Installer/Launcher Question

[James Norman]

I'm packaging a modified ImageJ for our application and I would like to
distribute it and launch it in a similar fashion to ImageJ.  I've never used
installers before and I really like the ImageJ install process, what
installer does ImageJ use, is the script to package it openly available?

Also, what does it use to create the windows executable, I'm looking at
Launch4j but am not positive that's what ImageJ is using.

Thanks for any help.

-james

[Wayne Rasband]

> I'm packaging a modified ImageJ for our application and I would like to
> distribute it and launch it in a similar fashion to ImageJ.  I've
> never used
> installers before and I really like the ImageJ install process, what
> installer does ImageJ use, is the script to package it openly
> available?

The Windows installer is created using Inno Setup:

     http://www.innosetup.com/isinfo.php

The installer script is at:

     http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/download/tools/ImageJ.iss

> Also, what does it use to create the windows executable, I'm looking at
> Launch4j but am not positive that's what ImageJ is using.

The Windows launcher (Image.exe) is a custom Delphi Pascal program
written by George_Silva:

     http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/download/win32/ImageJLauncher.txt

The ImageJ.exe source code is at:

     http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/download/tools/launcher/

-wayne

> Thanks for any help.
>
> -james
>