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White Paper
White Paper
Installation Software white paper
After designing, writing and debugging your latest application, there's only one decision
left to make: Choosing the installation program!
The Windows installation community traditionally been faced with a couple of choices.
Spend hundreds to thousands of dollars on one of the market leaders, like Installshield or
Wise installers then spend months learning how to use it, through special training courses and
tedious script specifications. The other alternative was a budget installer which just
doesn't provide the features or flexibility you need.
The challenge of Pantaray Research was to develop an installer which on one hand is easy and
flexible and on the other hand have all the needed features for professional installation.
The outcome is simple and most effective installation software: QSetup Installation Suite
which adds the finishing touch to your latest program with a professional installation routine.
Launch the QSetup Installation Suite and at first it looks just like any other basic
setup creator. You just click on various tabs to define your project description, files to
install and so on, and compile the finished results when you're done.
But then you take a closer look at some of the options available, and realize there are some
powerful features here. How would you like your applications to automatically update themselves
over the Internet, for example? You can add this ability by filling in a single dialog box.
There are comprehensive tools to customize the users PC when they're installing your app.
You can add custom strings to the environment, lines to an INI file, Registry keys and values,
as well as creating shortcuts or file associations. It's up to you which of these are removed
later by the Uninstall program.
Maybe you have more complex requirements? Then take a look at the options available under the
Execute tab. This lets you perform an option based on conditional tests, perhaps running
a particular executable if the users PC had a particular service running, and had less than
256MB of RAM, but was not running Windows 2000.
This could all get quite complicated, but fortunately QSetup defaults to displaying Help as you
view each screen. You'll master the basics very quickly, and even the most complex of installation
programs should be completed within an hour.
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Last edited: 10-APR-2022 Copyright © 2002-2022 Pantaray Research, All Rights Reserved.
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