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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TraderAlan who wrote (5530)	1/24/1999 3:07:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

For less than $200 you can be software (such as Installshield Express) which will allow you to create a single-file install easily capable of giving a user the ability to do what you suggest in a single click. Well, double-click. That's for PCs -- don't know about mac. But how will you reference the Gifs? Are you going to insist on a fixed path (C:\somethingorother)? I'm not an HTML master by any means, but you would need to know the path where installed, right? A relative path won't work because your HTML is on the server (or rather, would be a relative path to the server location). There may be some simple HTML solution to this of which I'm unaware. Java could solve it but raises other security and performance issues. A fixed path might work but often causes space trouble or name conflicts. I may be overstating this problem, because a user PC-knowledgeable enough to handle several drives or partitions would also know how to handle making room on C and/or dealing with a name conflict.