[Starkit] Re: Starkit Digest, Vol 17, Issue 6

[Gerald W. Lester]

jcw at equi4.com wrote:

>Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:20:54 +0100
>From: Jean-Claude Wippler <jcw at equi4.com>
>Subject: [Starkit] SDX string customization of Windows starpacks
>To: starkit list <starkit at equi4.com>
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>There's a new tentative revision of SDX which can customize 
>version/description strings in a Windows executable.  This is 
>particularly useful for Windows XP, which shows such strings as balloon 
>popup when the mouse pointer is hovering over the exe.
>
>...
>
>To use it, create a "tclkit.inf" file at the top level of your app.vfs/ 
>tree.  This is similar in how tclkit.ico customization is done by SDX.  
>The contents of the tclkit.inf file is used in "array get" so it has to 
>contain valid Tcl pairs, for example:
>
>	FileDescription "test description"
>	FileVersion 1.2.3.4
>	LegalCopyright "no copyright"
>	OriginalFilename blah.exe
>	ProductName sdx
>
>The presence of this file *and* the -runtime flag with a file ending in 
>".exe" triggers the replacement logic when you run "sdx wrap".  You 
>have to include all strings you want to see in the exe, because 
>existing strings are dropped and only the ones you specify will go in.
>
>A report of what gets added will be displayed on stdout.  There's a 
>limit on what can go in, since the existing area is overwritten, but it 
>looks like that limit is not very low.
>  
>
I tried the following:

    FileDescription "Database Monitoring Utility"
    FileVersion 2.0
    ProductName DbMonitor
    Company "HMS Software, Inc."
    LegalCopyright "Copyright (c) 2005 by HMS Software, Inc. All Rights
    Reserved."

But only the FileDescription shows up in the "balloon".  Any ideas?

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