Bytessence Install Maker 5.40 - (09Jan2013) - new release

[Inf0Byt3]

@Little John,
I think I could add an option to allow the installer to make shortcuts for the current user or for all of them. Thanks for the suggestion.

@skywalk
I think this is a design flaw... Will have a look at it, thanks for the report.

[Little John]

@Little John,
I think I could add an option to allow the installer to make shortcuts for the current user or for all of them.

That would be great. Thanks for considering it.

Regards, Little John

[skywalk]

@skywalk
I think this is a design flaw... Will have a look at it, thanks for the report.

Cool,
I rebooted and it still prompts for Admin account.

[yrreti]

Hi Inf0Byt3

I really like your program , but have a question?
In your Settings selection you can choose the 'Directory containing the program files and folders' you wish to include
in your install program. If I wanted to keep the executables and non data files separate from the data files, how would I do that?
For example:
My existing program and files that I want to create an installer of, are set up this way.
C:\Program Files\MyProgramName contains all my exe and non data files.
C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\MyProgramName contains all my data files.

So with the installer, I need to Create Programs Directory in C:\Program Files\MyProgramName
Then be able to choose from your Settings selection and copy all my exe and non data files there from my
C:\Program Files\MyProgramName. (which contains just those files)

Then to create the Programs data Directory in C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\MyProgramName
Then be able to choose from your Settings selection and copy all data files there from my
C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\MyProgramName. (which contains just those files)

I suppose it's possible by creating two separate installers, one for the program files, and one for the data files.
But the uninstall would be messy because you would have two entries to uninstall.
But Is this possible, or could this be made possible with your program to do this with one installer program?

Again as it is, thank you for your excellent program.

[Inf0Byt3]

Hi yrreti,

For now BIM doesn't allow for explicitly choosing different output paths, although it is a great idea and I'll try to implement it in one of the next versions. One solution would be to have your data files put in a folder in the program's main installation dir (let's say in a folder called "AData"). Then, you could do the following from BIM:

- Create a folder in AppData using a 'Create folder' task
- Add some 'Copy file' installer tasks from BIM and copy the files from

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<DefaultInstallPath>\AData\DataFile.dat

to

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<AppData>\AFolder\DataFile.dat

You can add a task for each data file this way and the files will be copied from the path where the program is installed to AppData

[pege]

Hi Inf0Byt3,
I downloaded v4.4 but it says I must "...run this setup program under an Administrator account!"
My account is a member of Admin but I am not logged in as Admin.
I will reboot and try again, but is this a common error?

Thanks,
Steve

XP Pro SP3

Hi,

Multiple clients report same problem for Windows Server 2003. They say they are administrators or have administrative rights but cannot start our BIM installer because it says "needs to run as Administrator".

Do you know if there's something that can be done on the Windows settings side or do we need an update for BIM? Would not want to change to another installer program since aside from this issue BIM has worked perfectly for us.

-Pege

[skywalk]

I had to disconnect from the network. Then it installed OK.
Are you saying it won't run even after having been installed?

[Inf0Byt3]

I'm working on an update to fix this issue. In theory the program should have detected if the current user is in the administrator group but probably there is some other issue that makes the code fail. Will try to reproduce this on more machines.

[Inf0Byt3]

Version 4.41 is now ready. Here's the list of changes:

-Fixed a problem with the administrator rights detection procedure
-Added possibility to install programs without needing administrator rights
-Added possibility to update the entries from the window list (requirements)
-Added an option for creating a Start menu group for all users in the installer
-Added an option for restricting the installer to be run on x64 operating systems
-Added 2 new path variables: <installerexe> and <installerexedir>
-Added Hebrew translation in the package
-Pressing F1 when adding an installer/uninstaller task will open the context help
-Reorganized some of the controls on the Requirements page
-Optimized the size of the executables

Please let me know if you find any bug .

[madude]

Very nice program. Is there a way to include Version info in the uninstaller

[Little John]

Hi,

thank you very much for the new release!

Please let me know if you find any bug .

I discovered a small glitch while installing the program itself (in German language).
There is no text next to the upper check box:

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Regards, Litle John

[Inf0Byt3]

I discovered a small glitch while installing the program itself (in German language).
There is no text next to the upper check box:

I have release a new version (4.42) that should eliminate this problem. Here are the changes:

-Fixed the German translation that was missing some lines
-Added information about the new path variables in the help file

@madude: for now there are no options to customize the version info / icon of the uninstaller but I'll consider adding them in one of the next versions

[madude]

@madude: for now there are no options to customize the version info / icon of the uninstaller but I'll consider adding them in one of the next versions

Thanks Inf0Byt3.....Am waiting for that version..hope you'll include it in the next version

[Little John]

Thank you, Inf0Byt3!

[JackWebb]

@Inf0Byt3,

Excellent job on this! I will use BIM, no point to write my own But I'm having a small problem.. When I download my install package and install to a win7 machine, it stops at the executable (my program) I click ignore and it installs everything else..

If I right click on the installer package (save it to my hard drive first) and select the option to run as admin, it installs with no problem. I have the "install with admin rights" checked on. I tried it both ways and played around with different settings, but all the same. What am I doing wrong?

It installs fine on any XP system, have not tried on Vista.


Thank You In Advance!
Jack


WinXP SP3
PB4.51
BIM4.42