[izpack-devel] Shortcut Panel Crashes on Windows 2000

Hal Vaughan hal at thresholddigital.com
Tue May 30 18:39:09 CEST 2006


I wanted to bring this up here before I submitted it as a bug, since I 
have no debugging info (it just crashes!).  I've included my 
shortcutSpec.xml at the bottom of this e-mail, in case there's 
something I missed that could create a problem.

I'm using a shortcut panel as the last functional step in installing my 
program.  It works fine on Windows XP, but whenever I get the 
ShortcutPanel on Windows 2000, when I click "Next", instead of getting 
shortcuts, my computer reboots.  As you can imagine, this means I can 
either not support Windows 2000 or come up with really crazy work 
around.

Has anyone else seen this behavior?  

I've got working directories set, but the shortcuts are to .vbs files 
that don't really need environment variables.  They figure out where 
they are and then run .bat files in the same directory with a few 
arguments the .vbs scripts figure out on their own.  I'm not using 
special icons (just the standard .vbs icon) either.

Any ideas on this would be helpful.  I think it's likely a bug of some 
kind, but I'm once again working on very little sleep for a number of 
days, so I could be missing the extremely obvious.

Thanks!

Hal
----------------------------shortcutSpec.xml-------------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<shortcuts>
	<skipIfNotSupported/>
	<programGroup defaultName="threshNet Agent" location="startMenu"/>
	<shortcut
				name="threshNet Control Panel"
				target="$INSTALL_PATH\TNetControlPanel.vbs"
				commandLine=""
				workingDirectory="$INSTALL_PATH\"
				description="Runs the threshNet Control Panel"
				initialState="noShow"
				programGroup="yes"
				desktop="yes"
				applications="no"
				startMenu="no"
				startup="no">
		<createForPack name="threshNetAgent"/>
	</shortcut>
	
	<shortcut
				name="threshNet Test"
				target="$INSTALL_PATH\TNetTest.vbs"
				commandLine=""
				workingDirectory="$INSTALL_PATH\"
				description="Runs tests to verify threshNet Agent functions"
				initialState="noShow"
				programGroup="yes"
				desktop="no"
				applications="no"
				startMenu="no"
				startup="no">
		<createForPack name="threshNetAgent"/>
	</shortcut>
</shortcuts>



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