I am considering buying my daughter (7) Wordshark & Numbershark to help with her dyslexia and dyscalcula. Why oh why do these things have to be so flippin expensive?! Am spending loads on books and equipment, but just wish there was a cheaper way. Can't help feeling I'm being taken advantage of. Does anyone know: Are they really worth it? WORDSHARK 5.0 is Windows and Macintosh. compatible, available in Stand Alone DVD, USB and Download. This page is for downloads. Can Wordshark Download Edition be used with more than one child? The 'HOME Download' licence will allow you to set-up up to 2 student accounts.
From Wiki
Jump to:navigation, search
Numbershark and Wordshark Network 4.05 MSI deployment
Everything here about Numbershark is the same for Wordshark.
For some reason Numbershark 4 doesn't have an MSI installer, or really any installer, just copy the files, add a shortcut, and in the target/working dir of the shortcut add the path to the share on the network.
Simple...ish
Install Wix 3 http://wix.sourceforge.net/
Copy numbershark-programs and numbershark-public to a folder called SourceDir
Run: 'Program FilesWindows Installer XML v3binheat.exe' dir SourceDir -cg Numbershark -out ns001a.wxs -gg -dr INSTALLDIR
It might complain about Java 1.4 dlls and things, shouldn't matter: eg:heat.exe : warning HEAT5150 : Could not harvest data from a file that was expected to be a SelfReg DLL: C:wixSourceDirnumbershark-programsbinNPOJI610.dll. If this file does not support SelfReg you can ignore this warning. Otherwise, this error detail may be helpful to diagnose the failure: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation..
This creates a .wix fragment. Put that fragment between:
and
use http://createguid.com to create 3 guids to replace GUID in that code
Because I don't quite know how to use WiX, find sections for numbershark-programs and -public
and
and change 'someGUID' to 'INSTALLDIR'
Change the name in ApplicationMenuFolder from Maths to whatever submenu you want it to appear in in the start menu.
Change the share in CustomAction Directory='NetworkShared' Value='domain.localshare$SharedDataNumbershark-shared' to your shared dir.
Save the new file as numbershark.wxs
Run 'Program FilesWindows Installer XML v3bincandle.exe' numbershark.wxs
this will complain about ICE18, 38, 43 and 60, ignore.
Finally run 'Program FilesWindows Installer XML v3binlight.exe' numbershark.wixobj to create the MSI
Copy the MSI and the SourceDir (or Numbershark, not sure) dir to your DFS share, deploy via GPO.
Notes: It would be better to make the MSI then have an MST to change the share path, then you can give the MSI to others, and the GUIDs wouldn't need to change.
The Custom Action is needed for some reason to make the workingdir point to a unc path, that's also why it can't be an advertised shortcut
Retrieved from 'http://www.edugeek.net/wiki/index.php?title=Numbershark_and_Wordshark&oldid=1819'