On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Rony G. Flatscher <rony.flatsc...@wu-wien.ac.at> wrote: > On 06.11.2010 16:09, Mark Miesfeld wrote: > > send me the file as an attachment. Just send it to my g-mail account, > or open a bug and attach the file to the bug. > > Unfortunately, that is not possible. One can mark a single line, but > pressing ctl-c would not copy the marked line to the clipboard. Trying to > select all (ctl-a) does not work, nor a section (select first line + > scrolling to the end, pressing shift-click).
Well, that's a NSIS thing that can't be changed. If you right click on the details window you get a context menu with only one item. Which is: Copy Details to Clipboard. If you select that menu item, then the entire contents of the details window is copied. You can paste into a file. I think it is meant to be a convenience. You don't have to first do a select all and then do a copy. > The "Create rexx.exe file association" check box *must* be checked. > If it is not checked, no file association will be created. This could > be your problem, the check box has to be checked. > > Oh, this was not clear to me at all! Well, it's hard to write text that takes into account every conceivable scenario. If the text is too long, 95% of the people reading it, tune it out. (As will happen with this e-mail. <grin>) On the "Associate file extensions with ooRexx ..." page it says: Check the check box to have the installer create file associations. The following pages will allow you to *specify* which associations are created. Then in the next pages you specify which associations you want. It seems entirely conceivable to me that someone would want to associate rexxpaws with all their programs. Therefore, if the "Create rexx.exe file association is unchecked, that association is not created. By leaving the "Create rexx.exe file association" check box unchecked, you are specifying that you do not want the association created. That is the standard Windows interface behaviour. Checking a check box means do what the check box label says, unchecking the box means do not do what the label says If someone goes through the pages and leaves every check box unchecked, then no associations are created. In your case, once 4.1.0 got installed one time without the .rex associations, then the next time you did the uninstall / install cycle the check box would be set to unchecked. Because that is what was done during the previous install. How 4.1.0 got installed the first time without associating .rex is the only question here. Once that happened, then what you describe happening on every install past that, makes sense. > If there is a connex between the > "Create Windows file-extensions" and this option, then maybe you could have > this option checked by default and filling in the default "Extension:" and > "File type name:" ? Well, it does. But - once you do an install of 4.1.0 and later, then these are filled in with what you did during the previous install > Running the install another time, this time checking "Create rexx.exe file > association" shows an empty field for "Extension:" and an empty filed for > "File type name:". Yes, because that is what was done during the previous install. > Supplying an extension is not really clear (with leading dot or not? Entered > ".rex"), If you do not enter the dot, when you leave the page, it will prompt you for the dot. > also it is probably not clear what to enter for "File type name:" > (I entered "RexxProgram" instead of "RexxScript"). > Maybe you could supply > defaults in the input fields as a guidance to the users? It says in the sentence above the check box: By default in Open Object Rexx .. the Rexx interpreter, rexx.exe, is associated with the .rex extension using the file type name of RexxScript. The edit controls are labeled "Extension" and "File type name" I don't really know what could be more clear than that. Although, I do realize that it may not be clear to some people, I don't know how to be more explicit. I, literally, have run the restructured installer hundreds of times, and could not break it. If you have the time to play with the install a little bit and can come up with a repeatable scenario that shows a problem, I'd love to have you open up a bug. 1.) Rerun the install program now that things are set the way you want. Do not check the "Upgrade type" of install check box. You will (should) see the file associations options pre-set to what you already have. 2.) Uninstall your current ooRexx through the Control panel or through the uninstall menu item in the start menu, first, before you run the install program. Then when you run the install of 4.1.0, you will (should) see the "Create rexx.exe file association" checked and the edit controls filled in with the defaults. 3.) Uninstall completely and install 3.2.0, (or 4.0.0, or 4.0.1.) Then run the 4.1.0 install. You will (should) see the "Create rexx.exe file association" check box checked and the edit controls filled in with the defaults. 4.) Run the 4.1.0 installation program again after you have installed 4.1.0 one time. Do not check the "Do upgrade type" of install. Then change all the options to anything you want, different than what you really want. Then run the install again, don't do an upgrade type, and you will (should) see all the options pre-set to what you did on the first install. Now, setting the options to whatever the user did on a previous 4.1.0 or later install, is open to debate. Maybe the options should always be set to the default. But, I don't think so. Setting them to the previous options is most likely to be correct. It's called "preserving the user's preferences" and is usually thought to be a "good thing" in user interfaces. -- Mark Miesfeld ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. 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