Forum: Poser Python Scripting


Subject: Best way to help less advanced users to correctly install a Poser script?

HartyBart opened this issue on Oct 28, 2022 ยท 5 posts


HartyBart posted Tue, 01 November 2022 at 2:43 PM

Thanks Ironsoul.  Useful tips.

1. "use unique file naming conventions so less likely to overwrite another persons files" - yes, it might be useful for the .BAT to append a suffix to the copied .PY file(s). And thus prevent an overwrite if the files already exist.

2. "If user runs the script if no install exists" - yes, there should probably be an "Poser 11 not found" fallback message. That would be added, if I released it on Freestuff.

3. "what happens if more than one version of Poser install" - three versions could be supplied. It's just a matter of changing the "Poser 11" wording to Poser 12 or Poser 2014. An advanced user would do that, but it would be easier to supply three files each marked as _P11, _P12, _P2014.

4. Yes I thought of searching the Windows registry, but I wasn't sure what souped-up level of security paranoia level Windows 10 and 11 have for that. The above .BAT file handles the search quickly - and without need for a wildcard to detect either "Smith Micro" or "Poser Software" in the path - by splitting and then rejoining the Program Files path.



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