Pilot Catapult is the first installation software, developed specifically for the needs of Palm Computing platform. It is small, robust and easy to use. Designed to cover the most common cases of installing PalmOS software, it does not pretend to be the ultimate solution, but appears to be the most optimized one. It was developed after two years in the Palm software development business and with more than 10 titles behind us. We know what a Palm customer needs and we help you deliver it.
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Features:
| |  | Integrated shell running on Microsoft Windows 9x/NT/2000 operating system
| | | Produces one compressed, self-extracting executable file for Microsoft Windows 9x/NT/2000 operating system
| | | Silent preparation for PalmOS files installation during next HotSync process
| | | Provides End User License Agreement (EULA) signing requirement if desired
Quick Help during installation option (ability for the users to request more information about the product prior its installing)
| | | Multiple accounts installation option (when several Palm accounts are present on the same host)
| | | Automatic program group and shortcuts generation
| | | Small executable size
| | | Product documentation
| | | Conduits installation
| | | Built-in component installation support (user can specify which packets to be installed)
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— What's New! —————
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| | - New: Component groups
Allows alternate components from within a group to be selected and installed. Each group must have one and only one selected component at a time except for group 0, which can have multiple
selections. Developers can specify the minimal required number of components from group 0 in order for the installation to proceed. - New: Component descriptions
Allows each component to be assigned a description, which will be displayed during installation
providing better help to the user. - New: Target media for PDA files.
Developers can now choose between RAM, CARD or CARD, RAM (attempting in
order). Make sure to read the manual for details. - New:
Faster decompression
Significant speed improvement has been achieved by replacing the
compression/decompression engine in the SFX with a new, gZIP based one. - New: UI improvements
Some common UI operations have been improved, e.g. double-click on the component
property window, enabling/disabling appropriate windows etc. - New:
Customizable SFX executable icon
You can now specify the icon to be assigned to the self-extracting executable
for the project!
Note: This feature requires Windows NT or above, it will not work under 98
or ME as the Windows kernel lacks support for resource management. - New:
Windows CE install packaging automation through the command line build
(limited, preliminary release, not officially supported)
A new command line option (-t wince) has been added along with a new
client installer module, use the switch for a simple wrapper around one or
more CAB files that need to be passed to the ActiveSync's InstApp application
to be scheduled for installation. The current desktop installer module does not provide any other functionality beyond this one, i.e. it is only good
for installing WinCE applications, but not desktop applications and/or readme
files. Support for these will likely be added to future Catapult releases.
Note: This feature requires Windows NT or above, it will not work under 98
or ME as the Windows kernel lacks support for resource management. - New: InstallDir project variable in the post-install launch file specification
Register the your installation with your conduit now if you want!
Catapult will now process project variables and even launch files with arguments
for the post-install application! - Fixed: Installation's temporary files
now removed
Catapult is finally cleaning after itself when run. It never caused a problem
to leave the temporary data in the temp folder, but it just wasn't
right...well now it is! - Fixed: Incorrect "project has changed"
message
Catapult will now allow you to open and close a project without having to
confirm changes if you have not done any. Note, however, that the first time
you open a project with the new Catapult it will still need to update it and
hence ask once! - Fixed: Bug in shared component counter decreasing upon uninstasllation
- Fixed: Installer logistics
Catapult intelligence and wording now improved to allow simple Windows-only
installations, the program will not need or complain about missing Palm
Desktop installation if there are no Palm or Conduits files to be installed - Fixed: Command-line builds
Command-line build of component projects with relative paths is now
functioning, the limitation is that the components have to be at least at the
same level where the master project is - Fixed: Default title
"PalmOS(TM)" is now updated to "Palm OS®" on the first screen for
every language, more space is now available for the head line, which displays
the product title
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