On 10/4/06, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, I've looked at the registry a bit, and it seems like I can register > App Paths either under HKLM (for the whole machine) or under HKCU (for the > current user). However, both seem to have issues. [...] > 2. Register HKCU "App Paths" entries for all console scripts, pointing to a > second '-conio-.exe' wrapper for the same '-script.py', thus allowing > console scripts to be run from the "Start/Run" command line.
As I said in a previous email, keep away from App Paths, and in particular, don't register an executable under any name but its own. There's very little documentation that I could find on what App Paths should do, so all you've got to go on is experiment and looking at what others do. No-one that I have seen ever registers an exe under a different name. And some programs (4NT, for example) expect the App Path name to match the exe name (and give a broken user experience if that isn't true). Essentially, you're well into "undocumented behaviour" territory there, and things *will* go wrong. Frankly, anyone using Start/Run *knows* that command line programs don't leave their window open. They know to start cmd, and type the command into that (even if they don't do anything else in cmd). Their expectations are right, don't break them by trying to be too clever. Paul. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
