Things are gettin' serious :)

[ShawnBaxe]

Many months have passed since my return to the AmigaOS. I had enough time to get back into development for AmigaOS. Today I've contacted a local Amiga club. If everything works, I'll team up with them and start developing for the greates OS ever! My idea for the first project is a tool which makes it easy to create Installer scripts from scratch...at least a rough skeleton which can be edited by hand. I think such a tool would save precious time for any software developer out there. My idea is a multi-tabbed GUI which takes parameters like filenames, the gradient-values for the v44 installer which supports gradient backgrounds, appname and such stuff. A friend of mine came up with the idea to develop a wizard like found on windows which takes you to the ready-to-run installer step by step. I'm not sure which idea is better. Perhaps both of them in one? Any suggestions?

[ShawnBaxe]

An AROS port is possible. At this time I can't promise anything, but as far as I know, AROS' GUI system is similar to MUI, isn't it. I'll try to develop the code for file I/O in plain C (or maybe C++ cause classes are a nice way to implement such stuff), so it would be easy to port it. The only thing which would have to be rewritten would be the GUI part. As soon as the app is finished, I'll think about porting it. Btw. is the Installer available for AROS? Otherwise such a port wouldn't make sense.

[ShawnBaxe]

Thanks for your support

I've decided to use StormGCC for development to make sure the code is as much portable as possible. I think it's a good choice. I'll code the GUI by hand, because ReActor doesn't work that well.

@Trev: Your template work with the v44-Installer? If it does, would you contribute it to my project? I think I could use it in whole or at least some parts of it to make the "InstallBuilder" ready for complex installations
You can send it to: kaya.dogan@web.de if you like.
You'll be in the credits then

[ShawnBaxe]

@Trev

Thanks a lot The code will have a freeware license which allows the user to change/improve the code as long as all copyright information and credits are left intact and as long as I get notified if anyone wants to publish the software on Aminet. I don't want to have 10 completely different versions on Aminet. So the code will be published under the above terms. The binaries will be freeware, because I think that the Amiga needs good freeware. I don't want to make money of it. The Amiga-spirit is all that counts for me...