Igor user files

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Hi.

It would be great if you could obtain the location of the user data files/folders (Igor Extension etc in "My Documents" etc) from a function/command. This would allow me to create simple installers from within Igor as you already have access to the Igor folder via the Igor path.

Thanks

Jonny
This would allow me to create simple installers from within Igor.


Creating an installer in Igor is usually an exercise in frustration because you can't replace a file (e.g., XOP, procedure file, help file) that is open. Although you can kill a procedure file, you can't kill an XOP or help file. So I don't recommend creating an installer in Igor.

I hope to make this practical in a future version.

September 6, 2012 at 10:50 am - Permalink
hrodstein wrote:
JonnyCro wrote: This would allow me to create simple installers from within Igor.


Creating an installer in Igor is usually an exercise in frustration ...


At a minimum, one might want to create within Igor a method to report the current versions of installed packages, especially when certain conventions are followed. That was part of the thought processes behind development of

http://www.igorexchange.com/project/PackageTools
and
http://www.igorexchange.com/project/CodeDeveloperPanel.

Somewhere and somehow in the future, I would like to combine them (adding a GUI view of packages from CodeDeveloperPanel to the package oversight functions in PackageTools). Let me know if you find them useful.

--
J. J. Weimer
Chemistry / Chemical & Materials Engineering, UAHuntsville

September 6, 2012 at 05:51 pm - Permalink
I'm going to use igor to create a batch file which is executed after igor is closed. Thanks for the pointer to SpecialDirPath.... its just what i wanted.

September 6, 2012 at 11:46 pm - Permalink