Hi all,
While I was working in portabilizing GrindStone, I've found a (possible) bug in the PA Installer: Grindstone installed itself in "%PROGRAMFILES%/Grindstone 2", and register its path in "HKLM\Software\Grindstone 2" (with spaces in the name). I've tried to use the option [CopyLocalFiles] section as following:
[CopyLocalFiles]
CopyLocalFiles=false
CopyFromRegPath=HKLM\Software\Grindstone 2
CopyFromRegKey=Install_Dir
CopyFromRegRemoveDirectories=0
CopyFromDirectory=%PROGRAMFILES%\GrindStone 2
CopyToDirectory=App\GrindStone 2
But generating the installer yields to the issue "{_If} expects 4 parameter, passed 5" in the line '{_If} $CopyFromRegPath = ""'. I suppose that's caused from the space between "Grindstone" and "2".
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Yeah, that's what seems to be causing the problem.
Try putting quotes around "HKLM\Software\Grindstone 2".
Make sure CopyLocalFiles is true, or else it won't work at all.
I found this bug and fixed it in my Installer repository, most of which will be going into the PortableApps.com Installer 1.0.1. (At that time the file was UTF-16LE and without a minor hg extension it detects that as binary, and I can't get it to apply online, so you don't get a diff.)
That this sort of problem had come back I found when my brother Jon went to build BPBible Portable 0.4.6 - one value in installer.ini which is normally "Multilingual" or "English" is in BPBible "With Resources", and that broke things, so I went through all the file and found a couple of others, including this one you're having trouble with.
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I think the latest version is 2.0.
Will there be 2 versions???
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Sorry, I meant 2.0.1.
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