VB3 How to Change the Setup Application Name in SETUP1.EXE

- Standard and Professional Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic

  programming system for Windows, version 3.0

SUMMARY

The Setup Wizard in Visual Basic version 3.0 creates SETUP1.EXE that when executed displays a blue background with white letters that say: "<EXE NAME> Setup," where <EXE NAME> is the name of your application. This article explains how to change that message to something other than the default.

MORE INFORMATION

To change the display of <EXE NAME>, follow these steps:

1. Run the Setup Wizard as you normally would to create installation disks.

2. Start Visual Basic and load the project SETUP1A.MAK (The Setup Wizard created this project in the C:\VB\SETUPKIT\SETUP1 directory).

3. In the General Declarations section of SETUP1A.FRM, change the value of constant APPNAME:

   Const APPNAME = "<Whatever you want to put here>"

4. From the File menu, choose Make EXE to create the file SETUP1.EXE.

5. Exit to MS-DOS.

6. Copy and compress the file SETUP1.EXE to your distribution disk.

   C:\VB\SETUPKIT\KITFILES\COMPRESS -r SETUP1.EXE A:\

   This will copy over the old SETUP1.EX_ that was created on the distribution disk by the Setup Wizard.