Re: Help with Windows installer - nsis

[Joe Wilkinson]

    Hi Richard
    See below:
    Joe

On 02/06/2020 10:29, Richard Shann wrote:

> On Tue, 2020-06-02 at 10:14 +0100, Joe Wilkinson wrote:
> > Hi Richard,
> > On a 5 year old HP laptop running Windows 10 it installed fine.
> > There is a shortcut in the start menu and one on the desktop.
> >       
> Ah! I don't see those on Vista - what icon is used (I'm guessing some
> sort of system default rather than the Denemo icon)?
>     
    
    Desktop icon is

    similar on start menu
> > And the program seems to start fine, asking me if I want to keep my
> > old 
> > commands, snippets etc.
> >       
> That would be very strange if you already had run any denemo version
> 2.4.0 on the machine - is it that this machine hasn't previously run
> that version?
>     
    Surely it should ask me if I want to keep old modifications to the
    defaults.
>  
> >  (I haven't run it fully, just started it up)
> > Was it supposed to run denemo by a click on a music.denemo file? 
> >       
>     
    I am quite happy for it not to; a display of the xml is fine
> You have to set up file associations - if you right click a
> music.denemo file and choose "Open with ..." and select Denemo.bat and
> then click on "Use this always" or some such it will happen.
>
> I think it would be possible to tell the installer to do that but my
> guess is it would involve registry entries and I wanted to avoid that
> for fear of upsetting someone.
>
> > That 
> > doesn't happen - I go into an XML reader.
> > It downloaded
> >       
> Do you mean installed?
>     
    No I meant downloaded (about half as fast??). But it could be all
    the oldies on this estate using the iPlayer.
    Installation didn't seem to be any/significantly slower
> >  rather slower than I am used to with the daily file; were 
> > you standing on your ethernet cable (??!!)
> > And it gave a window with every file name being extracted
> >       
> that's an optional feature - I think it helps to reassure people that
> something is happening.
>
> >  (this may be 
> > normal- I don't install many applications these days). The sheer
> > number 
> > of them made me wonder at the size of the beast!
> >       
> yes, it's got LilyPond in there and a certain amount of stuff not
> needed but which would take too much investigations to identify :(
>
> Thanks very much for the help.
>
> Richard
>
>
> > with best wishes
> > Joe
> >
> > On 01/06/2020 22:04, Richard Shann wrote:
> > > It occurred to me that it should be quite easy to make an installer
> > > that would install the version 2.4 of Denemo for Windows that is
> > > only
> > > available as a zip file. That would be more comfortable for novice
> > > users.
> > > I came up with this script for the nsis installer creation program:
> > >
> > > 8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><
> > > !include "MUI.nsh"
> > > !define MUI_ABORTWARNING
> > > !insertmacro MUI_PAGE_WELCOME
> > > !insertmacro MUI_PAGE_DIRECTORY
> > > !insertmacro MUI_PAGE_INSTFILES
> > > !insertmacro MUI_PAGE_FINISH
> > > !insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "English"
> > >
> > > Name "Denemo"
> > > OutFile "DenemoInstaller.exe"
> > > InstallDir "$PROGRAMFILES\Denemo"
> > > ShowInstDetails show
> > > RequestExecutionLevel admin
> > > Section
> > > SetOutPath $INSTDIR
> > > File /r denemo\*
> > > CreateShortcut "$SMPROGRAMS\Denemo.lnk" "$INSTDIR\Denemo.bat"
> > > CreateShortcut "$DESKTOP\Denemo.lnk" "$INSTDIR\Denemo.bat"
> > > SectionEnd
> > >
> > >
> > > 8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><
> > >
> > > Using that I got this installer
> > >
> > > http://www.denemo.org/~rshann/Denemo2.4Installer.exe
> > >
> > > I've tested this on an old Windows vista laptop (all I have access
> > > to)
> > > and it does install Denemo correctly. However, the script is
> > > intended
> > > to create a shortcut in the start menu and one on the Desktop to
> > > launch
> > > the program and these don't appear.
> > >
> > > 1) Could people with more modern Windows gear test that it works?
> > >
> > > 2) Could someone suggest why the links don't appear?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance!
> > >
> > > Richard
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >         
> >
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