renaming htdocs in DeskShell App Wizard causes DeskShell Exe Compiler to fail about appjs-deskshell HOT 7 OPEN

Without knowing more about how this fails I will have to guess that the problem is caused by a missing application icon. In the app.nsi file created the first time you run the compiler (if it does not already exist) then there is a line:-

Icon "htdocs\favicon.ico"

this icon is used for the program application icon if it is not found NSIS compiler fails. Check this and see if that is the issue, if not do you see any error messages in the console that can give the reason for the failure?

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This does not appear to be the reason for the failure. I have a valid favicon.ico file in htdocs. When I run the compiler as such it works.
If I rename htdocs to, say, 'deploy', and also edit the htdocs name to 'deploy' in the Exe compiler field for htdocs, the compiler fails.

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When you rename the htdocs directory to deploy then the app.nsi file will still be looking for htdocs\favicon.ico which is no longer there (it is now in deploy\favicon.ico). Copy favicon.ico to the same directory as app.nsi and rename it appicon.ico or similar then search in app.nsi file for

 Icon "htdocs\favicon.ico"

and change it to

 Icon "appicon.ico"

if you do this then you can rename htdocs as many times as you want and the compilation will no longer fail as the exe compiler can find the icon.

It might be nicer if the compiler generated the app.nsi file every time, this is certainly an option for the future but I wanted to allow people to take full advantage of nsis to customise their exe as much as they wanted so took the route of generating the file first time and then just using the file if it already exists without any modification for each subsequent change.

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I followed your instructions, but the compile still failed.

With 'deploy' as the htdocs name, in the app.nsi file, I tried

Icon "deploy\favicon.ico"

after copying the favicon.ico file to the same directory as app.nsi, I tried:

Icon "favicon.ico"

after renaming favicon.ico to appicon.ico in the same directory as app.nsi, I tried:

Icon "appicon.ico"

It is not a huge issue to have the htdocs directory keep the htdocs name for my project.

Thanks anyway.

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Well there should not be anything that is hardcoded to htdocs anywhere and if there is it would be good to fix it. What error do you get? I think I probably need to try and make sure that the error message from the compiler is probably displayed if it is not clear what actual error message is given.

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There's no error message. But in the output window I can see that none of the files in 'deploy' get collected/compiled, but they do get collected/compiled if named 'htdocs'. Running the EXE after a compile with 'deploy' just has the text 'File not found/'

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ok, unfortunately I am not sitting at my development machine right now, but I will re-create the problem locally and then push a fix out soon for this problem, there is no good reason to lock everything into the current layout and it should be easy to fix once I find out exactly what is causing it. The fact that the compilation is not showing the exact error message is also bad and needs to be fixed. I will write on this bug once I have an updated version for you to test on, hopefully in the next couple of days.

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