RE: [Audacity-devel] Fwd: Windows Registry Bug

[Markus M. <me...@me...>]

> I added this to bugzilla (bug 38).  What should we be doing?
> Does our installer support setting the registry?  Should we
> just ignore the error if the user doesn't have the priveleges?
> Should we be prompting the user?

The following has some helpful information:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/sysinfo
/base/hkey_classes_root_key.asp

It should probably set the HKCR key as defined on < Win2000 only. On
Win2000/XP the corresponding value in HKLM\Software\Classes (if
administrator) or HKCU\Software\Classes (if no administrator
permissions) should be set. This should probably be done by the
installer. InnoSetup has some provisions on setting registry keys
depending on the windows version, but I fear the scripting extensions
would be needed to accomplish the conditional branch on the access
rights that are available.

Who is doing the Windows installer at the moment? If I should look into
this, drop me a note.


Markus

> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Audacity-help] Bug in 1.1.3
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 21:53:36 -0900 (AKST)
> From: Toby Everett <to...@ev...>
> To: aud...@li...
> 
> When I run Audacity 1.1.3 (installed via EXE) on an XP box as 
> a non-local
> machine administrator, I get a message box titled "Audacity 
> Error" with the
> content "Can't set value of 
> 'HKCR\Audacity.Project\shell\open\command' 
> (error
> 5: access is denied.)".
> 
> First off, it should be the job of the install routine to set 
> that value.  I
> presume it was added so that tarball installs would work.  That said, 
> what if
> I wanted that value to point to the 1.0 code?  Second off, if 
> it's already
> set, there should be no need for Audacity to update it.  This message 
> can, of
> course, be worked around by going in as Admin and loosening the 
> privileges on
> that exact key, but that's a bit of a hack.
> 
> --Toby Everett
> 
> 
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