Re: [pygame] vista testing...

["René Dudfield" <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

ah, cool.

Here's a couple of links from a search for more info:
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=211271
http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=209647
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=463884&SiteID=1

I think it should be fairly straight forward... but I can't seem to
find out to actually add the manifest to an exe.

Do you know how to add a manifest to an exe?

cheers,

On Feb 16, 2008 11:29 AM, Brian Fisher <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Vista if a program doesn't have a "manifest" that tells Vista
> whether it wants to ask for permissions or not, the default behavior
> is for Vista to let it think that it is writing and doing a bunch of
> things that would affect all users on XP, but virtualize them in a way
> that is per user (and can be lost or wiped as well). The manifest can
> tell the OS to either ask for elevation of privilege to let it do
> things for all users (the trust box), or to have the app run with
> whatever it can get, or to have the app run without special prvileges.
>
> It sounds like maybe the install has a manifest, but the manifest is
> set to not ask to elevate.
>
> manifests can be modified/added/deleted from finished built exe's as
> long as the exe isn't signed, so if you wanted to play around with the
> manifest settings you could.
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:17 PM, René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > - the pygame installer brings up a bunch of messages about things it can't
> > do... but then manages to install ok.  I think it's trying to do things like
> > set registry keys, but vista is blocking it.  I think this is more the fault
> > of the distutils install maker.  Anyone know about changes needed for vista
> > installers?  For most installers vista pops up a message about "do you trust
> > this installer".  This doesn't happen for the pygame one... so maybe we have
> > to ask vista for permission.
> >
>