Hi Anton, Indeed the long names give problems. I always install the root stuff in c:\root on my win98 box and this doesn't give any problems considering the PATH etc.... Why not make this as default directory. Cheers, Nick. -- Dr. Nick van Eijndhoven mailto:nick@phys.uu.nl http://www.phys.uu.nl/~nick -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Org.: Utrecht University/Nikhef, Department of Subatomic Physics Address: P.O. Box 80.000, NL-3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands Phone: +31-30-2532331(direct) +31-30-2531492(secr.) Fax: +31-30-2518689 NIKHEF: +31-20-5922028(direct) +31-20-5922000(secr.) Fax: +31-20-5925155 CERN: +41-22-7679751(direct) +41-22-7675857(secr.) Fax: +41-22-7679480 Offices: Buys Ballot lab. 710 (Utrecht) H350 (Nikhef) B23 1-020 (CERN) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anton Fokin wrote: > > Rene, > > InstallShield code below will set ROOTSYS and PATH on win9x/NT/200. I am > runnning win98, so you have to check it on NT/2000. If it works for a local > user on NT, I can add "administrator on-line" check and if it is so, install > ROOT for all users on this comp. > > There is a problem with ROOTSYS and long/short names in autoexec.bat on > win9x. Paths should be "short" in the .bat file, i.e. autoexec.bat can not > recognize > > SET ROOTSYS = C:\Program Files\ROOT > > Instead you have to write > > SET ROOTSYS= C:\Progra~1\ROOT > > and the same in the PATH. > > On the other hand ROOT doesn't understand > > ROOTSYS= C:\Progra~1\ROOT > > Could you check this with Valery? In your current InstallShield distribution > the default path is c:\Program Files\root. I am curious if any win9x user > has managed to run ROOT from this location. > > Regards, > Anton > > // your global variables > > #define WM_WININICHANGE 0x001A > #define HWND_BROADCAST 0xffff > > function OnFirstUIAfter() > STRING szTitle, szMsg1, szMsg2, szOption1, szOption2; > STRING szROOTSYS, szKey, szEnv; > NUMBER bOpt1, bOpt2; > POINTER pEnv; > > begin > > if (GetEnvVar ("ROOTSYS", szROOTSYS) < 0) then > > if (SYSINFO.WIN9X.bWin9X) then > > // MessageBox ("WIN 9x detected", INFORMATION); > > BatchFileLoad(""); > > szROOTSYS = TARGETDIR; > > if (BatchAdd("ROOTSYS", szROOTSYS, "PATH", BEFORE) < 0) then > MessageBox ("Setting ROOTSYS failed", INFORMATION); > endif; > > LongPathToShortPath(szROOTSYS); > > if (BatchAdd ("PATH", szROOTSYS+"\\bin;%PATH%", "PATH", AFTER) < 0) > then > MessageBox ("Setting ROOT PATH failed", INFORMATION); > endif; > > BatchFileSave("AUTOEXEC.OLD"); > > BATCH_INSTALL = TRUE; > endif; > > if (SYSINFO.WINNT.bWinNT || SYSINFO.WINNT.bWin2000) then > > // MessageBox ("WIN NT/2000 detected", INFORMATION); > > szKey="Environment"; > RegDBSetDefaultRoot(HKEY_CURRENT_USER); > RegDBSetKeyValueEx(szKey,"ROOTSYS",REGDB_STRING,TARGETDIR,-1); > > szEnv = "Environment"; > pEnv = &szEnv; > SendMessage (HWND_BROADCAST, WM_WININICHANGE, 0, pEnv ); > > endif; > > endif; > > Disable(STATUSEX); > > ShowObjWizardPages(NEXT); > > bOpt1 = FALSE; > bOpt2 = FALSE; > szMsg1 = "RQuant installation successfully finished!" + > "\n\nYour system.rootrc file has been copied to > system.rootrc.old"; // SdLoadString(IFX_SDFINISH_MSG1); > SdFinishEx(szTitle, szMsg1, szMsg2, szOption1, szOption2, bOpt1, bOpt2); > end; > > http://www.smartquant.com
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