Liberty BASIC Workshop Help

PACKAGING WIZARD

The Packaging Wizard makes it easy to gather all files needed for a program's distribution. It first prompts for a TKN for the program to be packaged. If no TKN is chosen, the Packaging Wizard will not open.

Once a TKN is chosen, the wizard will search for the needed runtime files in the path for the chosen version of liberty.exe. Change or set this path in the Options dialog, if necessary. All runtime DLL's and a copy of the runtime engine will be added to the list automatically. Remove files by dragging them out of the Package list. Add files by dragging them into the Package list. Be sure to include all dependency files such as bitmaps, wavs and text files that are required by the program.

Once all needed filenames are displayed in the Package list, click the OKAY button to package the application. (Cancel will cancel the operation.) A directory called "Package" will be created as a subdirectory of the directory that contains the TKN. All files will be copied into this folder. The runtime engine will be renamed from run.exe to match the name of the TKN. If the TKN is called "myprog.tkn", then the runtime engine will be named "myprog.exe".

Icon

There is a textbox to hold the name of the icon to be used in the runtime engine. If this box is left empty, no icon will be embedded. If the filename in the box cannot be found, or if the icon is not a 16-color icon, no icon will be embedded. The icon textbox can be typed into, or the filename of the desired icon can be dragged there from the file listbox. When the package is created, the icon will be embedded in the runtime engine automatically.

Optional: all files in the package folder can be placed into a ZIP archive if the "Zip files in package folder" box is checked in the Packaging Wizard.

Optional: A custom installation program can be created to install Liberty BASIC applications on computers. See Installation Program.