The Leaphy installer

Building Leaphy installer

The Leaphy installer is a wrapper around the mBlock installer. It runs the mBlock installer and configures some defaults for Leaphy.

Prerequisites

• Install NSIS: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Download
• Unzip the Block_win_V3.4.11-installed.zip file into a subfolder called mBlock_win_V3.4.11-installed.

Building the installer

• Right-click on the Leaphy.nsi file and select Compile NSIS script
• Wait a while for the Leaphy-setup.exe file to be generated.

Description of files

• mBlock_win_V3.4.11-installed.zip A ZIP archive containing the contents of the mBlock program files folder after running of the mBlock installer. The mBlock installer is downloaded from http://www.mblock.cc/software/mblock/mblock3/
• Leaphyshield2 The Leaphy extention that needs to be installed into mBlock.
• mBlock.exe and welcome.swf These are files from the mBlock installation, modified to have the Leaphy logo. For more on how to modify these files, see the hints at Making changes to the installer.
• makeblock.sol User preference file: contains the lang=nl_NL setting and other stuff.

Making changes to the installer

mBlock user settings

Most of mBlock settings are stored in a Flash SharedObject file in the users roaming appdata folder. (%APPDATA%\com.makeblock.Scratch3.4.11\Local Store) This folder is usually created when mBlock is first launched. The Leaphy installer customizes mBlock settings by copying some files to this Local Store.

In order to edit these preferences, a program to edit .sol files is needed. There seem to be no good programs to do this, but an online editor is available: https://mariani.life/projects/minerva/

mBlock installed files

To edit the mBlock .swf files, a flash decompiler is needed: https://github.com/jindrapetrik/jpexs-decompiler/

To change the icon of a .exe, Resource Hacker is used.