PRB: FoxPro Icon in .EXE Won't Install with Norton Desktop 3.0

ID: Q114138

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft FoxPro for Windows Distribution Kit, versions 2.5x, 2.6

SYMPTOMS

By using ADDICON.APP, you can embed an icon in a FoxPro for Windows .EXE file. If you use the Setup Wizard to create a set of setup disks, you can specify which group the icon should appear in inside Program Manager. However, after a user runs the Setup program, the icon that is installed is the standard FoxPro icon, not the icon you specified in ADDICON.APP. No error message is received during installation.

CAUSE

Norton Desktop 3.0 is running instead of the Windows Program Manager.

The SETUP.EXE file used by FoxPro uses Windows API function calls to set up the icon in the Program Manager. Norton Desktop does not recognize these calls and uses the FoxPro default icon instead.

RESOLUTION

If the Setup disks are to work correctly, Program Manager must be used as the Windows shell.

To set up the icon, do one of the following:

Method 1

Have the user change the icon manually using Norton Desktop.

Method 2

1. Open the user's SYSTEM.INI file.

2. In the [boot] section, put a semicolon (;) at the beginning of the

   "SHELL=NDW.EXE" line. This will comment the line out.

      SHELL=PROGMAN.EXE

3. Reinstall the .EXE file built with FoxPro.

This will correctly install the icon. Once this is done, reenable Norton Desktop by commenting out the "SHELL=PROGMAN.EXE" line and uncommenting the "SHELL=NDW.EXE" line and then restarting Windows.

MORE INFORMATION

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