Re: Generating custom Windows installers

2012-04-06 Thread Mark Hammond
On 7/04/2012 12:57 AM, Cesar Covarrubias wrote: I'm still getting my feet wet on the Windows side of things with Python, so I apologize for the noobish question. If i am reading the create_link.py example correctly, that is created when the application itself is invoked, not during installation.

Re: Generating custom Windows installers

2012-04-06 Thread Cesar Covarrubias
I'm still getting my feet wet on the Windows side of things with Python, so I apologize for the noobish question. If i am reading the create_link.py example correctly, that is created when the application itself is invoked, not during installation. Is that correct? If it is, how would I be able to

Re: Generating custom Windows installers

2012-04-05 Thread Mark Hammond
Seeing you are relying on win32com, you might as well add the links directly rather than via the intermediate WScript.shell object. Look in win32comext\shell\demos\create_link.py for an example of how to create shortcuts directly. HTH, Mark On 6/04/2012 5:23 AM, cesar.covarrub...@gmail.com

Generating custom Windows installers

2012-04-05 Thread cesar . covarrubias
Hello, I am working on creating an installer of a Python 3.2 application that we programmed. The end goal is to create an installer in which we can specify the install path, and create shortcuts in the Start Menu and Desktop. Ideally, we would like to give the users the option to create the Des