BYOND now supports .exe's that don't need to install BYOND

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Dec 16 2009, 4:41 pm
No, I'm not lying. Read the new version's release notes.
Dec 16 2009, 4:43 pm
It works too! I uninstalled BYOND just to test it myself.
Dec 16 2009, 4:44 pm
BYOND needs to make a I-touch application, so I can play it while away from computer.
Dec 16 2009, 4:47 pm
Drehdog7 wrote:
BYOND needs to make a I-touch application, so I can play it while away from computer.

That's near impossible, just accept that it won't happen.
Dec 16 2009, 4:48 pm
Yup, I know it's impossible.
Dec 16 2009, 4:53 pm
Awesomez. :)
Dec 16 2009, 6:02 pm
Good to hear. I see someone disabled their nay link.
Dec 16 2009, 6:14 pm
Rip Nation wrote:
Good to hear. I see someone disabled their nay link.

Looks more like Candlejack attacked it.
Dec 16 2009, 7:54 pm
Finally! This is such great news (I found out here, before I read into it more).

Already using it for my game's community.
Dec 16 2009, 8:56 pm
Don't get your hopes up... The exe will still need to download the game's dmb and rsc files off the hub. -_-
Dec 16 2009, 9:11 pm
Tom said ID:731539

Basically, if there is a byond installation folder (which is generally the folder installed to "Program Files/BYOND") in the same directory as the EXE, the EXE will use that version of byond.exe instead of the installed version. This means that a user doesn't have to have BYOND installed if your distributable ZIP includes this folder. In a nutshell, the process to create such a distributable is:

1) For project test.dmb: Make EXE... set the url to something like file://test.dmb##guest

2) Download the [zip] file from the BYOND download page and unzip it in your test/ directory. This should create a byond/ folder.

3) Package Files.. zip up test.exe, test.dmb, test.rsc, and the byond/ folder into test.zip.

4) Distribute test.zip to your friends and tell them to run the included test.exe. This will launch the local version of byond installed in step 2.

I will write a better tutorial for this in Dream Makers. In a future release we may also provide some convenience routines to package BYOND for you.
Dec 16 2009, 9:15 pm
Hmm...
I tested file:// but it didn't work. Do you have to put the byond bin files in a preset directory?
Dec 16 2009, 9:16 pm
Metamorphman wrote:
Hmm...
I tested file:// but it didn't work. Do you have to put the byond bin files in a preset directory?

Yes.

3) Package Files.. zip up test.exe, test.dmb, test.rsc, and the byond/ folder into test.zip.
Dec 16 2009, 9:19 pm
Oh :o
I thought you could just package the bin files in the same directory as the exe, dmb and rsc...

This is great! dmb2exe is now OBSOLETE! :D
Dec 16 2009, 9:42 pm
Yeah, it needs the default skin too so I figured it best to just package up the whole install directory.
Dec 16 2009, 10:05 pm
Wouldn't you(the seeder) need to keep updating that exe's specific byond version? So that the version everyone else downloads (when they click that game link) never becomes outdated?
Dec 16 2009, 10:22 pm
Yeah, currently it's just going to run whatever version of BYOND you distribute with your game. Although I figure if it works when you package it up, that gives insurance, since in theory a future BYOND might not work with your game.
Dec 17 2009, 8:04 am
Ohh. I see what you're saying. Nice, sounds good.
Dec 18 2009, 3:17 am
Now all we need is to change the shortcut icon :P
Dec 18 2009, 3:31 am
...what shortcut icon? o_O
Cause if you mean the icon of the exe, well, you can already do that.