RE: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency
Hi all again... I wonder if I may revisit this thread I started a little while ago that ended up in the Supreme Court :-) I've been able to reproduce an error as to why my custom CD-ROM icon isn't showing up in the (WinXP) My Computer (and is being replaced by a generic one). If I right click any icon in the My Computer window, the system crashes everything (truth!). I obviously don't that while working, but if my CD-ROM is in the drive, and I purposely crash everything out of My Computer, the correct custom icon that I made miraculously shows up for the CD-ROM drive when I go back into My Computer. Can anyone relate to this oddity? [AUTORUN] OPEN=FMApprovals.exe LABEL=FM Approvals ICON=assets\FMA.ico ever appreciative, - Michael M. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency
Not sure if this of any help, but I recently used the Label parameter in an autorun.inf and the icon refused to appear. It wasn't until I removed it that everything went back to normal. hth Fraser [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency
That's the key. A unique name for the icon. It seems that the system picks the first match in it's icon cache. Sometimes. Bertil Flink Creative Media - Original Message - From: Mark A. Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 2:48 AM Subject: RE: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency At 12:39 2003-10-15, Todd Culley wrote: I would say that the system isn't refreshing its system icon cache for one reason or another. Maybe the system has a lot of processes running. I suspect this is the case, too. I only recently figured out that the icons were cached when my CD showed the wrong icon on my old Win2K computer. I was really spooked since it was an icon for one of the client's competitors. Double checking showed that the CD did indeed have the correct icon and I knew that I had just recently tested the other CD on this machine. Hmmm. Must be a cache somewhere. I didn't know about the ShellIconCache file itself until today. Now I make sure that the icon always has a unique name. Where I used to use: icon=folder\CD.ico I now use something like the companies name or initials. icon=folder\MAB_CD.ico And, yes. Backslash \ is the correct one. Especially since autorun.inf is still stuck in the old 8.3 days (at least through Win2K, I haven't tested it for long filenames spaces on WinXP). -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency
Michael, Could you clarify for me: Is this CD specific, machine specific, or random? Chris. - Original Message - From: Mendelsohn, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 1:47 PM Subject: RE: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency Hi all... Moving back from the tangential ideological comments, including the inaccurately described demographic makeup of the United States Supreme Court... My icon is still delinquent! :-) === Todd had a good suggestion: is it / or \, in other words, Icon=media\uth.ico Or Icon=media/uth.ico I've tried both with inconsistent results each way. Officially, which is it? I typically set my icon equal to my projector's .exe file. Icon=myProjector.exe What a great suggestion! I didn't know you could do that. === Fraser, yes, my autorun is turned on. === Chris, I appreciate your sending the link, but I can't count on my users being able to do this...that would sooo not happen. === regards, - Michael M. I don't seem to notice these problems on my projects. However, I am assuming you made a typo when you entered your example: Icon=media/uth.ico It should read: Icon=media\uth.ico -- notice the use of the backslash and not the forward slash. todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mendelsohn, Michael Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency Hi list... == I sifted through the Lingo-L Direct-L archives, and I couldn't find any previous posts answering my question, so I'm gracing Lingo-L with yet another autorun post... sigh == On some CDs I've created, when you double click My Computer, autorun.inf makes my custom icon replace the generic icon for that drive (as it should), but on other CDs, autorun.inf fails to do this, and the icon for the CD drive is something ugly and generic, even though there's no difference between the two autorun.inf files. In my projects, I store my icons in a media folder on the root of the CD. The autorun.inf file always has this line: Icon=media/uth.ico (And, for what it's worth, I create the icons in Microangelo v5.55.) Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? Thanks, Michael M. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency
I believe it is disc specific. The label works, but the icon doesn't. Could you clarify for me: Is this CD specific, machine specific, or random? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency
At 12:39 2003-10-15, Todd Culley wrote: I would say that the system isn't refreshing its system icon cache for one reason or another. Maybe the system has a lot of processes running. I suspect this is the case, too. I only recently figured out that the icons were cached when my CD showed the wrong icon on my old Win2K computer. I was really spooked since it was an icon for one of the client's competitors. Double checking showed that the CD did indeed have the correct icon and I knew that I had just recently tested the other CD on this machine. Hmmm. Must be a cache somewhere. I didn't know about the ShellIconCache file itself until today. Now I make sure that the icon always has a unique name. Where I used to use: icon=folder\CD.ico I now use something like the companies name or initials. icon=folder\MAB_CD.ico And, yes. Backslash \ is the correct one. Especially since autorun.inf is still stuck in the old 8.3 days (at least through Win2K, I haven't tested it for long filenames spaces on WinXP). -- Mark A. Boyd Keep-On-Learnin' :) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency
from my old stuff: [autorun] OPEN=StudioCom.exe ICON=sc.ico shell\verb1\command=StudioCom.exe shell\verb1=Run the StudioCom.exe Demo roymeo -- roymeo(AT)brokenoffcarantenna.com -- i used to love you back when you wrote poetry [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency
Thank you for bringing this thread out of the mud (entertaining as it is... really, I get a good laugh out of it) and back to the issue. I have also found on occasion for reasons unknown to me, that sometimes the icon comes up perfectly in 9 computers, but on the 10th one (same OS, likely fiddled with by infinite number of users) it doesn't show. This happens (on occasion) even when I have set the icon equal to the exe. I have also wondered about it from time to time. That's all in windows (sorry, no experience in developing for Mac, although I'd rather use one as my developing platform in many cases), since less than 1% of our market uses Mac (except for universities, which rarely outsource any kind of development, at least in my part of the world). And for what it's worth, I have yet to see this problem in Windows XP. It seems from what I can remember to be a Windows 98 and under problem. Can't recall it happening with 2000 either. Andrew -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Culley Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 5:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency I don't seem to notice these problems on my projects. However, I am assuming you made a typo when you entered your example: Icon=media/uth.ico It should read: Icon=media\uth.ico -- notice the use of the backslash and not the forward slash. I typically set my icon equal to my projector's .exe file. Icon=myProjector.exe todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mendelsohn, Michael Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency Hi list... == I sifted through the Lingo-L Direct-L archives, and I couldn't find any previous posts answering my question, so I'm gracing Lingo-L with yet another autorun post... sigh == On some CDs I've created, when you double click My Computer, autorun.inf makes my custom icon replace the generic icon for that drive (as it should), but on other CDs, autorun.inf fails to do this, and the icon for the CD drive is something ugly and generic, even though there's no difference between the two autorun.inf files. In my projects, I store my icons in a media folder on the root of the CD. The autorun.inf file always has this line: Icon=media/uth.ico (And, for what it's worth, I create the icons in Microangelo v5.55.) Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? Thanks, Michael M. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency
Hi Michael, I don't know if this will help you at all, but it may be worth a look: http://tinyurl.com/qzoy Last time my icons started mis-behaving, this was the cause. Hope this helps. Chris. - Original Message - From: Mendelsohn, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 9:45 PM Subject: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency Hi list... == I sifted through the Lingo-L Direct-L archives, and I couldn't find any previous posts answering my question, so I'm gracing Lingo-L with yet another autorun post... sigh == On some CDs I've created, when you double click My Computer, autorun.inf makes my custom icon replace the generic icon for that drive (as it should), but on other CDs, autorun.inf fails to do this, and the icon for the CD drive is something ugly and generic, even though there's no difference between the two autorun.inf files. In my projects, I store my icons in a media folder on the root of the CD. The autorun.inf file always has this line: Icon=media/uth.ico (And, for what it's worth, I create the icons in Microangelo v5.55.) Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? Thanks, Michael M. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency
just to throw a question out there, is this happening on machines with autorun turned on? I don't know on PCs which have autorun switched off whether or not the autorun.inf file gets read at all. Fraser Shot in the dark Campbell [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency
Hi all... Moving back from the tangential ideological comments, including the inaccurately described demographic makeup of the United States Supreme Court... My icon is still delinquent! :-) === Todd had a good suggestion: is it / or \, in other words, Icon=media\uth.ico Or Icon=media/uth.ico I've tried both with inconsistent results each way. Officially, which is it? I typically set my icon equal to my projector's .exe file. Icon=myProjector.exe What a great suggestion! I didn't know you could do that. === Fraser, yes, my autorun is turned on. === Chris, I appreciate your sending the link, but I can't count on my users being able to do this...that would sooo not happen. === regards, - Michael M. I don't seem to notice these problems on my projects. However, I am assuming you made a typo when you entered your example: Icon=media/uth.ico It should read: Icon=media\uth.ico -- notice the use of the backslash and not the forward slash. todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mendelsohn, Michael Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency Hi list... == I sifted through the Lingo-L Direct-L archives, and I couldn't find any previous posts answering my question, so I'm gracing Lingo-L with yet another autorun post... sigh == On some CDs I've created, when you double click My Computer, autorun.inf makes my custom icon replace the generic icon for that drive (as it should), but on other CDs, autorun.inf fails to do this, and the icon for the CD drive is something ugly and generic, even though there's no difference between the two autorun.inf files. In my projects, I store my icons in a media folder on the root of the CD. The autorun.inf file always has this line: Icon=media/uth.ico (And, for what it's worth, I create the icons in Microangelo v5.55.) Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? Thanks, Michael M. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency
Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? I'm also having this problem... Autorun contains.. icon=projector.exe - projector is in root of CD - problem occurs on Windows XP Home and Professional - projector icon was created with Microangelo 5.5 Is it a Microangelo or a Director problem??? Any relevant ideas much appreciated, Bruce ps. I'm sure we'd all love to get a straight answer on this issue without it being hijacked by silly OS-advocacy posts. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
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Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? I'm also having this problem... Not sure this will help, but I usually use an external icon and haven't bumped into this problem. icon=some.ico -- Cole [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency
Bruce, as far as I know the correct way is with the backslash \. This is typically used for local system references and the / forward slash used in UNC - Uniform Naming Convention for server directories and the web. I don't think it's either Director or MicroAngelo. If you can see the icon in your packaged director exe in the windows explorer then MicroAngelo did its job correctly. I would say that the system isn't refreshing its system icon cache for one reason or another. Maybe the system has a lot of processes running. Try running MicroAngelo's 'On Display' program on the affected system. AdvancedRebuild System Cache and see if it will even display the icon. I would suggest scrolling through microsoft's MSDN developer site msdn.microsoft.com for more detailed info on the icon topic, as well as asking the folks at MicroAngelo if they can point you in some directions. todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Collier Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 6:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? I'm also having this problem... Autorun contains.. icon=projector.exe - projector is in root of CD - problem occurs on Windows XP Home and Professional - projector icon was created with Microangelo 5.5 Is it a Microangelo or a Director problem??? Any relevant ideas much appreciated, Bruce ps. I'm sure we'd all love to get a straight answer on this issue without it being hijacked by silly OS-advocacy posts. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
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On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 03:45 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? Because Windows, in general, sucks? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/ [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
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Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? Because Windows, in general, sucks? Hey, them's fighting words! What do you mean in general? [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
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Some of us have that opinion about Macs... You should try WinXP Pro... If people have bad experiences with Windows, I've found it's usually because their computing practices contribute heavily to it's instability and seemingly negative qualities. I've never had a copy of Windows that was less stable than Macs. Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 6:02 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 03:45 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael wrote: Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? Because Windows, in general, sucks? Warren Ockrassa | President, nightwares LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] nightwares LLC | Consulting Programming http://www.nightwares.com/ Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide Chapter samples | http://www.nightwares.com/director_beginners_guide/ [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
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On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 05:40 PM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: If people have bad experiences with Windows, I've found it's usually because their computing practices contribute heavily to it's instability and seemingly negative qualities. I've never had a copy of Windows that was less stable than Macs. Actually neither have I. However, that's because of my background with UNIX, OS/2, DOS, PRODOS and other CLI and semi-fragile OSen in years previous. Because of that experience I know what stupid things not to do. Any given OS is stable out of the box. How breakable it becomes due to user stupidity is another factor entirely, and it's indisputable that of all the current OSen extant, Windows is the most breakable. It's very aptly named. How many other OSen can you list that are prone to viruses by simply retrieving and reading email? -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
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At 18:40 Uhr -0400 14.10.2003, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: If people have bad experiences with Windows, I've found it's usually because their computing practices contribute heavily to it's instability and seemingly negative qualities. that's by design. while some OSes help you to get your work done, the other OSes need your experienced help to get their work done. I've never had a copy of Windows that was less stable than Macs. might be related to the fact, that you compare software with hardware ? here we go again... ;-)) -- ||| a¿ex -- [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
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On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 05:39 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? Because Windows, in general, sucks? Hey, them's fighting words! What do you mean in general? It's superior in meaning to in private, though not as heavy in intent as in commander-in-chief. Perhaps I should have been more circumspect and instead said in captain or in major -- though the latter might have implied a majority, and we know that in the US we *must* have proof that majority opinion exists (or a Supreme Court ruling, rendered by nine elderly conservative Caucasians, to the same effect) before we can make such assertions. -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
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How many other OSes are run on 90+% of the world's personal computers? With that kind of coverage, any OS would be the target of malicious programmers. The other OSes don't have enough coverage to warrant virus programmers' attentions. Plus, with Microsoft endeavoring to create a seamless computing experience by integrating software with other software, Windows is bound to have vulnerabilities creep in. And from my view, they have done a better job of creating that seamless experience than any other OS (and all you have to do is buy an antivirus program and download software patches to get rid of the resulting problems). I've never had anything not work with WinXP, whereas I've had several pieces of hardware not work with OSX (but yet they still worked with WinXP), not to mention the crashing problems when trying to use OS9 and OSX programs on the same machine. Not exactly what I'd call ideal computing. I'm just going on observations... Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer Cre8tive Group cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 cell: 859/608-9194 - Original Message - From: Howdy-Tzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 7:32 PM Subject: Re: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 05:40 PM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: If people have bad experiences with Windows, I've found it's usually because their computing practices contribute heavily to it's instability and seemingly negative qualities. I've never had a copy of Windows that was less stable than Macs. Actually neither have I. However, that's because of my background with UNIX, OS/2, DOS, PRODOS and other CLI and semi-fragile OSen in years previous. Because of that experience I know what stupid things not to do. Any given OS is stable out of the box. How breakable it becomes due to user stupidity is another factor entirely, and it's indisputable that of all the current OSen extant, Windows is the most breakable. It's very aptly named. How many other OSen can you list that are prone to viruses by simply retrieving and reading email? -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
Re: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency
On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 07:18 PM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote: How many other OSes are run on 90+% of the world's personal computers? UNIX. PCs and servers. Why are you being so defensive? Do you own MSFT stock? Do remember that mass appeal does not equal value. With that kind of coverage, any OS would be the target of malicious programmers. It was. The last major UNIX attack was a sendmail bug that was nailed, I think, in 1988 or '89 or so. Since then attacks have failed. Hmm. Wonder why. Either no one uses 'NIX or it is damn close to impervious. The other OSes don't have enough coverage to warrant virus programmers' [bla de bla de bla, typical MS apologist rant] Oh! sig block! Sorry, I thought you were going to raise a cogent point before you finished your note, one subject, topic or idea that had never been discussed before, ever, in this entire tired debate. Guess not. Warren Ockrassa | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Publisher, nightwares eBooks A division of | http://www.nightwares.com/ebooks/ nightwares LLC | http://www.nightwares.com/ [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
RE: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency
I don't seem to notice these problems on my projects. However, I am assuming you made a typo when you entered your example: Icon=media/uth.ico It should read: Icon=media\uth.ico -- notice the use of the backslash and not the forward slash. I typically set my icon equal to my projector's .exe file. Icon=myProjector.exe todd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mendelsohn, Michael Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 1:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lingo-l Autorun/icon inconsistency Hi list... == I sifted through the Lingo-L Direct-L archives, and I couldn't find any previous posts answering my question, so I'm gracing Lingo-L with yet another autorun post... sigh == On some CDs I've created, when you double click My Computer, autorun.inf makes my custom icon replace the generic icon for that drive (as it should), but on other CDs, autorun.inf fails to do this, and the icon for the CD drive is something ugly and generic, even though there's no difference between the two autorun.inf files. In my projects, I store my icons in a media folder on the root of the CD. The autorun.inf file always has this line: Icon=media/uth.ico (And, for what it's worth, I create the icons in Microangelo v5.55.) Anyone have any insight as to why the My Computer window would *only sometimes* show the custom icon for the CD drive? Thanks, Michael M. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
