[PINPOINT-374]  Visual PinPoint - Solve File on Windows 7
Type Bug
Priority Medium
Severity Major
Component Visual PinPoint
Fixed In Version [
Versions Affected [5.15.1
Severity Closed
Resolution Complete
Reported By Bob Denny
Resources Bob Denny
Start Date 2/4/2010

Description
See this Comm Center thread. Inside Visual PinPoint, a folder path is created at startup which points to the same folder as the one Visual PinPoint.exe is installed to. This is where it both creates and opens Solve.txt in Notepad. The same exact path/string is used to create the file as well as commanding Notepad to open it. By the error message you see in Notepad, you can see it is C:\Program Files\PinPoint\Solve.txt (it could be Program Files (x86) if you have a 64 bit system).

However, the Solve.txt file is created in

C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\PinPoint

(again, it could be Program Files (x86)). So Windows 7 is redirecting the file creation to that place outside of Visual PinPoint.

Probable solution is to use a shell special folder (user's tempfile folder, e.g.) for that location.

Comments
2/4/2010 2:20:15 PM   Bob Denny
SVN Comment
Author rbdenny
Repository svn+ssh://rbdenny@a2_svn_dc3/home/rbdenny/svn/astro/pinpoint
SVN Revision 13
Affected files /trunk/Visual PinPoint/Visual PinPoint.vbp (Modified)
/trunk/Visual PinPoint/Visual PinPoint.vbw (Modified)
/trunk/Visual PinPoint/frmMain5.frm (Modified)
Check-in comment Fixing VPP for Windows 7, moved Solve.txt to MyDocuments. GEM:374
2/4/2010 2:19:09 PM   Bob Denny
Issued Visual PinPoint 5.1.1 which moves the Solve.txt location to My Documents. This is just an exe-file replacement.