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)? > 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?
> (I haven't run it fully, just started it up) > Was it supposed to run denemo by a click on a music.denemo file? 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? > 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 > > > > > > > >
