• Standard setup: recommended for a single-user application.
  All the files required by the application are installed on the user computers.
  When updating the application, the update program must be run on each user computer.
• Network setup with automatic update: recommended for a multi-user application (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 Checking the WINDEV executables remotely.
  • configure the location of the application files. Some examples:
    • Installing all the application files on the server.
    • Installing the database on the server and the files required to run the application (".EXE", ".WDL", ".DLL", ...) on each user computer.
    • Installing part of database on the server and another part on each user computer. The files required to run the application (".EXE", ".WDL", ".DLL", ...) are also installed on each user computer.
• Compact setup: The size of the generated setup program is optimized in order to be downloaded from Internet.

Defining the type of setup to generate

Generating a standard setup

1. Select "Setup parameters .. Wizard".
2. Check "Standard setup".

Generating a setup with update

1. Select "Setup parameters .. Wizard".
2. Check "Network setup with automatic update".
3. 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 re-create 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.

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. Caution: For a network update with automatic modification of data files, installing the update must be mandatory.

• specify the modification history.
• configure the options for "Remote control of the WINDEV executables".
• modify the conditions for applying the update.