Re: XPI question

David,

What's the command you're calling in the xpi install.js script to have 
it run your installer .exe file, and what's the unzip command you ran by 
hand that worked?

Ian Oeschger wrote:

> Hi David - Perfectly OK to write to me, except that I don't know the 
> answer to your question. I know that this level of interaction with 
> the OS (i.e., ShellExecute) sometimes has problems that require 
> special solutions--I am thinking of Python and difficulties that 
> people have with os.system calls--but I don't know what those 
> solutions are, so I am posting your message to the 
> netscape.public.mozilla.xpinstall newsgroup, where the pros hang out.
>
> .io
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> David Doyle wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I hope it's okay to write to you.  I couldn't find any other
>> address/newsgroup to write to.
>>
>> I've been working on a XPI installer for a simple installation program.
>> What I'm trying to do is to use XPI to set off our installer 
>> program.  Our
>> installer will then take over and perform the rest of the installation.
>>
>> The problem is that our installer uses the ShellExecute command to 
>> run an
>> external program ('unzip', in this case).  Now, when I run the 
>> installer by
>> itself, everything works just fine.  When I run the installer through 
>> the
>> XPI mechanism, ShellExecute doesn't seem to work.  It seems that the 
>> command
>> just gets bypassed.
>>
>> Everything else works just fine.  Files get copied, registry entries get
>> made...  It's just this one ShellExecute command that's stymieing me.
>>
>> I was hoping you had heard about this, or had any suggestions on how 
>> to fix
>> it (or suggestions on other people I should talk to).
>>
>> Dave
>>  
>>
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