Basics

Step #3: Basics

In this part, you can define the destination directories for your files - where they have to be copied to.

On the left side of this form you'll find the list of files you have selected for installation in Step #2. The tree displayed on the right side is designed to hold your list of destination directories.

To define a destination for your files:

·	just click "Add" to add a target directory of your choice (detailled description: see below)
·	now select the file(s) of the left list (you may also mark more of them using your mouse) and drop them on the directory entry you desire as target for the selected files.

If you do nothing here (and the "destination directories" list is empty), ALL files will be installed in the pre-defined "Windows" directory.

You will see that the files are automatically removed from the left list if you have already assigned them to the directory definition list at the right. Especially at complex setup projects, this gives you perfect control over which files still have to be assigned to a destination directory. If the left list is empty, this shows that all files of your project (files listed in Step #2) have been assigned to a destination directory.
Please note that each filename can just be used once - INF-based setups don't allow it to assign several files of the same name to individual destination directories.

How to define a destination directory

INF-Tool offers 4 types of destination directories to use in your setups:

·	user-configurable destination directories (with dialog prompt)
·	fixed (hard-coded) destination directories (hard-coded, user can't change)

·	Copy to a directory (or subdirectory of it) which has to be read from the Windows registry
·	fixed subdirectory of directories read from the registry or entered by the user

Using these methods, you have maximum flexibility when installing your files (just click on the links above to find in-depth description of each of these offered types).

Please note that hard-coded destination directories with long names (like "C:\Program files") can just be created with INF-Tool Professional (the registered version of the program) since this requires a certain add-on library which is just part of the registered version.

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