[izpack-devel] Shortcut Panel Crashes on Windows 2000

[Hal Vaughan]

On Tuesday 30 May 2006 15:10, Elmar Grom wrote:
> Hi Hal,
>
> I never heard of such behavior. There is also nothing in the code
> that could cause the OS to reboot. In theory it should not be
> possible to cause this from within a Java application and the native
> code uses regular OS calls, no trickery or smoke and mirrors. So that
> makes the entire situation really strange.

Isn't there a native .dll that could cause some problems?  The shortcuts 
are never even created and I don't see any sign of them on reboot.

> Just to explore the situation a bit more, could you try to insert
> another panel after the shortcut panel and see what happens?

Are you thinking it might be the next panel?  I can try that later this 
evening.  I'll also be glad to use any debugging tools you recommend, 
provided I understand what I'm doing.  (There's a big gulf of skills if 
you're self taught!)

Hal

> 	Elmar
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: izpack-devel-admin at berlios.de
> [mailto:izpack-devel-admin at berlios.de]On Behalf Of Hal Vaughan
> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 9:39 AM
> To: izpack-devel at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: [izpack-devel] Shortcut Panel Crashes on Windows 2000
>
>
> 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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