Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Stamps installer on Windows

[John P. <jo...@jo...>]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 08:13:53PM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote:
> Yeah, John already mentioned about that ("and of course using the correct
> registry entries instead of the absolute stuff shown above").  He just
> gave those paths as an example for standard US installation of Windows.
> 
> -Mark
> 
Mark is correct: the registry entries I'm using will naturally solve
that problem.

cheers,
John.

> 
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Gabriel [iso-8859-1] Gazzán wrote:
> 
> > In the spanish version of Windows, for example, the C:\Program Files\ dir is
> > called C:\Archivos de Programa\
> > I suppose Windows should provide a generic way of refering to that directory
> > regardless of the Windows language version used; in that case it'd make sense
> > to use it, don't you think?
> >
> > thx!
> >
> > Gabriel
> >
> > El Miércoles 14 de Septiembre de 2005 18:26, John Popplewell escribió:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > just finishing off the installer for the Tux Paint Stamps collection on
> > > Windows.
> > >
> > > The Stamps can be installed for all users in the application directory:
> > >
> > > 'C:\Program Files\TuxPaint\data\stamps\'
> > >
> > > or just for the current user in a personal directory:
> > >
> > > 'C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\TuxPaint\stamps\'
> > >
> > > along with that users drawings.
> > >
> > > Note that one of these locations has a missing 'data\' element which is
> > > causing me a slight headache.
> > >
> > > It would be nice if the installer didn't fiddle about with relative
> > > destination paths based on whether it thought you were installing in the
> > > application directory or in the users data directory. It would mean that
> > > for the situation where a restricted user is installing the stamps they
> > > could *manually* choose to install the stamps in their data directory
> > > (the default) or in their local Tux Paint application directory and have
> > > it work correctly.
> > >
> > >
> > > Would anyone object if I added additional search paths in the Tux Paint
> > > executable to check for stamps and fonts directories inside a 'data\'
> > > directory in the users 'home' directory on Windows?
> > >
> > > e.g. Tux Paint would search these places for stamps:
> > >
> > > C:\Program Files\TuxPaint\data\stamps\*
> > > C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\TuxPaint\stamps\*
> > > C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application
> > > Data\TuxPaint\data\stamps\*
> > >
> > > and something equivalent for fonts (anything else?) and of course using
> > > the correct registry entries instead of the absolute stuff shown above
> > >
> > > :-)
> > >
> > > It would also make zipped stamps easy to install in both locations: just
> > > unzip in the relevant TuxPaint directory,
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > > John.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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