Clickteam Fusion 2.5 provides you with the ways of creating your distributable application.

For simple applications or games :

Just choose to build the application as a standalone executable or as a screen saver. The file produced by Clickteam Fusion 2.5 contains all the necessary data: runtime binaries, graphic and sound filters, the application itself, the sounds and music, the extension objects, movements and transitions used in the program.

If your application refers to external files from within the objects included in the application, you can choose to include them in the distributable file by selecting the “Include external files” option in the Application properties : the building process will result at the end in one and only one file, that contains everything. This file is compressed to save space. The intelligent runtime routines of Clickteam Fusion 2.5 will uncompress all the necessary data (including the external files) into a temporary folder, and resolve all the internal links to the files. The result is an application or screen saver that works instantly when you double click on it.

For more complex applications :

Your application might need a lot of external files, like large video files, large sound files that would be too big to include in a standalone executable file : this would induce a long delay when clicking on the file, the time needed to uncompress the data into the temporary folders. Or you might also just want to build a setup program that installs shortcuts to your application. This is the reason why Clickteam Fusion 2.5 comes with a reduced version of Clickteam’s own installer package, Install Creator.

To use this installer, you must first build your application. Once this is done, you can open the installer settings by clicking on the Edit button of the Installer Settings property you will find in the application properties.

This installer is very easy to use and very flexible. Once the installer setting defined, you can choose to build the installer by clicking the Build Install Program button. The end result will be a setup program that will install all the necessary files onto the user’s computer, accordingly to your settings.

Once built :

Once you application and/or installer is built, you can decide to burn a CD-ROM or publish the file on the Internet. For standalone applications, the reduced size of the runtime routines will make your application small enough to reduce the downloading time. Be aware though, that you must respect the Runtime agreement to be allowed to distribute your program.