created the topic: what is Tarma ExpertInstall 3 and its usage?
[glow=red,2,300]Stand-alone and MSI-based installers for professional developers.
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Create Tarma native and MSI installers from a single project. Use the predefined dialogs and actions or roll your own. The possibilities are endless, the installers fast and compact.
* Creates Windows Installer (MSI) packages and Tarma native v3 packages
* Includes MSI bootstrapper
* .Net support
* Small (only 85 KB, Tarma native v3) and fast installers
* Wide range of installation items
* Add-on and update installers also supported
* All installer screens fully editable, or create your own
* Total control over all installation actions and installer features
* Unicode through-and-through (MSI is ANSI based)
* No scripting
* Extensive preflight checks catch problems before you deploy your product
Introduction
Welcome to Tarma ExpertInstall. Tarma ExpertInstall helps you to create installation (“Setup”) programs for your own software product. Its major features are:
Support for Tarma native installers and Windows Installers
You can create Tarma native installers, Windows (MSI) installers, or both, from a single project.
Fully editable installer dialogs and dialog sequences
Using the built-in dialog editor, you can completely redefine any and all dialogs in the installation wizard, add any dialogs that you need, or even remove all of them completely.
Fully editable installer action sequences
You have complete control over the installer’s actions, even to the point (for Tarma native installers – MSI has its own requirements) that it’s not an installer at all, but, for example, a CD-ROM AutoRun menu application.
Comprehensive language and localization support
Virtually any piece of text that is visible to the user can be localized, including, but not limited to: dialogs, messages, file and folder names, shortcut titles, and registry data. You can build a single installer that includes all languages (Tarma native only), or separate installers for each language (both MSI and Tarma native) from a single project.
Unicode through-and-through
The Tarma ExpertInstall development environment, its project files, and the Tarma native installation database and Setup program are Unicode-based from the ground up to ensure that all localization remains intact. (For Windows 95, 98, and Me, an ANSI-based Setup program is supplied, which uses the same Unicode installation database. MSI installation databases are ANSI-based and use code pages instead of Unicode internally.)
Feature- and component-based installation
Following the MSI model, features are pieces of functionality that the user can select for installation in a tree-like structure, while components are groups of installation items defined by the developer that must be installed or removed together.
Add-on and update installers
Add-on and update installers allow you to install and remove updates and add-on packages separately from the main application’s original installation, while still allowing the main application to be uninstalled together with all its dependants. (Tarma native installer only.)
Import MSI databases and merge modules
Tarma ExpertInstall can import MSI databases and merge modules, and use the result for both Tarma native and MSI installers.
Wide range of installation items
You can install files, folders, shortcuts, registry keys and values, INI file values, environment variables, file extensions, COM and DCOM classes and servers (including ActiveX controls), type libraries, and services, with a comprehensive range of options.
Small and fast
The Tarma native installer is small (only 75 KB), fast, and has excellent compression, making your installation packages as compact as possible, thus saving download time and disk space.
Extensive preflight checking
More than 450 different preflight checks spot potential problems before you deploy your installation.
Intuitive development environment
An easy to use development environment with clearly subdivided project sections and pages, plus extensive help and toolbars.
Reference: www.tarma.com/support/tin3/0000-welcome.htm
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