Instamaker

InstaMaker 0.5 - Create install programs easily!
This is the first of many updates, i hope! :D/> I was making a program and i wanted to have some "resources" so that the main program could run them without having it in the code. So i saw that there was a lot of files and really messy, so i created a simple installer(no internet connection or http need) to make it easy. The installer will unpack the files and save them in a folder and unpack the main program normaly, then the installer will create a uninstall program to easly delete all the file created by the installer.
I got some trouble and it was getting hard, but i finished it with no -visible- bugs.
Then i wonder if i could make it more simple and easy to make. And then i started working in InstaMaker, the program to create installers easily!

Features of InstaMaker:
-its easy to use
-create one single file to install multiple files without internet connection
-automatically create uninstall file wich uninstall all the files created by the installer
-has some options(so far, add a progress bar or not and installer name)

ScreenShots:

Spoiler

file:///C:/Users/Rodrigo%20Neves/Downloads/screenies/46ee2b99dea3490a3e14f2f6b1232df2.png

Bugs:
-sometimes, when asked if want to add more file to installer, the command doesn't work and asks again(not a big deal but working on fix)
-if no file is loaded or try to load a unexistent file it gives an error
-not a bug, but so far it don't suport capital letters commands
-please post a unknown bug that you experienced below

Incoming features:
>Already working on it:

• Folders suport(to load files in folders)
• Uninstaller with progress bar
• Commands: "dir()" to see the files without exiting the instamaker, and the "f()" to add a folder

>Maybe implemented:

• Http and pastebin connection
• GUI

Please remember to tell all the bugs you found, tell your ideas and help improve the code! Thanks :)/>


Download: pastebin get jNUrS2dt instamaker

Nice job!
At first, a bug :/

uninstall = fs.open("uninstall" , "a")
uninstall.write[[fs.delete("mw")
]]
uninstall.close()

At this part it errors: attempt to index ? (nil value)
and I have no idea why :blink:/>

Also to make your program more safe, don't use shell.run("clear").
Make a function which sets the cursor to pos 1, 1 and clears the screen.

Some people want to troll and make a program with the same name to do malicious things.

svdragster, on 07 August 2013 - 09:56 AM said:

Nice job!
At first, a bug :/

uninstall = fs.open("uninstall" , "a")
uninstall.write[[fs.delete("mw")
]]
uninstall.close()

At this part it errors: attempt to index ? (nil value)
and I have no idea why :blink:/>

Also to make your program more safe, don't use shell.run("clear").
Make a function which sets the cursor to pos 1, 1 and clears the screen.

Some people want to troll and make a program with the same name to do malicious things.

Ah thanks for reporting the bug and the sugestion! :D/> i really want to make that function but so far i am more focused in the program itself :P/>
About the bug… this may be caused by the instamaker tryed to open an file that does not exist, but as i can see the error is in the installer and not in the instamaker so this may just a conflict with that same error. I didn't get that error so maybe if you could tell the options and the files that you choosed i may figure out what happen :P/>
Sorry about my english and thanks for the replie :D/>

Actually append mode doesn't work anywhere :o/>

You should do the clear function right now I guess. You could just make the 4 line function and then do find + replace all the shell.runs to clear() :P/>


If this thing is ever gonna work or me I and support multiple folders I will definetly use it for my upcoming program!

svdragster, on 07 August 2013 - 11:37 AM said:

Actually append mode doesn't work anywhere :o/>

You should do the clear function right now I guess. You could just make the 4 line function and then do find + replace all the shell.runs to clear() :P/>


If this thing is ever gonna work or me I and support multiple folders I will definetly use it for my upcoming program!

great :D/> i will work on that right now

svdragster, on 07 August 2013 - 11:37 AM said:

Actually append mode doesn't work anywhere :o/>

You should do the clear function right now I guess. You could just make the 4 line function and then do find + replace all the shell.runs to clear() :P/>


If this thing is ever gonna work or me I and support multiple folders I will definetly use it for my upcoming program!

Already replaced the shell.run("clear") and the download link is updated, try the program :)/>

uninstall = fs.open("uninstall" , "a")
uninstall.write[[fs.delete("mw")
]]
uninstall.close()

Change fs.open(filename, "a") to fs.open(filename, "w") because it creates the file in write mode, but not in append mode, also, I never knew that doing filename.write[[fs.delete("mw")]] worked… interesting…

all right so the append mode isnt working because its the first file to be written? I mean if i change it to "w" it will delete all the content in the uninstall file and replace it by that and i dont want that :/

you could get all the contents of the file, store it, and write it into the file with the new stuf.

nicse4, on 07 August 2013 - 08:08 PM said:

I never knew that doing filename.write[[fs.delete("mw")]] worked… interesting…

I think it's just like " ", it works everywhere.

svdragster, on 08 August 2013 - 11:36 AM said:

you could get all the contents of the file, store it, and write it into the file with the new stuf.
-snip-

true, wouldn't be to hard to write up… If i wanted to I could probably get a function that does that if you needed…

That would be less than 10 lines.

Maybe… And sorry for the delay(i was on vocations) so any improvements or ideas?

Screenies? I might use this for my secret project I've been working on…

nutcase84, on 02 September 2013 - 07:26 PM said:

Screenies? I might use this for my secret project I've been working on…

Done!