If you make an installer that puts Clickteam product DLLs in the Windows directory, please don't remove them when I uninstall your game. It may come as a surprise, but people on this site actually use Clickteam's products to create games and apps, and the removal of said DLLs is quite inconvenient. Thank you.
"Omg. Where did they get the idea to not use army guys? Are they taking drugs?" --Tim Schafer on originality in videogames
doesn't work better for me. I'd rather have one dll for all games than one for each seperate one
"Say you're hanging from a huge cliff at the top of mt. everest and a guy comes along and says he'll save you, and proceeds to throw religious pamphlets at you while simultaniously giving a sermon." - Dustin G
The reason why it works much better is because there are different versions of the DLL, so changing the version (i.e. using an older one) could result in SERIUS BUGZORZ and glitches.
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Even if it was an executable, you'd still need the DLL files. Personally, I prefer to use installers that place them there for decent games.
Not everyone's smart enough to know how to copy & paste a DLL file into a Windows system directory. And some of those who know how to would be scared to, thanks to that big scary Windows message.
No sarcasm intended there. Well, not if your audience is outside the Click Community, at least.
Disclaimer: Any sarcasm in my posts will not be mentioned as that would ruin the purpose. It is assumed that the reader is intelligent enough to tell the difference between what is sarcasm and what is not.
just get PEBundle. that packs DLLs inside EXEs for you
"Say you're hanging from a huge cliff at the top of mt. everest and a guy comes along and says he'll save you, and proceeds to throw religious pamphlets at you while simultaniously giving a sermon." - Dustin G
Actually, I really, really don't like it when each program copies crap into the Windows system folders. Often, when you try to remove a program, much of this crap is left behind. Thank god click games don't write to the windows registry... unless you use that evil extension, of course. >.<
It's not evil - it just resizes itself so large that you can't click anything in the Frame Editor, but it can't help that. It's a 'special' extension, that's all.
Most apps don't write to the registry, but a LOT of games dump files on root C:\, in the Windows directory, etc. etc. and those files are never uninstalled (or even have an uninstaller). So every now and then I have to go through my computer's directories cleaning out all the crap that apps put there.
appdrive$ + appdir$ - Would this retrieve the application's folder location? Certainly easier than using the // and ../appname, or whatever it was that I fooled around with.
Kris <Could you get PEBundle to work? I tried to bundle a couple of games -separatelly of course- and when i ran the bundled exe I only got 'this is not an aplication file' errors. I tried all options on the checkboxes for all files and nothing, any hint?
if you get autoit, ( http://autoitscript.com ) then jsut do a fileinstall to a temp folder, for the exe, and one for the dll, then delete both when the process "game.exe" is terminated or whatever name
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