BUG: Setup CreateProgmanItem Does Not Overwrite Item (87493)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) 3.1
This article was previously published under Q87493 SYMPTOMS
In the Microsoft Setup Toolkit for Windows, when the setup script calls the
CreateProgmanItem() subroutine to replace an existing item in a Microsoft
Windows Program Manager group with cmo% set to cmoOverwrite and with
szOther$ set to a nonempty string, the setup driver does not replace the
existing item. Instead, it creates a new item.
CAUSE
_MSTEST, the setup driver spawned by SETUP.EXE, incorrectly forms the name
of the item to overwrite if szOther$ is not an empty string. This prevents
_MSTEST from finding an item in the group with the specified name, and it
creates a new item.
RESOLUTION
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in version 3.1 of the Setup
Toolkit for Windows. If the setup script must specify the icon file, icon
resource index, x and y icon position, or working directory, and if it is
unacceptable to potentially have two items of the same name in a group, the
groups must be manipulated through a dynamic data exchange (DDE)
conversation with Program Manager. Add a function that initiates and
manages a DDE conversation with Program Manager to MCUISTF.DLL and call the
function from the setup script.
MORE INFORMATION
Windows 3.0 does not support the cmoOverwrite command option flag for the
CreateProgmanItem() subroutine.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 3/11/2000 |
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| Keywords: | kbbug KB87493 |
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