Native windows gnuclient/winclient setup kit

[Adrian Aichner]

"Vin Shelton" <acs at alumni.princeton.edu> writes:

> Hi Adrian -
>
> On 9/22/07, Adrian Aichner <adrian at xemacs.org> wrote:
>> > As an alternative to folding the gnuclient sources into the XEmacs
>> > tree, I have developed a Windows-native gnuclient setup kit.  (Thanks,
>> > Adrian, for helping me debug the kit.)  This kit will add gnuclient
>> > and gnuserv functionality to the Windows-native XEmacs already
>> > installed on your computer.  I have copied the setup kit to
>> > http://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/windows/testing/gnuclient_setup.exe.
>> > If you're interested, please download and run the kit.
>>
>> Hi Vin, that kit works even better:
>>
>> I noticed that uninstalling the previous gnusclient 2.0 installation leaves the gnuserv.exe
>> and gnuclient*.exe files around in the installed XEmacsen's i586-pc-win32 dirrectories.  It
>> does remove them and the source code folder from from C:\Program Files\XEmacs
>> though.
>
> Yes, until this weekend, uninstall support was incomplete.  I have
> just uploaded a new version that uninstalls all the .exe files and
> undoes the site-start.el modifications.

Ah, great.

>
>> There's still multiple DOS prompt boxes popping up per XEmacs installation being
>> upgraded with gnuclient 2.0 functionality.
>
> I managed to remove the pop-ups by invoking xemacs.exe through the
> i.exe executable.  This makes setup think that it's invoking a
> non-graphical application (which "xemacs -batch" is, really).

Oh, I should have thought of that, but have forgotten all about i.exe.

I have one more issue to report:

When xemacs.exe is not already running when 

gnuclientw cannot start XEmacs, if not yet running, I get:

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c:\Program Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.5-b28\i586-pc-win32\gnuclientw.exe
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Could not start runemacs
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OK   
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I use Firefox Add-on ViewSourceWith 0.0.9.1 with following setting:

Editor path: c:\Program Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.5-b28\i586-pc-win32\gnuclientw.exe

Best regards!

Adrian

>
> Regards,
>   Vin

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