InstallConstruct 3.2 InstallConstruct v 3.2 is a developer's dream! Douglas Smith
If you are a developer and need to put together an install routine to distribute your packages and don’t have a lot of time to do it, you need InstallConstruct by Pacific Gold Coast Corp., the same company that brings you TurboSFX, TurboZip, and TurboBrowser. With InstallConstruct you can develop install routines that will make your product installations a snap. InstallConstruct's user-friendly expanding wizard system makes creating a Windows 3.1, 95, 98, or NT Package, Installer and Uninstaller easy, with intuitive step-by-step procedures. InstallConstruct, unlike other Installer and Setup programs, does not require programming background; nor does it require you to learn any application-specific language. InstallConstruct creates Setup Wizard and HTML-type installations, while you are creating your setup routine; each step during the creation of a project is automatically saved as a package script file (*.adx). These script files not only spare you the repetitive task of creating or updating similar packages manually, they also support command line unattended batch processing, so these packages can be created automatically! It would be easy to confuse InstallConstruct with TurboSFX, since there many similarities, but the truth is that there are major differences.
InstallConstruct is, in many ways, much more robust than TurboSFX. Briefly, InstallConstruct creates complete packages and stand-alone setup routines, setup wizards, uninstallers, and HTML-based Internet Component Downloads. It can also run others' setup routines. InstallConstruct is a complete Installer program. By contrast, TurboSFX creates Self-extractors as the file delivery front end, which can run multiple setup routines and programs and provide multiple-password protections, but it does not create Setup Wizards, Installers, and Uninstallers. TurboSFX distributes single or multiple programs in compressed self-extracting form and runs the respective Installer routines. For example, if you have a program that already has a Setup Wizard created, you can use TurboSFX to create the distribution front end. Or if you have two programs, or one program with two different versions, or in two different languages, you can use InstallConstruct to build each of the full installation routines, Setup Wizards, and Uninstallers, and then use TurboSFX to create the front-end manager so your recipients can install just the components desired or permitted by the passwords provided.
