Where's the wizard for install shield?

[baseballgem]

I can't find it. The help just talks about installing VFP.
I am in version 7.0

Someone told me under Wizards there was a "setup" but there isn't.

I want to create a distribution CD. Actually my boss says since it's only inter-office to put it on the e:<drive> (the network) then a remote user can just click the setup.exe that I would create and it would install the necessary run times etc.
I know I did this once before in 5.0 but I can't find it in 7.
Well, enough said.

 

[andre65]

Until version 60, VFP has it's own setup utility (which indeed can be found in the Wizard section). From version 70, VFP uses/delivers InstallShield Express which is shipped as an application next to VFP.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Baseballgem,

As Andre65 said, VFP 7.0 (and 8.0) does not have the setup wizard. You shold use InstallShield Express instead. This is a separate application which comes on the VFP CD. It is not installed by default; you have to install it separately.

InstallShield Express will let you create the program your boss wants. It is much more complicated than the old setup wizard. There is a document on the VFP CD that tells you how to use it, plus several articles on line.

Mike


Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland

http://www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk