>Bill, I have not had much need for IS but was concerned with all the talk of the problems developers were experiencing. I got this response from Joe Kaufman:
>
>Inno has nothing to do with InstallShield (maybe you just meant it was an alternative...). Inno
>is its own standalone setup-generating program that is free of charge for personal and commercial
>use. Here is a sample of a setup file in Inno that generates a self-extracting SETUP.EXE for a
>simple VFP project (one EXE, a doc file, and the VFP runtime):
>-----------------------------------------------
>[Setup]
>Compression=bzip/9
>OutputDir=\\ITCORP2\D\PACKAGE\DBSpy
>OutputBaseFilename=setup
>AlwaysCreateUninstallIcon=Yes
>AppName=DB Spy
>AppVerName=DB Spy Version 1.0
>AppCopyright=Copyright © 2001 American Agrisurance Inc.
>DefaultDirName={pf}\DBSpy
>DefaultGroupName=AmAg Apps
>Uninstallable=Yes
>UninstallDisplayName=DB Spy 1.0
>UninstallFilesDir={app}\uninst
>MinVersion=4,3.51
>
>[Files]
>Source: "dbspy.exe"; DestDir: "{app}"
>Source: "DB Spy.doc"; DestDir: "{app}"
>Source: "C:\WINNT\system32\VFP6R.DLL"; DestDir: "{sys}"
>Source: "C:\WINNT\system32\VFP6RENU.DLL"; DestDir: "{sys}"
>
>[Icons]
>Name: "{group}\DB Spy"; Filename: "{app}\dbspy.exe"; WorkingDir: "{app}"
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Check out the Inno site at: http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.htm
>for more information. It is a great tool, and the free price can't be beat! I am slowly getting
>developers here to start using it instead of the VFP setup Wizard...

I'm bought. Just downloaded it and got it up and running in just a couple of minutes. Thanks for this message, though - it just filled the blanks (just had to substitute the runtime locations for VFP7, add the two files needed for help, and that's it).

What wizard Inno has is quite enough, and the things are called their right names: I've had a bad case of ISLE not mentioning the word "menu" anywhere around the [startup] keyword, so I assumed it's the directory where setup is run from - wrong, it's the programs\startup in the windows menu. In Inno, no confusion about it, the help is short and straight to the point and I don't see anything important missing.

Inno, from now on.