Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:

 
> If you're interested in giving the Windows RC7 installer a sanity
> check before I link to it on the beta download page, please feel free:
> http://www.povray.org/beta/povwin-3.7.RC7-setup.exe

Installed on XP SP3, no issues. 
There wasn't a previous version of PovRay installed on this system.

yvo


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On 16/02/2013 09:13, Tim Riley wrote:
> Installed it (and let it remove RC6) and found that it has a problem with files
> containing spaces; checking the registry (this is Win7-SP1) shows a few
> problems:

Good find - thanks for pointing this out. I've fixed this and put
another version of the setup in the same location; please check to see
if it's OK for you now.

FWIW I also enhanced the code that handles the registry keys to save
and restore a little better.

> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\pvengine64.exe - still points to RC6 unless it
> should have been deleted at installation (or removal of RC6).

I'm a bit unsure if I should remove associations automatically added
by windows. Yes, it would make sense to remove them, but up to now
I've tried to avoid having the uninstaller touch anything that the
installer didn't create.

I'll have a look at what Microsoft recommends (if anything) before I
make any further changes.

regards,

-- Chris

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Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
> On 16/02/2013 09:13, Tim Riley wrote:
> > Installed it (and let it remove RC6) and found that it has a problem with files
> > containing spaces; checking the registry (this is Win7-SP1) shows a few
> > problems:
>
> Good find - thanks for pointing this out. I've fixed this and put
> another version of the setup in the same location; please check to see
> if it's OK for you now.

Installed the new version on another machine that had RC6. Everything seemed to
go okay and the space problem is resolved.

> FWIW I also enhanced the code that handles the registry keys to save
> and restore a little better.
>
> > HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\pvengine64.exe - still points to RC6 unless it
> > should have been deleted at installation (or removal of RC6).
>
> I'm a bit unsure if I should remove associations automatically added
> by windows. Yes, it would make sense to remove them, but up to now
> I've tried to avoid having the uninstaller touch anything that the
> installer didn't create.

I had no way of knowing what the installer created and what Windows creates
after the fact, so I just listed everything that didn't look right. I don't mind
poking around in the registry, but 99% of it is totally foreign to me (make that
99.99%).

> I'll have a look at what Microsoft recommends (if anything) before I
> make any further changes.
>
> regards,
>
> -- Chris

Thanks for all of your work on this over the years.

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Chris Cason wrote:

> If you're interested in giving the Windows RC7 installer a sanity
> check before I link to it on the beta download page, please feel free:
> http://www.povray.org/beta/povwin-3.7.RC7-setup.exe

Installed smoothly on win 7 64-bit - and can still render scenes ;)

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Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
> If you're interested in giving the Windows RC7 installer a sanity
> check before I link to it on the beta download page, please feel free:
> http://www.povray.org/beta/povwin-3.7.RC7-setup.exe

The installer works.  (N.B. I could not test the RC6 uninstall, as there was no
RC6 on this computer, and I'm not about to fire up my old one.)  However, it
didn't automatically run the sample scene, as past versions have done.  Is this
deliberate?

When I unchecked Options|Render Window|Keep Above Main, it didn't take effect
until after I restarted POV-Ray.

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"Cousin Ricky" <rickysttATyahooDOTcom> wrote:
> The installer works.  (N.B. I could not test the RC6 uninstall, as there was no
> RC6 on this computer, and I'm not about to fire up my old one.)  However, it
> didn't automatically run the sample scene, as past versions have done.  Is this
> deliberate?
>
> When I unchecked Options|Render Window|Keep Above Main, it didn't take effect
> until after I restarted POV-Ray.

Oops, forgot: Windows 7 64-bit.

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On 18/02/2013 12:30, Cousin Ricky wrote:
> The installer works.  (N.B. I could not test the RC6 uninstall, as there was no
> RC6 on this computer, and I'm not about to fire up my old one.)  However, it
> didn't automatically run the sample scene, as past versions have done. 

I don't think I've been doing this for the RC's or betas; though yes
we did for 3.6 and past versions.

> Is this deliberate?

More an oversight than anything; we had problems getting the launch
option to work properly when we were using InstallShield and when
creating the new installer I didn't include the /DEMO command.

It's a good point, though, so I will add it for the final release
(I'll be running test setups for that past you guys too :-)

> When I unchecked Options|Render Window|Keep Above Main, it didn't take effect
> until after I restarted POV-Ray.

hmmm, have to look at that. I think in the past we may have done an
automatic re-start?

-- Chris

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> On 18/02/2013 12:30, Cousin Ricky wrote:
>> The installer works.  (N.B. I could not test the RC6 uninstall, as there was no
>> RC6 on this computer, and I'm not about to fire up my old one.)  However, it
>> didn't automatically run the sample scene, as past versions have done.
>
> I don't think I've been doing this for the RC's or betas; though yes
> we did for 3.6 and past versions.
>
>> Is this deliberate?
>
> More an oversight than anything; we had problems getting the launch
> option to work properly when we were using InstallShield and when
> creating the new installer I didn't include the /DEMO command.
>
> It's a good point, though, so I will add it for the final release
> (I'll be running test setups for that past you guys too :-)
>
>> When I unchecked Options|Render Window|Keep Above Main, it didn't take effect
>> until after I restarted POV-Ray.
>
> hmmm, have to look at that. I think in the past we may have done an
> automatic re-start?
>
> -- Chris
>
If Keep above main was unchecked with the previous version, it stays 
that way.

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Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
> I'm a bit unsure if I should remove associations automatically added
> by windows. Yes, it would make sense to remove them, but up to now
> I've tried to avoid having the uninstaller touch anything that the
> installer didn't create.

Why not to let the user decide, IF (s)he wishes so? In that case, the installer
could list all registry keys and their values, and the user can make a
case-by-case decision. Might be better in some cases, that a general decision
towards the one or another side.

I lost once all my valuable POV scenes because I never found out, that that POV
version moved (and not just copied) the user files into a totally different
folder within "My Documents". I was used to a folder within the POV-Ray folder.
So I deleted that new Scenes folder inside My Documents, and repended bitterly,
up to today (the Seneca deep space carrier, presented in this forum, was among
them).

I think, it is just wise, to include an option where the user can decide on a
case-by-case base.

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On 20/02/2013 16:17, Sven Littkowski wrote:
> I lost once all my valuable POV scenes because I never found out, that that POV
> version moved (and not just copied) the user files into a totally different
> folder within "My Documents". I was used to a folder within the POV-Ray folder.

No version of any POVWIN installer has ever moved any existing files.

-- Chris

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