Ticket #171 (new defect)

Opened 10 months ago

Last modified 10 months ago

"Run" menu doesn't seem to work on Windows.

Reported by: stefan Assigned to: andrew
Priority: critical Milestone:
Component: client Version:
Keywords: Cc:

Description

For v. 1.0, I'd say we should just get rid of the Run menu altogether on Windows unless this is an easy fix.

If I try to run a simple cmd prompt, the cmd prompt launches, I can see it in Task Manager, but the window doesn't appear anywhere on my screen. I can't switch to it. It disappears from Task Manager when quitting EWFE. 

2009-09-25 12:52:25,168 [    DEBUG ewfe.client.gui.tasks         ] Running internal actions for Task Update server Earlybird
2009-09-25 12:53:07,950 [    DEBUG ewfe.client.gui.controllers.menus] Executing ['c:\\windows\\system32\\cmd']
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\isti\src\ewfe\resources>2009-09-25 12:53:22,464 [    DEBUG ewfe.client.core.installation ] Reading state for Service
2009-09-25 12:53:23,730 [    DEBUG ewfe.client.core.installation ] End of read state for Service

If I try to run Swarm, it looks OK: 

2009-09-25 12:50:01,730 [    DEBUG ewfe.client.gui.controllers.menus] Executing ['e:\\swarm\\swarm.bat']

but Swarm never launches. It turns out that if I run the swarm.bat file, and I'm not in the e:\swarm directory, swarm won't run. So this launch needs to start from that directory.

Can't run an application in quotes it seems? Trying to run Internet Explorer: 

2009-09-25 12:51:15,918 [    DEBUG ewfe.client.gui.controllers.menus] Executing ['"C:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe"']
2009-09-25 12:51:15,918 [    ERROR ewfe.client.gui.controllers.menus] Problem executing ['"C:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe"']: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified
2009-09-25 12:51:15,918 [    ERROR ewfe.client.gui.controllers.menus] Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\isti\src\ewfe\src\ewfe\client\gui\controllers\menus.py", line 76, in __execute
    Popen(args)
  File "C:\Python26\lib\subprocess.py", line 595, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "C:\Python26\lib\subprocess.py", line 804, in _execute_child
    startupinfo)
WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified

The user never gets any feedback from the GUI. It silently fails each time, unless you're looking in the log window.

Change History

09/25/09 12:55:04 changed by andrew

if you have nothing in the config file, the run menu should be empty.

09/25/09 13:04:47 changed by stefan

Yeah, I guess we could add a #comment into the config file that it doesn't work on Windows in the 1.0 version and be done with it for now. Maybe all lines (SNW, etc.) should be commented out and just left in there as examples for people on unix doing their own configuration, since it's unlikely their paths will match yours exactly on the first try.