Get rid of the bloat - Fast, small, easy to use software installation
Get rid of the bloat - Fast, small, easy to use software installation
Stand-alone installers with the widest platform support for professional developers.
Create stand-alone installers for any Windows 32-bit or 64-bit desktop or server platform, with complete customization of all installer actions and dialogs.
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Below is a selection of Tarma Installer 5's project pages.
The development environment has clearly subdivided project sections and pages, plus extensive help and toolbars.
The project pages use a step-by-step approach to define your installer (note the large white arrows at the top right of each page), but also allows you to access each page individually.
Tarma Installer 5 installers run on Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008, 7, including x64 editions and Windows Server 2008 Core (both GUI and non-interactive modes are supported).
The Windows Mobile .cab installation files are intended for PocketPC and SmartPhone 2003 and later, including Windows Mobile 5 and 6.
The development environment requires Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008, 7, including x64 editions.
Using the built-in dialog editor, you can completely redefine any and all dialogs in the installation wizard, add any dialogs that you need, or even remove all of them completely.
While my install requirements are rather simple with a few files to install, I wanted visual customizations to the installer to give it a 2009 look & feel. Tarma delivered what I needed at a great price. The trial version let me confirm it would do what I wanted, and the tech support was first rate even on pre-purchase. I've also used the web updater component included with Tarma which was not available on the competitive products I looked at. It allows my customers to get updates from within my product. Very cool! -- Frank van Gilluwe, FAQware
You have complete control over the installer's actions, even to the point that it's not an installer at all, but, for example, a CD-ROM AutoRun menu application.
Easy to customize everything. User interface intuitive enough that I quickly guessed my way through most of what I needed, only had to dig into the help for a small part. I especially like the flexibility and simplicity of the UI customization. -- Pieter Branderhorst, Amthor Technologies Inc.
Virtually any piece of text that is visible to the user can be localized, including, but not limited to: dialogs, messages, file and folder names, shortcut titles, and registry data.
You can build a single installer that includes all languages, or separate installers for each language from a single project.
16 languages included: Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish.
You can add your own translations with the built-in localization editors.
Following the MSI model, features are pieces of functionality that the user can select for installation in a tree-like structure, while components are groups of installation items defined by the developer that must be installed or removed together.
As a developer myself, Tarma looks like it was written by someone who had the ability to polish the edges, so to speak. It looks like it was written by the same guy, or by a team that were very much on the same page of how things should flow. So many apps these days are clearly maintained by people that don't understand the overall architecture, so things don't 'look and feel' the same everywhere. I'm pretty picky and Tarma makes even me happy. -- Mike Welch, Sr. Systems Engineer, HP iPAQ Support Engineering
