very much appreciate if somebody could download the new files and test them. They work fine here but I need some testers.

[ September 15, 2002, 00:06: Message edited by: [K126]Mephisto ]

Marco · #5 September 9th, 2002, 07:05 PM

For Mephisto: I made the installation one first time in the default SE4 directory and a second time in a separated directory without the SE4 executable, in both case the program worked fine.
Thanks.
Marco.

Mephisto · #6 September 9th, 2002, 08:44 PM

Thanks for the feedback! Glad that it worked fine for you.

Marco · #7 September 10th, 2002, 12:24 PM

For Mephisto: the upgrade file works correctly, as I told you, but apparently there is an error in the full installation file, in the data directory only 2 .txt files are created instead of 28. The upgrade file, on the other hand, install all the 28 .txt files. May be the installation routine of the Data directory has been inverted in the two executable files ? I installed the upgrade Version over the full Version and after that all works correctly.
Marco.