Difference between revisions of "Irfanview"

Revision as of 10:12, 16 June 2006

Irfanview is an freeware image viewer with many additional features

The problem with irfanview is that it tries to write the config-file i_view32.ini to the install-dir, which is not appropriate in a multi-user environment. You can create an INI file to redirect this to the user's Application Data folder though:

i_view32.ini:

[Others]
INI_Folder=%APPDATA%\Irfanview

Than we need a batch-file because "copy" is not awailable in wpkg and "xcopy" will not always work in silent mode.

install.cmd:

copy /y "\\server\software\irfanview\i_view32.ini" "%ProgramFiles%\Irfanview"
\\server\software\irfanview\iview390.exe /silent /folder="%ProgramFiles%\Irfanview" /desktop=1 /group=1 /allusers=0 /assoc=1

<package id="irfanview" name="Irfanview 3.93" revision="1" >
    <check type="file" condition="exists" path="%ProgramFiles%\Irfanview\i_view32.exe" />
    <install cmd='\\server\software\irfanview\install.cmd' >
        <exit code="0" />
    </install>
  </install>
</package>

As an alternative method you can use a patch to enable a easy copy-function in wpkg. It comes as an attachment to bug #18

After applying that patch, you can use the following format in the packages.xml:

<install src="\\server\software\irfanview\i_view32.ini" dest="%ProgramFiles%\Irfanview" overwrite="true" />