[lokisetup] Multi CD's/DVD directions ?

[James Munn]

Any idea where I can get the VCDK binary from ?

- Jim

On 11/28/06, Ryan C. Gordon <icculus at icculus.org> wrote:
>
> > Thanks again Ryan, the installer is working nicely now actually works
> > great. I still have to do some changes and tweaks, then I will post it
> > for download. Just one more quick question, how do I get the installer
> > prompt for the or a CD Key ? I know this can be done but have seen it
> > done that often. Thanks again....
>
> This is a bit hacky and wasn't ever documented, I don't think...it was
> wedged in there for UT2003 on the Mac, and UT2004 on Linux.
>
> In the "install" tag, add a "cdkey" attribute with the path where the CD
> key will be written:
>
>      <!-- Mac version has this... -->
>      cdkey="Unreal Tournament 2004.app/System/cdkey"
>
> The installer will prompt for it. If there is a binary called "vcdk" in
> the same place as the setup binary, it will run that (with argv[1] set
> to the key the user entered) to validate the key. If the vcdk process
> returns zero, the key is invalid and the installer will prompt the user
> again. If it returns non-zero, it's valid and life goes on...the key is
> written to the file specified.
>
> --ryan.
>
>
>


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