![]() There are plenty of other installers for Windows, including the popular and expensive InstallShield tools. From what I understand, an MSI makes it easier to do remote and bulk deployments In addition to the nice UI, Advanced Installer can create MSI (Microsoft Installer) files, which are often preferred by IT departments. The free version can use the “Simple” template which will likely suffice for most Xojo developers, but they also have a more powerful paid versions ($400 to $3000). Just replace the app names in the example with your app name, generate a new AppID (using Tool->Generate GUID in the menu) and you can build your installer.Īdvanced Installer has a user interface that is quite easy to use, allowing you to create an installer just by selecting files and specifying settings. There are examples for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows apps. Or you can grab one of the example scripts from the Xojo docs to get you started. The “QuickStart Pack” includes a Script editor that can help with that. Inno Setup creates setup.exe installers and is pretty easy to use once you get your script set up. Both will create an installer that can place your app in Program Files, optionally create desktop and Start menu shortcuts, display a license agreement and much more. What are your options?ĭepending on the project, I’ve used two installers on Windows: Inno Setup and Advanced Installer. PPS: The WindowsDeviceModeMBS class in MBS Win Plugin can help to convert from ANSI to Unicode and back if needed.Now that you’ve finished creating your Windows app, how do you distribute it to Windows users? Microsoft Windows users expect an installer, so you can’t really get away with just using a ZIP file to distribute your apps. PS: If SetupString odes not start with "DoNotAlterThis=SetupString.2" or you are not on TargetWindows, you should not touch it as that may be a new future format. Implementing the proper function to test a setup string is left as homework to the reader. ![]() Skipping two bytes the next two bytes should be &hDC &h00 for Xojo 2017r2 and &h9C &h00 for Xojo 2016r3. But if you find it, you look in the binary data, if you find the bytes &h01 and &h04 exactly 32 or 64 bytes after the start of the binary data. from a new PrinterSetup object and you can simply use it. If you don’t have it, this is an incomplete setup string, e.g. To detect the format of a setup string, you can do the following: You find the string DevModeStructurePS= in the setup string. ![]() If you sum it up, you get &h054C and &h50C, which are exactly the sizes above. The next number is the driver’s data size in bytes, e.g. This value can be &h00DC for size of DEVMODEW structure for Xojo 2017r2 and &h009C for size of DEVMODEA structure for Xojo 2016r3. The following field is the size of the structure, not including any private, driver-specified data. Followed is the spec version &h0401 for Windows 2000 and newer. In the byte stream you see first 32 characters in both versions, either unicode (64 bytes!) or ANSI text. ![]() Please note the format can be printer specific and change depending on which fields are checked in the printer dialog! Values are for example 1292 for older format and 1356 for newer format of the same printer. One of the values listed is DevModeStructureSizePS which shows the size of the binary data. While the exact format of SetupString is not published, you can see it’s text with an embedded binary part. Sadly Xojo missed to increment the version number in their string to ignore older setup strings automatically! You run into problems if you use an older SetupString with newer Xojo versions. Xojo 2016r4 and newer use the unicode version. Xojo 2016r3 and older use DEVMODE structure to describe the printer setup in the ANSI version. Detect PrinterSetup data format As you may know Xojo 2016r4 to 2017r2 made a move to use DirectDraw for printing.
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