Executable selected not opening after packaged

[btrabue]

Hello -

I have thinapped LakeSide's Systrack Admin tools and after the package was built I tried to open the Analysis tool executable and it is not recognized by the dat file.  Both the executabled that I have selected during the build process will not open.  I did test the application prior to building the package and it did open on the computer.  Does anyone have any ideas?

Attached is the package.ini file.  Do a search for Analysis tools and Deployment Tool.  These are the two shortcuts that I am trying to link to the dat file.

Thank you in advance!!

[Squidly_Man]

Please check the version of ThinApp you are building with.  You captured with ThinApp 4.6.1 but if you are building with an earlier version of ThinApp, you need to change the ReadOnlyData to bin\Package.ro.tvr in order to build with older versions (4.6.0 or earlier) of ThinApp.

-Dean F.

http://pubs.vmware.com/thinapp4/help/

[btrabue]

I did capture with 4.6.1 so I doubt that what you mention will help.  I did try it and it did not make a difference.  Weird that the links have the flying windows icon and when it is accessed I am prompted with a screen asking me what application I would like to use to open it.  I have never seen this before.  

[Squidly_Man · Accepted solution]

To clarify, the issue I am speaking of occurs when one captures with ThinApp 4.6.1 and the builds with ThinApp 4.6.0 or earlier without modifying the PACKAGE.INI settings mentioned above.  An example would be, you capture on one system and then copy the project out to a network share and use ThinApp on another system to build that project into a package (not realizing the ThinApp version used to build is an older version).

As for your issue, I went back and looked at the PACKAGE.INI file and your entry points which are enabled do not have an ending ".EXE" in the section title.  This is needed.

Your Entry Point:

[Analysis Tools]
Source=%ProgramFilesDir%\SysTrackTools\Analyze.exe
Shortcut=SysTrack Admin Tools.dat
workingDirectory=%ProgramFilesDir%\SysTrackTools\
Shortcuts=%Desktop%;%programs%\Systrack

What it should be:

[Analysis Tools.exe]
Source=%ProgramFilesDir%\SysTrackTools\Analyze.exe
Shortcut=SysTrack Admin Tools.dat
workingDirectory=%ProgramFilesDir%\SysTrackTools\
Shortcuts=%Desktop%;%programs%\Systrack

NOTE:  I bolded and change the color to red on the one change I made (adding the ".exe" in the entry point name).

To read more on entry points and how they work, see the ThinApp Blogs article "ThinApp Data Containers, Entry Points, and DATs - Oh My!".

Also see the Online Pubs article "Defining Entry Points as Shortcuts into the Virtual Environment"

-Dean F.

http://pubs.vmware.com/thinapp4/help/