AviSynth installer

Finally I got some time to look at how installers work. I used nullsoft's installer, and it does the job very well. It's very easy to use. You select where you want it to put the documentation, press ok, and AviSynth is installed - No need to fiddle with .reg-files anymore. If you already have defined a plugin directory, it will remember that, otherwise one is created for you (and registered). Links for documentation, Plugin-dir and uninstaller is created in your program menu. Beware, the uninstaller removes all traces of avisynth, so don't use it, unless you mean it :) Edit: Just made the uninstaller a bit more intelligent - it will not touch your plugin directory, if you have put files into it. - Completely removes all other directories created. - it creates a link for avisynth.org

Cool. Maybe I'm an oddball, but I'd prefer all the documentation in a separate subdirectory (like "docs" or "manual" or something). Putting the "filters" directory at the same level as "plugins" seems potentially confusing.

Well done.:D Now, are you going to relese 2.06?

@stickboy: It'll be pretty empty without them, but I do agree - it's confusing. @hakko: Probably - I do still have one unconfirmed report of an error in the Resize-functions, but everyone else seems to have a good working version. I'd like the installer tested a little more, before 2.06 - if you understand :)

Installer now puts documentation into /docs - new binary up (beware, same filename) Does anybody have a big problem with AviSynth removing the plugindir registry, when it is uninstalled. I could keep it, but on the other hand, I'd like AviSynth to clean up properly after itself, if the user wants to uninstall.

My vote: do not remove it. If I am just uninstalling to reintall a newer version I'm going to very annoyed to lose all my plugins!

@neuron2: I dun think he meant removing the contents, only the registry entry (sorry if my post sounded confusing in this matter)

@Belgabor Thank you for the clarification. I agree with you that it should be optional. Do I assume the installer also gives a way to define the plugins directory? The earlier post is a little ambiguous because it says "one is created for you".

Do I assume the installer also gives a way to define the plugins directory? Kind of. You determine the path where your new Avisynth folder should be created and it will add two subfolders there, one for docs and one for plugins. Klaus, thanks for another nice enhancement to AVS. It will definitely help to make it even more popular. The only very little thing I was missing in this tool is a success (failure resp.) message at the end of the installation procedure. This is quite common for installers and the less experienced user might be irritated if there is no feedback. KUT:cool:W! $

Made it, as you describe - now plugin pointer removal is optional, the log-screen remains, until the user presses ok, and some minor changes to error-handling.