So I finished my app, made an installer with Inno Setup, and that installer works fine.
When I made the MSIX package using MSIX Packaging Tool, installed it, and ran the app, I get this error saying it couldn't find the icon in system32. I tried adding some lines in my app's code to help find the path, but it doesn't work.
#original code
current_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
icon_path = os.path.join(current_path, "icon.ico")
#new code
if(not os.path.exists(icon_path)):
tpath = "c:\Program Files (x86)\App Name\icon.ico"
if(os.path.exists(tpath)):
icon_path = tpath
else:
tpath = "d:\Program Files (x86)\App Name\icon.ico"
if(os.path.exists(tpath)):
icon_path = tpath
else:
tpath = "e:\Program Files (x86)\App Name\icon.ico"
if(os.path.exists(tpath)):
icon_path = tpath
else:
tpath = "f:\Program Files (x86)\App Name\icon.ico"
if(os.path.exists(tpath)):
icon_path = tpath
else:
tpath = "c:\Program Files\WindowsApps\AppName_1.0.0.0_x64__s235487e6trvr\VFS\ProgramFilesX86\App Name\icon.ico"
if(os.path.exists(tpath)):
icon_path = tpath
else:
glo = glob.glob("c:\Program Files\WindowsApps\AppNa*")
for filename in glo:
tpath = os.path.join(filename, "VFS\ProgrameFilesX86\App Name\icon.ico")
if(os.path.exists(tpath)):
icon_path = tpath
break
I realize some or most of that code is unnecessary, but I was just trying to fix this annoying issue.
The MSIX installs the app in c:\Program Files\WindowsApps\[some more folders], and I checked the app folder and both the app and the icon are installed there.
So I'm fairly certain that the MSIX Packaging Tool makes the working directory system32, and there are approximately 2 ways to fix this: