Feature requests

The Master · 23rd May 2001, 20:20

I'd do this myself but (1) I'm not a very good C programmer, and (2) I don't have 3 billion dollars for M$es damn C compiler

1) When doing an install in NT/2K, it would be nice to be able to say "install to ALL users" - by default the installer only does the logged in user. Not real sure how to implement this one tho. I'd assume a new $variable, but you'd also need to be able to differentiate the install in the script.

2) I need to install some font files. I think I can just drop them to the fonts directory, but that isn't necessarily easy, since a user can remap the fonts folder using the shell namespace. I wanted to add a $FONTDIR variable, but here I get stopped by my lack of a compiler. The BETTER solution here was be a pseudo-variable that can reference the shell folders. There's already a helper function in util.c to do the lookup, but you'd need a variable like this to do the callout:

$SHELLFOLDER(Fonts)

It would just pass "Fonts" to the queryShellFolders helper function and return that as the result. Naturally, this would suck if it blew up, but that could maybe just dump the value of $TEMP into a failed request.

Any thoughts?

c2R · 23rd May 2001, 21:54

These are both things that I've wanted to do at one time or another, and ended up using batch files, and other convoluted ways of getting around the problem!

So I think they're both excellent ideas!

yazno · 23rd May 2001, 22:07

hi,

use my function and it will work:

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=50066

cu yzo

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23rd May 2001, 20:20	#1
The Master Junior Member Join Date: May 2001 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 8	I'd do this myself but (1) I'm not a very good C programmer, and (2) I don't have 3 billion dollars for M$es damn C compiler 1) When doing an install in NT/2K, it would be nice to be able to say "install to ALL users" - by default the installer only does the logged in user. Not real sure how to implement this one tho. I'd assume a new $variable, but you'd also need to be able to differentiate the install in the script. 2) I need to install some font files. I think I can just drop them to the fonts directory, but that isn't necessarily easy, since a user can remap the fonts folder using the shell namespace. I wanted to add a $FONTDIR variable, but here I get stopped by my lack of a compiler. The BETTER solution here was be a pseudo-variable that can reference the shell folders. There's already a helper function in util.c to do the lookup, but you'd need a variable like this to do the callout: $SHELLFOLDER(Fonts) It would just pass "Fonts" to the queryShellFolders helper function and return that as the result. Naturally, this would suck if it blew up, but that could maybe just dump the value of $TEMP into a failed request. Any thoughts?

23rd May 2001, 22:07	#3
yazno Member Join Date: Oct 2000 Posts: 92	hi, use my function and it will work: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?threadid=50066 cu yzo