Hello
Before Vista was released there was a lot of Millenium Bug-esque scaremongering going on, about how none of our games were going to work, because Vista wouldn't let you do this, or that. Well, I've tried it.
User Account Control was left ON (Default) throughout testing.
My game and its installer have been tested in Vista, and everything is working very well.
My program installed itself in the correct location. Shortcuts were properly created on the start menu, and a desktop shortcut. Each launched the game correctly.
My program successfully created a sub-folder containing its configuration files and save game data. It was also able to retrieve data from those files as normal. Vista's user account control displayed NO warnings when this happened.
My only issue has been with sound, but I won't go over that again - there are threads in the Blitzmax section about it. The audio problems were fairly quickly resolved by way of OpenAL.
The uninstaller worked perfectly. User Account Control warned me about running the uninstaller, as expected. All files were properly removed, with the exception of the game folder itself, Data subfolder and contained files. This was expected since these folders and files were created at runtime.
Conclusion: The transition to Vista is going to be far less painful than everybody said it was going to be.
Before Vista was released there was a lot of Millenium Bug-esque scaremongering going on, about how none of our games were going to work, because Vista wouldn't let you do this, or that. Well, I've tried it.
User Account Control was left ON (Default) throughout testing.
My game and its installer have been tested in Vista, and everything is working very well.
My program installed itself in the correct location. Shortcuts were properly created on the start menu, and a desktop shortcut. Each launched the game correctly.
My program successfully created a sub-folder containing its configuration files and save game data. It was also able to retrieve data from those files as normal. Vista's user account control displayed NO warnings when this happened.
My only issue has been with sound, but I won't go over that again - there are threads in the Blitzmax section about it. The audio problems were fairly quickly resolved by way of OpenAL.
The uninstaller worked perfectly. User Account Control warned me about running the uninstaller, as expected. All files were properly removed, with the exception of the game folder itself, Data subfolder and contained files. This was expected since these folders and files were created at runtime.
Conclusion: The transition to Vista is going to be far less painful than everybody said it was going to be.