In Steam, we can configure multiple directories/folders where it will look for applications. It is found in the menu Steam->Settings->Downloads->STEAM LIBRARY FOLDERS dialog.
Where can I find those settings if I'm looking programatically from outside Steam?
I'm more interested in the location for the Windows client.
Found it. On Windows they are stored in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\libraryfolders.vdf, and you also have to add Steam's install folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam
Here's a sample Python script to extract the information:
import re
with open(r"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\libraryfolders.vdf") as f:
folders = [r"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam"]
lf = f.read()
folders.extend([fn.replace("\\\\", "\\") for fn in
re.findall('^\s*"\d*"\s*"([^"]*)"', lf, re.MULTILINE)])
I found it here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\config\config.vdf
There's a line in that file:
"BaseInstallFolder_1" "{YourSteamLibraryFolder}"
So I just open it with Notepad then Ctrl+F search 'Base'.
If that line is not in there:
Open Steam. > Sign into you account. > 'Steam'. > 'Settings'.
Then click on 'Downloads'. > 'STEAM LIBRARY FOLDERS'.
Make an empty folder somewhere.
Click on 'ADD LIBRARY FOLDER'.
Browse to the empty folder you made. > Click on 'SELECT'.
If you then look at the config.vdf again; there should be a line like this:
"BaseInstallFolder_1" "{YourNewEmptySteamLibraryFolder}"
If Steam hasn't been installed in the default location in Windows, you can find it in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, on path SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Valve\Steam. Here's how I found it in Kotlin:
private val steamFolder: File = File(WinRegistry.getString(
WinRegistry.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
"SOFTWARE\\Wow6432Node\\Valve\\Steam",
"InstallPath"))
You can then find the libraryfolders.vdf and config.vdf files, as per the other answers.
In each of those library folders you'll find files called appmanifest_<id>.acf, where <id> is the id of the game (find it in Properties / Updates on Steam). If you're looking for a particular game, that will help to determine which folder the game is in, if there's more than one game install location.
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I am trying to make a naoqi package with qipkg (I dont know if this problem is specific to aldebaran naoqi or if it is a general windows problem)
qipkg make-package Pepper-Demo.pml
but I get the folowing error:
NotInPath Could not find executable: lrelease
qipkg deploy-package is working as it should.
I solved it with the folowing steps:
Check if there is a .exe file called lrelease in the folder at:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Softbank Robotics\Choregraphe Suite 2.5\bin
If not, search for the file on your computer using search in file explorer.
The error message displayed in which folders it searched for.
Go to the first folder it searched in (or create it) and paste the lrelease file.
I have a lot of troubles following the instructions form the Kivy website, many steps aren't explained like what should I answer to the warning.
WARNING: The output directory "..." and ALL ITS CONTENTS will be REMOVED! Continue? (y/n)
Even if I choose y, the folder isn't removed.
Also should I always add these lines:
from kivy.deps import sdl2, glew
Tree('C:\\Users\\<username>\\Desktop\\MyApp\\'),
*[Tree(p) for p in (sdl2.dep_bins + glew.dep_bins)]
in the .spec file? Why are they necessary?
Not many info is available for Kivy.
Because I spent a lot of time understanding how I should package my app, here are some instructions that would have really helped me.
Some info are available at http://pythonhosted.org/PyInstaller/
Python 3.6 as of march 2017
Because packaging my app gave me the error IndexError: tuple index out of range, I had to install the developement version of PyInstaller:
pip install https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/archive/develop.zip
Step 1:
I moved all the files of MyApp in a folder "C:\Users\<username>\Desktop\MyApp": the .py, the .kv and the images and I created an icon.ico.
I created another folder C:\Users\<username>\Desktop\MyPackagedApp. In this folder I press Shift+right click and select open command window here.
Then I pasted this:
python -m PyInstaller --name MyApp --icon "C:\Users\<username>\Desktop\MyApp\icon.ico" "C:\Users\<username>\Desktop\MyApp\myapp.py"
This creates two folders, build and dist, and a .spec file. In dist/MyApp, I can find a .exe. Apparently, if my app is really simple (just one label), the packaged app can works without the Step 2.
Step 2:
The second step involves editing the .spec file. Here is an exemple of mine.
(cf Step 3, for the explanations about my_hidden_modules)
I go back to the cmd, and enter
python -m MyApp myapp.spec
I then got this warning:
WARNING: The output directory "..." and ALL ITS CONTENTS will be REMOVED! Continue? (y/n)
I enter y and then press enter.
Because I choosed y, I was surpised that the folder build was still there and that the dist/MyApp was still containing many files. But this is normal. PyInstaller can output a single file .exe or a single folder which contains all the script’s dependencies and an executable file. But the default output is a single folder with multiple files.
Step 3: adding hidden modules
When I click on the myapp.exe in dist/MyApp, the app crashed. In the log C:\Users\.kivy\logs\ I could find 2 errors: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'win32timezone' and SystemError: <class '_frozen_importlib._ModuleLockManager'>.
Because of this I had to edit the .spec file and add these lines:
my_hidden_modules = [
( 'C:\\Users\\<username>\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Python\\Python36\\Lib\\site-packages\\win32\\lib\\win32timezone.py', '.' )
]
in a = Analysis I changed datas = [] to datas = my_hidden_modules,
Apparently this is because I used a FileChooser widget.
So, the line:
ALL ITS CONTENTS will be REMOVED!
yes, it will be removed AND replaced later with new files. Check the date. I think it prints permission denied if it can't do such a thin both for files and the whole folder, so you'd notice it. It's important though, because you need to add additional files into your folder.
Those additional files of two types:
kivy dependencies
application data
Dependencies are just binaries (+/- loaders, licenses, or so), you get them through the *[Tree(p) ...] piece of code, which is just a command for "get all files from that folder". Without them Kivy won't even start.
Similarly to that, the second Tree(<app folder>) does the same, but for your own files such as .py files, .kv files, images, music, databases, basically whatever you create.
Obviously if you remove the deps, app won't start and if you remove app data, you'll get some path errors and most likely crash. You don't want any of that :P
It also works if in the 'a = Analysis...' block in the spec file one substitutes
hiddenimports=[]
for
hiddenimports=['win32file', 'win32timezone']
for win32file, win32timezone or for whatever files are missing
I'm making an installer for an application which has a custom URI scheme and its own file type to open with it. The application executed with a launcher.bat, In the registry I've set the launcher.bat to do so. It works as it should be, unless I want to register the application wit its name to be shown as opening application both in exporer and browsers instead of launcher.bat.
The registry file that applied by the installer script is the following (it is gets generated dynamically, so don't mind the application path as well):
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
; ---- Add myext extension
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.myext]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.myext]
"content-type"="application/myext+xml"
#="myapp"
; ---- Add myapp for protocol
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\myapp]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\myapp]
#="URL:<Application Protocol>"
"URL Protocol"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\myapp\DefaultIcon]
#="MyApplication.exe,1"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\myapp\shell]
#="open"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\myapp\shell\open]
#="Open with My Application"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\myapp\open\command]
#="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\My Application\\launcher.bat\" \"%1\""
What else should I add to the registry to do so?
First name your type:
assoc .<ext> <anyName>
And then set the program to open:
ftype <anyName>=<application-path>
Replace all names in angle-brackets with your names:
<ext>: the extension
<anyName>: a name, where windows knows wich program to use, you could assoc multiple times with different extensions
<application-path>: the filename of the program to open it.
After a few days of digging, I have found the solution:
The registry above assigns extension to the launcher (or any executable) to open it with, but the OS only shows the executable name as the associated program - which is fine, because It wasn't registred. This could be shown on the properties window of the file which are associated to, in exprorer, when you right click on the file and choose open with, and even in browesers when a URI scheme is registed.
To do so, the application has to be registred as well in the registry. After digging the internet, finally found on MSDN the extra registry changes that does so.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\MyApplicationLauncher.bat]
FriendlyAppName = "My Application"
DefaultIcon = "<MyApplicationPath>\MyApplication.exe,1"
Note that using application names like launcher.bat or start.bat might cause conflicts; to prove its uniqueness, I had to rename it in the installer package to identify it.
I'm trying to add the syntax plugin for the Go programming language in Notepad++.
There is a repository for such user-defined languages. I downloaded and unzipped the Go files, which contained a README, a userDefinedLang_Go.xml, and go.xml.
I attempted to follow the instructions at the bottom of the page as follows. Since I am using Windows 7 (x64), my Notepad++ directory is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++".
Having not installed a user defined language before, I didn't have a userDefinedLang.xml file already, so I copied userDefinedLang_Go.xml into the root directory, and renamed it to remove the "_Go", making it userDefinedLang.xml.
I then copied go.xml into C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins\APIs\
This seems to be all of the steps necessary. However, when I open Notepad++, there is no "Go" near "Lang => User Defined", and there is no syntactic coloring on a .go file. Attempting to import via "View => User-Defined Dialogue => import" gives a "fail to import" error.
What am I doing wrong? I'm using a clean installation of Notepad++, which is version 6.1.8.
I had to put my userDefineLang.xml file in my AppData\Roaming folder:
C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++
New install of Notepad++ 6.4.5 on Windows 7 64 bit
Download from Notepad++ site:
http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php?title=User_Defined_Language_Files#G
Copy "go.xml" to C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins\APIs.
The default install doesn't have any user-defined languages, so you can do this:
Copy "userDefineLang_Go.xml" to C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++
Remove the "_Go" from the file name, so it's "userDefineLang.xml"
Uncomment the opening and closing "NotepadPlus" tags.
(If you already have a userDefineLang.xml then add the content from the _Go file.)
Restart Notepad++.
I just got it working on my system after some tinkering. Put this at the top of the userDefinedLang.xml file and the go.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252" ?>
That should do the trick (after reopening Notepad++).
go.xml should be in the plugins/APIs folder, and userDefinedLang.xml goes in the root of Notepad++ as you said.
Something other answers do not discuss: Some older versions of Notepad++ do not appear to work with any of these answers.
I tried pretty much all the solutions before upgrading Notepad++ to version 6.4.2.
xkcd 979
Tested Notepad++ versions:
5.9 - not working - tested by namey
6.4.2 - working - tested by Elysian Fields
6.6.9 - working - tested by namey
For other versions your mileage may vary.
I share the solution I found for Notepad++ 6.5, because I had the same issue than the previous messages.
If not done, do the install steps explained in go\misc\notepadplus\README (userDefineLang.xml,functionList.xml,APIs).
When you don 't have useDefineLang.xml in Notepad++, create one using the file from go\misc\notepadplus\useDefineLang.xml, but don't forget to add the first line <?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252" ?>
and uncomment NotepadPlus part to have <NotepadPlus> at the beginning and </NotepadPlus> at the end.
Change in functionList.xml: <association ext=".go" id="go"/> BY <association userDefinedLangName="go" id="go"/>
As I didn't have any userDefineLang.xml file by default in Notepad++, I imported this file using the menu Language → Define your language → *Import.
Then stop/start Notepad++.
Check that Go is in the Language menu at the end of the list.
Open a .go file. If the color doesn't change automatically click on go in /Language menu
All were OK after that for me (indentation, color, autocompletion, etc.).
I added pl/sql language syntax to Notepad++. The syntax /language was on the web. Here's how I got it to work ...
Open the XML file using Notepad and added <?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252" ?> to the very beginning, as David had suggested. Then save it to userDefinedLang_plsql.xml
Paste the file in the Notepad++ root directory.
I also copied it into C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\plugins\APIs\, and navigated to menu Languages → Userdefined, but it did nothing.
So, I then went to menu Languages → Define your language and selected pl/sql from the drop down, renamed it, and saved it in that dialog window.
The new language then it appeared in the language dialog at the end.
userDefineLang resides in C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++\userDefineLang.xml.
Make sure your Notepad++ is installed under "C:\Program Files(86)", and not under "C:\npp.#.#.#.bin" folder.
And download from https://notepad-plus-plus.org/download. Or simply google "Download Notepad++".
Check out a sample Scala language userDefineLang.xml file here: https://github.com/nfang/scala-syntax-highlighter
If you don't have any user languages defined before, then after renaming userDefinedLang_Go.xml to userDefinedLang.xml, also edit the text of file by adding the tags <NotepadPlus></NotepadPlus> around the original content.
I am getting a warning when trying to include the .net 3.5 sp1 prerequisite for my setup project. The warning states Prerequisite could not found for bootstrapping.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
I followed the directions in 2.3.1.1 Enable Samesite for the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 bootstrapper package and now everything works perfect.
Thanks
Ultimately, having had the same issue as the creator Ryan, I solved my delima by folling these steps:
Update the Package Data
Open the [Program Files]\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\DotNetFx35SP1 folder or %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\DotNetFx35SP1 on x64 operating systems
Edit the Product.xml file in Notepad.
Paste the following into the < PackageFiles > element:
<PackageFile Name="TOOLS\clwireg.exe"/>
<PackageFile Name="TOOLS\clwireg_x64.exe"/>
<PackageFile Name="TOOLS\clwireg_ia64.exe"/>
Find the element for < PackageFile Name="dotNetFX30\XPSEPSC-x86-en-US.exe" and change the PublicKey value to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
Find the element for < PackageFile Name="dotNetFX30\XPSEPSC-amd64-en-US.exe" and change the PublicKey value to the same as in step 4 above
Save the product.xml file
Download and Extract the Core Installation Files
Navigate to the following URL: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=118080
Download the dotNetFx35.exe file to your local disk.
Open a Command Prompt window and change to the directory to which you downloaded dotNetFx35.exe.
At the command prompt, type:
dotNetFx35.exe /x:.
This will extract the Framework files to a folder named “WCU” in the current directory.
Copy the contents of the WCU\dotNetFramework folder and paste them in the %Program Files%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\DotNetFx35SP1 folder (%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\DotNetFx35SP1 on x64 operating systems). Note: Do not copy the WCU\dotNetFramework folder itself. There should be 5 folders under the WCU folder, and each of these should now appear in the DotNetFx35SP1 folder. The folder structure should resemble the following:
o DotNetFx35SP1 (folder)
dotNetFX20 (folder
dotNetFX30 (folder)
dotNetFX35 (folder)
dotNetMSP (folder)
TOOLS folder)
en (or some other localized folder)
dotNetFx35setup.exe (file)
You may now delete the files and folders you downloaded and extracted in steps 2 and 4.
Found at Microsoft Solutions
For VS 2015, here is a very simple solution (including some Michael Eakins answer):
Download the installer here:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=118080
Extract / open with 7zip or Winrar and extract the contence to a folder
Copy/move everything under the extracted folder "wcu\dotNetFramework" path to:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 4.0\SDK\Bootstrapper\Packages\DotNetFX35SP1
Publish in VS2015