Re: [psychopy-users] Re: problem upgrading psychopy to 1.73

[Jonathan Peirce]

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On 01/11/2012 17:20, Jonathan Peirce wrote:

Also, is there any good reason to require users to run as Administrator to do updates?  I do not recall having to do that for any other Windows software.

This isn't my choice, it's just that altering files that are within the program files folder seems to require this. it would be ideal to simply ask the user, at the time of upgrade, for permission to elevate to administrator. But I don't know how to do that yet (and don't really see it as a priority right now).

Looks like we might be able to do something like the following windows (ie have the function that does the file copying as a separate script and launch that using admin level). It will presumably then ask for authentication as admin:

import win32api
win32api.ShellExecute( 0, # parent window
    "runas", # need this to force UAC to act
    "C:\\python27\\python.exe", 
    "moveNewZipFileIntoPlace.py", 
    "C:\\python27", # base dir
    1 ) # window visibility - 1: visible, 0: background

http://blog.pythonaro.com/2011/09/python-wmi-services-and-uac.html

just a thought from a quick google
Jon

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