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- Overview
- How to?
- Defining the type of setup to generate
- Generating a standard setup
- Generating a setup with update
WDInst: choose the type of installation to generate
WDInst allows you to create several types of setup: - Standard installation: recommended for single-user applications.
All the files required by the application are installed on the client computers.
When updating the application, the update program must be run on each user computer. - Network installation with automatic updates: recommended for multi-station applications (used by several users simultaneously).
This type of setup allows you to:- automatically manage the updates of the application.
- find out the characteristics of the users connected to the application at a given time, via the "WDADMINEXE" program installed on the server. For more details, see Remote control of WINDEV executables.
- configure the location of the application files. For example:
- Install all the application files on the server.
- Install the database on the server and the files required to run the application (".EXE", ".WDL", ".DLL", etc.) on each user computer.
- Installation of part of the database on the server and another part on each user workstation. The files required to run the application (".EXE", ".WDL", ".DLL", etc.) are also installed on each client computer.
- Installation from a Private Store: recommended for grouping applications used within a company. This type of setup allows:
- Access to application setups through a portal.
- Automatic application updates.
- Compact installation: The size of the installation program generated is optimized for downloading over the Internet.
Note: By default, the installation generated by WINDEV corresponds to a standard installation. Defining the type of setup to generate The type of setup to generate is specified in WDInst. To start WDInst, go to the "Tools" tab, "Utilities" group and click "WDInst". The setup program creation wizard can also be used to define the type of setup to generate. Generating a standard setup To generate a standard setup: - Select "Setup settings .. Wizard".
- Check "Standard setup".
Generating a setup with update To generate a setup with update: - Select "Setup settings .. Wizard".
- Check "Network setup with automatic update".
- Select the reference executable for the network update.
| |  | Principle of network update
To take into account the modifications made to an application (windows, source code, analysis, ...), you must recreate the executable and install an update on the user computers.
For a network application, the reference executable is used to find out whether an update is required. Whenever the application is started on the user computer, the version of the application executable and the version of the reference executable (found on the server) are compared. The application update is proposed if these versions are different. The management of versions is presented in details in the following paragraph. |
4. The version number of the application to install is automatically retrieved by WDInst. This number was specified when creating the application executable. Enter the version number of the application found on the user computers from which the update will not be mandatory. | | | Mandatory update/Optional update
Installing the update:- will be mandatory if the version of the application installed on the users' computers is lower than the latest compatible version.
- will be optional if the version of the application installed on the users' computers is equal to or higher than the latest compatible version.
Attention: In the case of a network update with automatic modification of data files, installation of the update is mandatory. |
5. To configure the update of your application more precisely, click the "Advanced options" button. You will have the ability to: - specify the modification history.
- configure the options for "Remote control of the WINDEV executables".
- modify the conditions for applying the update
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