Beyond installing
In the two last articles, I showed how to build an installer with install4j for Sweet Home 3D, then improve it with various options. But a program lives, and more and more users are used to getting program updates automatically. As install4j includes an auto-update feature, I'm going to use it to update Sweet Home 3D when a new version is released. Finally, I'll provide all the nice options that install4j offers for Mac OS X and Linux users by creating a cross platform installer.More installation options with install4j
Last week, I explained how to build an installer with install4j for Sweet Home 3D, that would behave as the one distributed on the web site of the program.
But Sweet Home 3D and install4j provide some options that could be nice to offer to end users at installation time like:
My first try with install4j
A tutorial for beginnersThis tutorial shows the various features offered by install4j 5.0 through the step by step configuration of an installer for Sweet Home 3D, a free open source Java program (so you can reproduce these steps if you want to).