Registering .exe hangs

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I built a SB install for this application in March of last year and had it
working great. For various reasons (management), we stayed with the old Wise
install at that time.

I have just recompiled the sb script for this app under 6.7 but when I try
to run it, it hangs when registering the graphics server .exe (use to work
fine under older version of sb 6.x). What happens is the gsw32.exe is
started and dosent end, thusly, the sb install dosent proceed.

Any ideas on what I can change to make the .exe not start when registering
and continue the install? I am not really sure that gsw32.exe needs to be
registered, but I have always done so for the past 12+ years<g> and it goes
in the windows\system32 directory.

Thanks

Skip

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Hi Skip,

If GSW32.EXE does not return from the self-registration process then
something in GSW32.EXE "hangs". To execute an .exe self-registering
process, the .exe always has to be started with the /REGSERVER switch.

According to the Graphics Server Knowledge Base the GSW32.EXE file is
non-registering.

Does this help?

BTW, I know why the GSW32.EXE "self-registering" process did not hang in
March of last year. Because the "Register as EXE" function in SetupBuilder
was never executed <g>. We fixed this in Build 2070.

> Change log for release of SetupBuilder 6.7 Build 2070 (December 05, 2007)
>
> FIX : [SB#711141] Installer: "Register as EXE" self-registration
> option was not working as expected.

Friedrich

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Thanks...now i know i am not going crazy...at least over this, I'm not<g>


> According to the Graphics Server Knowledge Base the GSW32.EXE file is
> non-registering


So you are saying that I dont need to register the gsw32.exe then?

Skip

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Hi Skip,

>
> Thanks...now i know i am not going crazy...at least over this, I'm not<g>
>

<G>

>
> So you are saying that I dont need to register the gsw32.exe then?
>

Yes, that's correct. I think GSW32.EXE "hangs" because it does not support
the self-registering procedure at all. This file is the core graphic server
that is used by OCX.

Only GSServer.DLL, GRAPHS32.OCX and GRAPHDTC.OCX (if you make use of these
files) support self-registering.

Friedrich

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Lindersoft
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Thanks..

I do use and register those (works ok).

I will change my script to not register the .exe

Skip