PutuPing (a free ping software)

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Thanks I am not sure what happened but like I said I ran setup.bat as administrator in C:\Ping (where I extracted the files) and could see that it was copying a bunch of DLLs and other files from who knows where. The installation took a very long time to complete.


When I run it now it wants to replace those files. See here:

Any ideas?

Well it's a good thing all those answers are "no."

@giggity Your setup.bat should be much more specific when copying those files (include exact source file), or just use a proper installer package like Nullsoft installer.

 

[Park@82]

Well it's a good thing all those answers are "no."

Yes I manually selected No for the screenshot. But with the first installation it ran trough like there was almost nothing to replace. Here and there it did ask to replace things like notepad.exe but I also said No to them.

 

[Park@82]

All the setup.bat does is this:
xcopy /E * %windir%
That copies everything from the current directory to C:\Windows. Make sure that the PutuPing install is completely separate from any other files.

Its on its own in C:\Ping\putuping0.8\install

I just checked and if I Run CMD as admin and CD to C:\Ping\putuping0.8\install then Run "xcopy /E * %windir%" it copies the files. But when I run the bat file as admin it copies a bunch of other stuff as in the screenshot.

 

[.QQ.]

Sorry for the original post to my free server being awful. Please let me know if these mirrors are better

Why not put your app up on github or similar.

 

[giggity]

Well it's a good thing all those answers are "no."

@giggity Your setup.bat should be much more specific when copying those files (include exact source file), or just use a proper installer package like Nullsoft installer.

I'll use a self-extrating 7zip archive.

Yes I manually selected No for the screenshot. But with the first installation it ran trough like there was almost nothing to replace. Here and there it did ask to replace things like notepad.exe but I also said No to them.

Its on its own in C:\Ping\putuping0.8\install

I just checked and if I Run CMD as admin and CD to C:\Ping\putuping0.8\install then Run "xcopy /E * %windir%" it copies the files. But when I run the bat file as admin it copies a bunch of other stuff as in the screenshot.

Still really strange. With a self-extracting archive, you shouldn't run into this problem. (working on it now)

Why not put your app up on github or similar.

Github requires open source, I believe. I'd rather keep it closed source for the time being. Besides, I hate git on Windows (personal preference). Would be great if I were using Linux.

 

[giggity]

Aight it no longer uses a .bat file. Now uses a sfx 7-zip archive. Just enter C:\Windows as your installation directory. Note that %windir% doesn't work with this for some reason.

 

[giggity]

Uploaded version 0.9.

Changes:
-Now you can change between bar and line graphs.
-Entering an incorrect value no longer just crashes.
-Graphs are more readable.
-Ability to limit by time.
-Ability to limit by ping count.
-I think there was something else I forgot

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Nice work