Well, I have a set directory that I always install to
(c:\windows\media\graphics\POV 3.5 beta) that I have to navigate to with the
browse function.  I then simply delete the "POV-Ray for Windows v3.5"
subdirectory name.

The installer also takes an unnecessary and, for me at least, annoying step.
It resets the message background color.  I have a lovely background texture
that I obtained from ABTA that I use for this purpose.  The Alt-P shortcut
helps, but the background texture should, like the other editor preferences,
be preserved in an install.

"Robert Chaffe" <rob### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message
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> "Alex" <pov### [at] lazysodorguk> wrote in message
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> > Running win98 (not SE).
> >
> > I don't always like to install things in the default locations. I wish
> > to install Povray beta's to E:\pov35b. When the installer asks me for a
> > location, I select drive E: from the box, then click in the pov35b
> > directory, but the installer seems to insist on adding the sub-directory
> > "POV-Ray for Windows v3.5" to the destination directory (to give
> > E:\pov35b\POV-Ray for Windows v3.5"), which I then have to delete
> > manually.
> > I've got nothing against it defaulting to install in "C:\Program
> > Files\POV-Ray for Windows v3.5", but I'd like it to install into the
> > directory that I pick. Anyone not paying attention could easily find
> > Povray installed to a subdirectory thereof.
> >
> > I can't see that it should behave in such a fashion, I've never seen it
> > elsewhere.
> > --
> > Alex
>
> Have you tried the following?
>
> In the "Select Destination Directory" dialog that is displayed after
pressing the "Browse" button in the "Destination Folder"
> panel of the installation wizard, type in your preferred path in the text
box at the top of that dialog.

>
> --
> Robert Chaffe
> http://www.donovansweb.com/~chaffe/
>
>

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