Incorrect shortcuts created by 1.2 installer

[iamphet]

Maybe some versions if Windows know how to resolve those shortcuts or something like that. I'm pretty sure they didn't work on my PC

[bovi]

But how does the target string look? Does it include the "-mod:eb -show_err" switches?

[iamphet]

Verbatim, including quotes:

"d:\Games\Rome - Total War\RomeTW.exe -mod:eb -show_err"

So Windows tries to find that strange file d:\Games\Rome - Total War\RomeTW.exe -mod:eb -show_err

[bovi]

But... Isn't that exactly right ?

[iamphet]

Of course, not. You can paste it into cmd.exe and see. Correct one would be "d:\Games\Rome - Total War\RomeTW.exe" -mod:eb -show_err
BTW TrivialScript installer does that correctly:

[Icons]
Name: "{app}\Examples\Foobar Control\FoobarControl"; Filename: "{app}\EBTrivialScript.exe"; Parameters: "-s foobar.xml"; WorkingDir: "{app}\Examples\Foobar Control\";
Name: "{app}\Examples\Hello World\HelloWorld"; Filename: "{app}\EBTrivialScript.exe"; Parameters: "-s hello.xml"; WorkingDir: "{app}\Examples\Hello World\";

[bovi]

Yeah, I got home and checked. You're right of course (again)... I think I'll make an entry in the frequent issues about this. I could have sworn it worked earlier, but not now at least.

[iamphet]

Bovi, let me propose few tweaks for the installer which I used for some minor mod. Some of them are too late to implement for EB 1.x since no major updates are expected, but maybe you find them useful for EB2 ;)

[Setup]
; prevent confusing warning about existing directory
DirExistsWarning=no
EnableDirDoesntExistWarning=yes
; keep AppId the same for all installers 
; and they will select previous installation target dir by default
AppId=Europa Barbarorum
; invoke code to guess install directory for users having only one installation
DefaultDirName={code:DefDestDir}

...

{Code}
function DefDestDir(NoArg: String): String;
  var
    Path: String;
begin
  if RegQueryStringValue(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, 
    'SOFTWARE\The Creative Assembly\Rome - Total War - Gold Edition', 'InstallPath', Path) then
    Result := Path
  else if RegQueryStringValue(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
    'SOFTWARE\The Creative Assembly\Rome - Total War', 'InstallPath', Path) then
    Result := Path
  else
    Result := ExpandConstant('{pf}\Activision\Rome - Total War');
end;

// trying to be smart and warn users against selecting wrong directory
function NextButtonClick(CurPageID: Integer): Boolean;
begin
  if CurPageID = wpSelectDir then
    Result := (FileExists(RemoveBackslashUnlessRoot(WizardDirValue) + '\RomeTW.exe') or
      (MsgBox('The installer cannot find RomeTW.exe in the destination directory. Are you sure you want to use the selected directory?',
         mbConfirmation, MB_YESNO) = IDYES))
  else
    Result := True;
end;

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