Packaging MapInfo Professional v10 in ThinApp

[Mr_D2]

I've been trying for a few days to get this app packaged into Thin App. I always end up getting the message 'Unable to create menus/toolbars' when I launch the packaged app. This on the same VM snapshot and with the same user it was captured. The app has a couple of pre-reqs of .NET and VB runtimes, which are already on the client. Changing properties such as use the local .NET and the isolation method make no difference. Worse still, the logs and dependancy walker show no errors at all. I know it uses FlexLM, but at this stage I'm just trying to get it to work under the courtesy period first.

Has anyone sucessfully packaged this app before?

Thanks

Paul

[Lakshman]

Paul,

What is the captured OS and deployment OS?

[Mr_D2]

Windows 7 SP1 x86 for both. VMWare Thinapp 4.7.1

[Lakshman]

I'm trying to download a trail version of MapInfo to check the problem. Though i get lot of results, it would be great if you can post the URL to download.

[Mr_D2]

Not easy now v11 is released.

[Mr_D2]

http://www.pbsoftware.eu/ten/

[Lakshman · Accepted solution]

Paul,

I have download the MapInfo Professional 10 trial, packaged on Win7 32 bit using ThinApp 4.7.1

I could successfully launch the application on a clean Windows 7 32 bit without any issues.

I'm not sure whether the issue you posted is related to the license/activation.

Would you want me to share the ThinApp with you?

[Mr_D2]

I'll see if I can do the same here. Thanks for that.

[Lakshman]

Ok. Please try with 4.7.1 version.

[Mr_D2]

No good. Got the same issue as the full version. I presume you launched the app as part of the capture and set it to WriteCopy isolation mode. I clearly need a new packaging image with nothing but Windows 7.

[Lakshman]

Yes, please launch the application during setup capture right after installing the application (before postscan). I have used Merged Isolation.

It is suggested to capture using a clean machine/VM with just ThinApp installed.

[Mr_D2]

Tried different isolation modes without success. Unfortunately the most basic VM snapshot I have available at the moment includes Win7 SP1, .NET v4, 2 xml runtimes and a VC++ 2008 runtime.

[Lakshman]

I have captured on a clean Win 7 VM (no SP1). Can you try uninstalling the other applications (.NET 4, XML runtime etc) and recapture again?

[Mr_D2]

Once I created a new clean build with only Windows 7 SP1 and no updates or other software, this app packaged first time without issues. Thanks for your assistance.

[Mr_D2]

However...it's not activating in a KMS environment.