Yes, Installshield is much more than self-extracting zip files.
Chances are pretty good that the last pc product you installed
used Installshield. I use it for my own products.
Installshield Express is a limited version of installshield.
It does not have the vast array of options
that the full Installshield has, but it is plenty capable
for installing simple products. What you propose is about
as simple as it gets.
You can specify the default location for install. In
my install setup, the user gets to change the location.
I THINK you can specify fixed locations for certain
files, but not sure offhand. If so, that would be
the whole install in this case. Installshield will
create all the directories it needs.
Sure, if you know the full path to the GIFs you could
access them on the local HD with HTML from the server.
Better choose an unusual fixed name, though. C:\Win probably
wouldn't be too hot an idea <gg>, and c:\Images would be
nearly as bad, I think.
Not sure what you mean by a relative HD path for PCs.
It's an HTML thing, right? HTML relative paths are
relative to the HTML source file on the server that
makes the file reference. Absolute paths are absolute
in the context of the HTML interpreter (browser), namely,
the user's system, so C:\xxx refers to the local C drive.
Or so I understand. I have only done it with HTML from
my local system, but the browser shouldn't be sensitive
to the location of the HTML itself except for a relative
path reference. |
