How to Create Setup Floppy Disks for Viewer Title

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How To Make Setup Floppy Disks

1. Read pages 13-8 through the end of Chapter 13 in the Multimedia Viewer "Authoring Guide." You will need to do everything described in the book and you will also need to make some additional modifications.
2. As noted on page 13-9 of the "Authoring Guide," copy the contents of \MVPUBKIT\MVSAMPLE\PROGSAMP\SETUP\USA to the home directory of your title. Do not copy the folder \BLDCUI.
3. Decide which files will go on which floppy disks. The files that you just copied from the \SETUP\USA directory must go on the first setup disk. The rest of the files can be divided in any order among the remaining floppy disks.
4. Edit your copy of the TITLE.INF file. You don't need to modify the [Default File Settings] and the [System Files], or you can modify them as described in the "Authoring Guide."
   
   
   1. Modify the [Source Media Descriptions] section of TITLE.INF. See pages 13-12 to 13-13 of the "Authoring Guide" for more detailed information.
      
      You will need to write one line for each setup disk that you need. Each parameter in a line needs to be in quotation marks. The first parameter is the disk number. The second parameter is the title for that disk. The third parameter needs to contain the exact filename of one file that will go on that setup disk. When your user is prompted to insert a specific disk, then the setup program verifies that the correct disk has been inserted by looking for the file that is specified in the third parameter. The fourth parameter should be a period because your setup files should all be in one folder on your hard drive before you create the setup disks.

            [Source Media Descriptions]
            "#", "<Name of Disk>", "<name of one of the files on this disk>", "."
            "1", "Employee Handbook Setup Disk 1", "setup.exe", "."
            "2", "Employee Handbook Setup Disk 2", "w_2form.bmp", "."
            "3", "Employee Handbook Setup Disk 3", "happyemp.bmp","."
      								

   2. Modify the [Installed Title Files] section of TITLE.INF. In this section, you need to list every file that will go on the setup disks. The only parameters that are required are the disk_number, filename, file_date, and file_size. The file_version parameter is optional. Pages 13-13 to 13-15 of the "Authoring Guide" have more detailed information on this section.

            [Installed Title Files]
            <disk #>,<filename>,,,,<date>,,,,,,,,,,<file size>,,,,<file_version>,
            2, gallery.mvb,,,,1993-10-07,,,,,,,,,,1295392,,,,2.10,
            2, ibm_logo.dib,,,,1993-10-07,,,,,,,,,,1248,,,,,
            3, bigvideo.avi,,,,1992-02-15,,,,,,,,,,1093433,,,,4.00,
            3, catsdogs.wav,,,,1993-03-28,,,,,,,,,,39482,,,,,
      								

Instead of from a Floppy Disk or CD

1. Modify the TITLE.MST file. In the first section of the .MST file, there is a list of GLOBAL variables. Add the following line to the bottom of that list:

   GLOBAL szTitleDir$

2. Locate the following line in the .MST file (located near the end).

              CreateProgmanItem ProgmanGroup$, ProgmanItem$, "mviewer2.exe " +
         MakePath(GetSymbolValue("STF_SRCDIR"), MVBFileName$ + ".MVB"), "",
         cmoOverwrite
   						

   Change the CreateProgmanItem() call above to the following:

              CreateProgmanItem ProgmanGroup$, ProgmanItem$, "mviewer2.exe " +
         MakePath(szTitleDir$, MVBFileName$ + ".MVB"), "", cmoOverwrite