My initial reaction (without testing so I apologise if I've missed something basic) is that you are needlessly complicating things. * Install to Custom location. * Copy ~bin/profilex_template.ijs to ~bin/profilex.ijs. * Edit ~bin/profilex.ijs with hard-coded links for ~user, ~temp (and ~home??) to the desired locations. As I understand it you want everything to be the same for all users so variables are not required.
* Move Start Menu folder to All-Users profile. * Done. As I said at the start, I may be wrong, but from the use case you have given, something similar to the above should do the job. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Murray Eisenberg > Sent: Friday, 21 March 2008 08:06 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Jgeneral] Re: install & configure J602 under Windows XP > > My solution, after a couple hour's digging and reading and > experimenting, appears at the end, after my original quoted message. > > On at Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:46:32 -0400, Murray Eisenberg wrote: > > > > The J602 installer for Windows offers three choices none of which is > > what I want: I want to install for all users, but NOT in c:\Program > > Files. The best I could do was to install as a single user and to > > select the program installation directory I wanted, > > D:\Language\j602\bin\j.exe. > > > > But I do NOT want to keep any user files in > > > > C:\[user]\j602-user > > > > but rather inside the the single Juser directory that I > want to specify, > > just like I always have before (with recent releases) by means of > > suitable configuration files include a profile.ijs -- see below. > > > > I note that the installer did create C:\[user]\j602-user > but except for > > 4 empty subdirectories, that directory is completely empty. > > > > The J program shortcut I use has target > > > > D:\Language\j602\bin\j.exe -jprofile > > d:\language\Juser\config6\myprofile.ijs > > > > and starts in the installation directory, d:\language\j602. > > > > The myprofile.ijs referred to above includes: > > > > NB. create SYSTEMFOLDERS > > NB. the entry for binary is added in boot.ijs > > sep=. PATHSEP_j_ > > prf=. PROFILE {.~ PROFILE i: sep > > add=. 'd:\language\Jaddons' > > sys=. prf,sep,'system' > > tmp=. 2!:5'JHOME' > > usr=. 'd:\language\Juser' > > cfg=. 'd:\language\Juser\config6' > > hlp=. sys,sep,'extras',sep,'help' > > hom=. (0&e. { ;&prf) 2!:5 'JHOME' > > ids=. ;: 'profile system addons temp user config help home' > > SYSTEMFOLDERS_j_=: ids ,. prf;sys;add;tmp;usr;cfg;hlp;hom > > > > And the version of startup.ijs in that same > d:\language\Juser\config6 > > includes: > > > > NB. Provide global for environment var JHOME > > HOME_z_=: (2!:5'JHOME'),'\' > > TEMP_j_=: (2!:5'JHOME') > > > > This startup.ijs is what referred to in the entry > > > > STARTUP=: 'd:\language\Juser\config6\startup.ijs' > > > > in d:\language\Juser\config6\config.ijs. > > > > When I try to start the program using the shortcut as > modified, I get > > error message: "Error and no IDE window for debugging. > > > > What's wrong and how can it be fixed? > > SOLUTION > > I offer this in the hope that it might save other users a bit of grief > in upgrading from J601 to J602 in case they, like me, insist upon a > strict separate of the Windows system drive, J program files, > and J user > files. This is for Windows (XP), but similar methods may work with > other platforms. > > 1. Create Windows environment variables: > > system variable: JHOME [path for temporary files] > for me, this is e:\JTemp > > user variable: JUSERPROFILE [path for the user profile] > for me, this is D:\Language\Juser > > The idea is: (a) to keep all the user-specific script files of some > permanence in a location separate from the J install directory (of > course) and yet not in the user's C:\Documents and Settings directory; > keep stuff associated with Windows itself on one drive (actually, > partition), and stuff related to programs on another drive; > and (b) keep > temporary files on a separate data drive from where more > permanent user > script files are kept. > > 2. Create directories named in those two variables, of course. > > 3. Create subdirectory config602 of the directory named in > JUSERPROFILE. > > 4. Copy profile.ijs to that config602 directory from ~bin, rename it > myprofile.ijs (for example), and modify the myprofile.ijs as follows: > change the line > > home=. >(systype-5){(2!:5'HOME');(2!:5'USERPROFILE');'\My > Documents' > > to: > > home=. >(systype-5){(2!:5'HOME');(2!:5'JUSERPROFILE');'\My > Documents' > ^ > > That's the crucial step, so that (under Windows) it's the Windows user > environment variable JUSERPROFILE that gets read rather than the > Windows-provided variable USERPROFILE (which points to > c:\Document and Settings\[username]). > > For other platforms, that original line in profile.ijs has to > be changed > accordingly. For example, for Unix, which has systype value > 5, it's the > variable HOME that would need to be changed. > > 5. Copy ~bin\profilex_template.ijs to ~\bin\profilex.ijs (as that > template file suggests) and edit it to change some folder > locations, e.g.: > > NB. user=. home,userx NB. profile default - edit to change > user=. 2!:5'JUSERPROFILE' > temp=. 2!:5'JHOME' > config=. user,'\config602' > > 6. [optional] Create in the config602 subdirectory of the JUSERPROFILE > target a file startup.ijs that loads packages you typically use and > builds additional shortcuts for script names, e.g.: > > buildpublic_j_ 0 : 0 > ws ~user\ws > myutil ~user\myutil > ) > > 7. Change the shortcut that starts j.exe so that its target is now > something like the following (which should be on one line): > > D:\Language\j602\bin\j.exe -jprofile > d:\language\Juser\config602\myprofile.ijs > > There's one slight annoyance remaining: the file profilex.ijs MUST be > kept in ~system\bin, it seems -- at least if one redefines > "config" there! > > It is alleged that profilex.ijs "is not replaced by installs/updates". > Still, it would be nice to be able to keep it someplace else, > such as in > one's user config directory -- but this seems impossible. > > > > -- > Murray Eisenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mathematics & Statistics Dept. > Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) > University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) > 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 > Amherst, MA 01003-9305 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
