Igor user files

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Thu, 09/06/2012 - 08:47 am

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
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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.

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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