[esp-r] Re: By popular demand - ESP-r native windows installer for a D drive - BETA testers requested

[Chris Jones]

I just ran the D installer.
First I uninstalled esp-r and erased the remaining c:\esru files.

The install went fine.  I rebooted which set the path to 
d:\esru\esp-r\bin;c:\gtk\bin

I went to the command line and entered
c:\> esp-r
This brought up the project manager along with the ERROR:
"Could not find C:/Esru/esp-r/default"

Click Close

Then I tried to Open and exemplar.  No luck.  Exit Project Manager

Then go to Start, Programs - no ESP menu folder created.

Then go to Desktop, double click esp-r (newly created icon on the 
desktop).  Again, "Could not find C:/Esru/esp-r/default"

Check Project Manager, Database Maintenance.  The paths all start 
with C:\.  Note I can change the path to D:\ for all the database 
except climate.  I can't find a way to point to the climate list on D:\.

At this point I stopped messing about.


At 12:37 PM 11/8/2006, Jon Hand (clcv10) wrote:

>Over the last few weeks we have had dozens of responses to our BETA
>testing of the one click native windows ESP-r installer.  As a result :
>   a) several of the exemplar models have been fixed
>   b) the results analysis module tends to start up and open files
>correctly for models
>       which are in folders with spaces.
>   c) Also images embedded in models also display when there are spaces
>       in the folder names.
>   d) Export of text data from the results module produces a file (so
>it is not
>      necessary to cut and paste from the text feedback buffer.
>
>Several people stated that they would really like to have an installer
>which puts ESP-r in the D dirve. So, we tried it and (shockingly) it
>seems to be
>working almost as good as the standard C drive.
>
>And there is so much to look at and review that we are looking for
>volunteers
>to try the D drive installer (if you don't have a D drive you can sit
>this one out).
>
>For those who already have the C drive version:
>
>Probably if you should uninstall the older version before doing tthe
>D drive
>version and you might need to have a look at your PATH envirnment
>variable to see that it includes D:\Esru rather than C:\Esru.  Also
>any models which you played around with will probably point to
>databases in C:\Esru\esp-r\databases and climate files
>in C:\Esru\esp-r\climate and they really should point to the D drive.
>
>For those of you who do not already have ESP-r on your machine
>there seems to be no preparation required.
>
>The questions are basically the same as earlier:
>
>a) did the installer run  [ yes no]
>
>b) where the messages in the installer helpful [ yes no suggestions....]
>
>c) were the steps clear [ yes no suggestions...]
>
>d) did it create the folders it should have (D:\Esru and C:\GTK)
>[ yes no ]
>
>e) did it correctly patch the 'path' variable [ yes no]
>
>      for those with a previous version what happened to the path
>variable?
>
>f) was it possible to startup ESP-r from the desktop icon [ yes no ]
>
>     was a desktop icon created [ yes no ]
>
>g) was it possible to 'own' one of the exemplar models - and
>     where did it xcopy the files to and was it possible to open
>     that model after it was copied and/or click on a cfg file and
>     start up the project manager focused on that model  [ yes no sort-
>of ]
>
>h) if you use Windows explorer to copy and past a model to another
>      location on your machine can you click on the cfg file within the
>     model cfg folder and have the project manager startup [ yes no
>sort-of ]
>
>i) if you are a guru at Inno Setup or ISTool and know how to make the
>     installer work better please feel free to make suggestions. We would
>     be happy to share the 'iss' file because we can't get it to make
>a startup
>     menu entry for ESP-r!
>
>j) what was the machine type [   ], OS [   ], memory [  MB], disk
>space [  GB]
>     you tested the installer on.
>
>THE USUAL DISCLAIMER....
>
>Because it is a BETA installer there is a risk that ESP-r
>will not work on a particular machine/OS combination.
>Of course volunteers will backup any working version of ESp-r
>on their test machines ;-)
>
>Regards, Jon Hand
>
>
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