Re: [shoes] `No, download Shoes if it's absent` option isnowavailable on Windows
- From:
- Roger Lovelock
- Date:
- 2010-08-12 @ 11:13
Have installed 1503 - the Shoes program itself (with the choices of
running a shoes program, packaging or reading the manual) when run as the
last step of the install had all sorts of flashing going on under Vista
(not aero - just vista standard). However, that doesn't seem to be an
on-going problem, as when I set Shoes 1503 up as a shortcut on my desktop
I no longer got any 'flashing' (a bit of a puzzle).
Noticed that when running the packager from the Shoes program itself I got
no choices - had always to produce a .shy file - but when I ran the
packager stand-alone from my All Programs menu I got all the options of
.shy, .exe, Windows, OSX, with/without etc etc - just wondered whether it
would be better for the packager option on the Shoes executable to be the
same.
Anyway - the good news - after cleaning out all traces of Shoes from my XP
machine I copied across my test program 'download shoes if it's absent'
and it worked perfectly after downloading and setting up Shoes, apart
from one small anomaly - which I also noticed with my install of Shoes
1503 on my Vista machine - the copy of 'latest_shoes' in the .shoes folder
was not set up as in the previous version of Shoes that I installed - does
this mean that I will always need to download Shoes over the net rather
than using a local copy if I take the option 'Yes I want Shoes included
...'?
Anyway - main objective is achieved thanks, - one last question - I like
the manual pages (apart from the fact that some things like Shoes.setup
don't seem to get a mention) - and I know there is a text copy in the
Shoes folder - but I'd love to be able to print it off in the same format
as shown on the screen - any simple way to do it?
Roger
From: ashbb
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 6:50 PM
To: shoes@librelist.com
Subject: Re: [shoes] `No, download Shoes if it's absent` option
isnowavailable on Windows
Hi Roger,
Please try to confirm with 0.r1503.
Sorry, my poor English. :-P
ashbb
Re: [shoes] `No, download Shoes if it's absent` option isnowavailable
on Windows
- From:
- ashbb
- Date:
- 2010-08-12 @ 13:18
Hi Roger,
> when I set Shoes 1503 up as a shortcut on my desktop I no longer got
> any 'flashing' (a bit of a puzzle).
Wow, really? Good news. But why?... I can't understand...
> Noticed that when running the packager from the Shoes program itself
> I got no choices - had always to produce a .shy file...
Yeah, Shoes has two packager programs now.
They are not the same one. :-P
> Shoes 1503 on my Vista machine - the copy of 'latest_shoes' in the
> .shoes folder was not set up as in the previous version of Shoes that
> I installed - does this mean that I will always need to download
> Shoes over the net rather than using a local copy?
No.
In the case of network installing, the latest Shoes will be as the name
`shoes-setup.exe` under TMP directory (in my case c:\WINDOWS\Temp), not
under .shoes directory.
> I'd love to be able to print it off in the same format as shown
> on the screen - any simple way to do it?
Good question!
Try to do `shoes -h`. You can find `shoes --manual-html DIRECTORY` option.
;-)
Cheers,
ashbb
Re: [shoes] `No, download Shoes if it's absent` option isnowavailableon Windows
- From:
- Roger Lovelock
- Date:
- 2010-08-12 @ 22:26
Hi Ashbb,
Thanks for the reply. I understand why there is no need for
'latest_shoes' on the network install as this will usually be a 'user'
machine, not a 'developer' - so no need for any 'packaging' setup. What
concerned me more was the fact that when I installed 1503 on my
development machine from my manually downloaded copy of 1503 it did not
setup a 'latest_shoes' (as far as I can tell) for use in packaging on my
development machine when I choose the option to include Shoes in the .exe.
The install did set up a .shoes folder, with 2 sub-folders (+cache and
policeman), under policeman was a win32 folder, both +cache and win32 were
empty.
`shoes --manual-html DIRECTORY` option worked well for the
documentation - thanks.
Roger
From: ashbb
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 11:18 PM
To: shoes@librelist.com
Subject: Re: [shoes] `No, download Shoes if it's absent` option
isnowavailableon Windows
Hi Roger,
> when I set Shoes 1503 up as a shortcut on my desktop I no longer got
> any 'flashing' (a bit of a puzzle).
Wow, really? Good news. But why?... I can't understand...
> Noticed that when running the packager from the Shoes program itself
> I got no choices - had always to produce a .shy file...
Yeah, Shoes has two packager programs now.
They are not the same one. :-P
> Shoes 1503 on my Vista machine - the copy of 'latest_shoes' in the
> .shoes folder was not set up as in the previous version of Shoes that
> I installed - does this mean that I will always need to download
> Shoes over the net rather than using a local copy?
No.
In the case of network installing, the latest Shoes will be as the name
`shoes-setup.exe` under TMP directory (in my case c:\WINDOWS\Temp), not
under .shoes directory.
>Â I'd love to be able to print it off in the same format as shown
> on the screen - any simple way to do it?
Good question!
Try to do `shoes -h`. You can find `shoes --manual-html DIRECTORY` option. ;-)
Cheers,
ashbb