topic DevKit Installer features in Archicad C++ API

DevKit Installer features

Andras Babos — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 09:31:16 GMT

Hi All,

I'm just about to rewrite the API DevKit Installer. I'd be interested in how many of you have ever used the
a) repair functionality
b) modify functionality
of the current installer. (You know, if you start the uninstaller it starts with a page offering 3 possibilities: repair/modify/remove.)
I'm asking because the new installer I'm planning to use doesn't offer this functionality out-of-the-box, so if there's no demand for the repair/modify functionality, I'm willing to let it go. Also modify is easier to implement than repair, so if there's demand for modify, but repair seems unnecessary, then so be it.

Regards:
Andras.

Re: DevKit Installer features

Ralph Wessel — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:52:27 GMT

Andras wrote:
Hi All,
I'm just about to rewrite the API DevKit Installer. I'd be interested in how many of you have ever used the
a) repair functionality
b) modify functionality
of the current installer.

Andras,

I've only ever installed the DevKit. A situation where I needed repair or modify has never arisen.

Regards,

Ralph.

Re: DevKit Installer features

Karl Ottenstein — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:52:27 GMT

Ralph wrote:
I've only ever installed the DevKit. A situation where I needed repair or modify has never arisen.

Same here. Thanks for asking, Andras.

Karl

Re: DevKit Installer features

TomWaltz — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 02:55:07 GMT

Same here. I just install it.

Re: DevKit Installer features

Akos Somorjai — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:02:20 GMT

Same situation here )

Akos

Re: DevKit Installer features

TomWaltz — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:04:41 GMT

Maybe it's because I'm on Apple and don't have to deal witg VS.NET or the WinRegistry, but I'd be just as happy with a big ZIP file as a real installer.

Re: DevKit Installer features

Andras Babos — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:35:41 GMT

Umm... Of course I'm only talking about the Windows installer. The Mac version stays the same bundle-type installer.

Andras.

Re: DevKit Installer features

TomWaltz — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:09:03 GMT

Oh, sure, favor the WINDOWS people! 😉

Re: DevKit Installer features

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:23:52 GMT

It is nice to be able to integrate the docs with msdn help, but a stand alone program or instructions on how to do it would be more than enough.

I don't suppose anyone knows how/if I can integrate 6.1 docs into the visual studio .net help functionality? Since upgrading visual studio I can't press F1 on api functions/types to get help about them.

I tried re-running the installer with the repair option after reading this, but it didn't help and also broke my 2001 msdn collection file.

Re: DevKit Installer features

Andras Babos — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:46:54 GMT

adambutler wrote:
I don't suppose anyone knows how/if I can integrate 6.1 docs into the visual studio .net help functionality? Since upgrading visual studio I can't press F1 on api functions/types to get help about them.

I tried re-running the installer with the repair option after reading this, but it didn't help and also broke my 2001 msdn collection file.

Seems like your MS Help architecture was not updated along with your Visual Studio. (BTW, I do hope you're using VS .NET 2003, and not VS .NET!) Between Visual Studio 6.0 and Visual Studio .NET MS also changed their HTML Help architecture, and the two are incompatible with each other. Please check the following registry key: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\HTMLHelp\2.0. If the key does not exist, then you're out of luck as you cannot integrate the GS help files into a help architecture you do not have. Please clarify this before I go into further details.

Andras.

Re: DevKit Installer features

Andras Babos — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:47:56 GMT

TomWaltz wrote:
Oh, sure, favor the WINDOWS people! 😉

BTW, what's your problem with the bundle installer?

Andras.

Re: DevKit Installer features

TomWaltz — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:58:41 GMT

Andras wrote:
TomWaltz wrote:
Oh, sure, favor the WINDOWS people! 😉
BTW, what's your problem with the bundle installer?

Andras.

Nothing really, just that it requires an actual "Install" and Administrator password. Does it actually install anything to the system? To me it seems like it would be simpler to just have a big ZIP file.

Re: DevKit Installer features

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 22:57:54 GMT

That registry key exists

I have visual studio 6.0 and visual studio .net 2003.

Before getting .net 2003 I installed the msdn 2001. The 6.1 devkit was integrated into this until I ran the fix option - I now get the error 'cannot open the file c:\........\2001OCT\1033\MSDN130.col'.

Are you saying it should integrate into .net 2003? If its not simple to fix I can just uninstall and reinstall.

Re: DevKit Installer features

Andras Babos — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:45:14 GMT

adambutler wrote:
That registry key exists

I have visual studio 6.0 and visual studio .net 2003.

Before getting .net 2003 I installed the msdn 2001. The 6.1 devkit was integrated into this until I ran the fix option - I now get the error 'cannot open the file c:\........\2001OCT\1033\MSDN130.col'.

Are you saying it should integrate into .net 2003? If its not simple to fix I can just uninstall and reinstall.

OK, I think I've got it. So you installed the API DevKit on a Visual Studio 6.0 and integrated the help into MSDN 2001. Then you installed VS.NET 2003, and when you didn't have integrated API help in it you ran the installer with the repair option, which in turn said 'cannot open the file c:\........\2001OCT\1033\MSDN130.col', right?
If this is the case then reinstalling should help. (I think you do not even have the new version help files on your computer - check for *.HxI and *.HxS in your DevKit folder - so I cannot suggest you any other way.)

HTH:
Andras.

Re: DevKit Installer features

Anonymous — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 07:52:57 GMT

I got a catastropic falure when uninstalling the devkit, then used the modify option to re-install. Then I change the vs.net enviroment option help/prefred collection to 'visual studio .net 2003 combined help collection' and it now works