HardCoded Post Setup Executable

[VFP7]

Hi friends

VFP Setup wizard allows to run a post-setup executable, but this feature does not support "%s" clause in file reference. Strange enough it asks to hard-code the path name and expect that file will be present at user's disk. But if user install my application on any other disk than C: this file will not be there, as expected.

What is the solution ?

Thanks in advance.

 

[jonscott8]

I think you are confusing the way a post-setup executable works, with the way the distributed files (specified in step 1) work.

The post-setup executable gets compiled into the setup package. When the user executes the setup package, the post-setup executable is installed to the application directory (specified in step 5, although the user can change it) and ran from there.

Does that clear the water? Jon Hawkins

 

[rgbean]

VFP7(?),
Since your post-setup executable will be running in your newly installed directory, you should be able to determine where you are by:

?sys(5)+curdir()
or
?addbs(fullpath(set("default&quot))

Rick