[DEV] Installation options

Hairy · 2009-02-21, 10:48 AM

I was wondering if it's possible for the installation process to load a file, like the currenttheme.xml, during installation and load the relevant graphics and formatting into the skin folder from the plugin resource folder.

Given than we now have the skin and plugin in the same package there is quite a bit of file duplication and if it was possible to do the above then we could remove all those duplicated files from the skin folder and reduce the overall package from approx 11mb to 5/6mb, (and it would come in even more useful for the Hi-Def version, going from approx 30mb to 15/18mb)

McBainUK · 2009-02-21, 10:56 AM

It's possible. How did you calculate the 5/6mb saving!?

Hairy · 2009-02-21, 11:32 AM

Based really on the size of the "_TaskImages" folder (by far the largest part of the skin folder). In CS-SD it's currently almost 5mb and I estimate that CS-HD would be close to 12/15mb.

It's a point though, we could achieve the vast majority of that file size reduction by loading just the taskimages list (from the SkinPluginConfig.xml), I guesstimate that the other options wouldn't top 1mb for the SD version and 3mb for the HD version.

McBainUK · 2009-02-21, 11:40 AM

Saving a few MB on the installer is always worth it in my book. All that would be required is to ensure CurrentTheme.xml reflects the theme we want to install by default, and then run SkinPluginHelper.exe (with no command line options) at the end of the install process.

Do you agree fatman_do?

Fatman_do · 2009-02-21, 09:21 PM

Yes we could do that. That would also be a good thing for additional theme downloads as well.

McBainUK · 2009-02-22, 12:16 AM

themechanges.xml would need to be set also.

McBainUK · 2009-02-25, 01:51 PM

McBainUK Wrote:It's possible. How did you calculate the 5/6mb saving!?

Just tried this. As the installer compresses the files it's more like 200k saved Sad

I still think it's a good idea though as it simplify how to distribute and apply a default theme. Testing things out now...

Fatman_do · 2009-02-25, 02:03 PM

Must be due to redundancy picked up by the compression algorithm.

Hairy · 2009-02-25, 02:33 PM

McBainUK Wrote:Just tried this. As the installer compresses the files it's more like 200k saved

Was that with the actually graphics removed from the "Community Skin SVN\shared\skin\pvrx2" folder ???. It's gotta be able do better than 200k. If we remove 5/6mb from the folder it really should reflect in the package ???

McBainUK · 2009-02-25, 02:35 PM

Hairy Wrote:Was that with the actually graphics removed from the "Community Skin SVN\shared\skin\pvrx2" folder ???.

Yes. Current Community-SD_4x.exe size is 10,850KB.

Possibly Related Threads…
Thread		Author	Replies	Views	Last Post
	[DEV] Plugin: Text Options	Hairy	22	6,556	2009-03-06, 04:42 PM Last Post: Fatman_do