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Lesson
5 - Installation Package |
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Once your plugin is created, you may want to make a installation
package for the end-user to install your plugin. The installation
package can be created by any installer, such as Inno Setup,
InstallShield, etc. If you choose one of those installers to
make the installation package, your installation package can
get the full path of the plugin directory from this registry
key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\LionMax Software\WWW
File Share Pro\PluginPath
Actually the simplest way to make the installation package is
to compress all files of your plugin into a zip file. So you
can create the installation package by Winzip, 7-zip, etc.
There is a button "Install a new plugin" on the "Plugins"
panel of WWW File Share Pro for the user to install your plugin.
The plugin installer of WWW File Share Pro will create the plugin
directory and extract all files from your zip file into your
plugin directory.
The directory name of the plugin depends on the filename of
your zip file. For example, if the filename of the zip file
is "NewPlugin.zip", the plugin installer will create
a directory "NewPlugin" and extract all files into
it.
Normally your installation package should include these files:
- the setting file - setting.ini
- the start file (optional)
- the return file (optional)
You may download the sample file
to test the installation package.
Note:
After the plugin installer extracted all files into the plugin
directory, it will run "install.bat" if it
found this file under your plugin directory.
So if your plugin need to register some OCX of DLL files before
it works, you may create a .bat file "install.bat"
for registering them. Then compress all OCX, DLL files and "install.bat"
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