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Hello Showcase Section!
Me and My developer have been pretty busy on a installer but we are out of ideas for new features.
This installer downloads a .7z and unpacks it.
Let me explain the installer steps:
1. People open the installer, this pops:
It downloads all files that are needed to unpack the 7z file and store it in temp.
2. It will open:
There can be added multiple games / programs to download, people can just choose the game they want to download.
3. Then this opens:
People can select if they want to have a startmenu folder and Desktop shortcut from the game.exe or launcher.exe, they just put the install path or leave it default, they press install.
It will start downloading the client from one of the mirrors, it will select the first mirror from a XML file that is placed on your webserver, it looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<InstallConfig>
<Mirrors>
<Mirror>http://mirror1.com</Mirror>
<Mirror lastResort="true">http://mirror2.com</Mirror>
</Mirrors>
<File>ClockworkMU.7z</File> Exact name of the 7z the installer has to download
<Folder>ClockworkMU</Folder> The exact folder inside the .7z
<Executable>ClockworkMU.exe</Executable> The Executable that it uses for create shortcut and for Do you want to start playing the game now?
</InstallConfig>
Is a mirror down? It will go to the second mirror!
After downloading it will start unpacking the .7z.
When it's done it will ask: Do you want to start playing?
That's it so far, any ideas?
Please rate! :junglejane:
Me and My developer have been pretty busy on a installer but we are out of ideas for new features.
This installer downloads a .7z and unpacks it.
Let me explain the installer steps:
1. People open the installer, this pops:
It downloads all files that are needed to unpack the 7z file and store it in temp.
2. It will open:
There can be added multiple games / programs to download, people can just choose the game they want to download.
3. Then this opens:
People can select if they want to have a startmenu folder and Desktop shortcut from the game.exe or launcher.exe, they just put the install path or leave it default, they press install.
It will start downloading the client from one of the mirrors, it will select the first mirror from a XML file that is placed on your webserver, it looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<InstallConfig>
<Mirrors>
<Mirror>http://mirror1.com</Mirror>
<Mirror lastResort="true">http://mirror2.com</Mirror>
</Mirrors>
<File>ClockworkMU.7z</File> Exact name of the 7z the installer has to download
<Folder>ClockworkMU</Folder> The exact folder inside the .7z
<Executable>ClockworkMU.exe</Executable> The Executable that it uses for create shortcut and for Do you want to start playing the game now?
</InstallConfig>
Is a mirror down? It will go to the second mirror!
After downloading it will start unpacking the .7z.
When it's done it will ask: Do you want to start playing?
That's it so far, any ideas?
Please rate! :junglejane: