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MVP

Mar 24, 2019

GetShortPathName

NOTE: This might not be a PSF issue but one that needs to be solved elsewhere in the system? Repackaged Blender 2.7.6 x64 using the MPT and the PSF for File Redirection so that the app can see ...

Johannes Freundorfer

Copper Contributor

Mar 27, 2019

Tim ManganHi Tim,

I saw this kind of issues as well. Some applications might work with a workaround. Try this:

invoke a process inside the Namespace Invoke-CommandInDesktopPackage

Sample for FreeCommander
Invoke-CommandInDesktopPackage -PackageFamilyName FreeCommanderXE-32_dcsc6zw6cdwca -AppId "FREECOMMANDER" -Command cmd.exe

Inside try to execute the app from within the native path i.e.:

C:\program files (x86)\...

or the 8.3 path

C:\progra~1\..

This helps quite often and can be solved with a standard wrapper - or psf in the future.

I'll try Blender myself later the week.

Enjoy

/Johannes

TIMOTHY_MANGAN

MVP

Mar 27, 2019

Johannes Freundorfer Thanks. But we are repacking a vendor installer into MSIX, so we don't have access to the source code. ...and it's probably unmanaged code anyway...

Bogdan Mitrache
Iron Contributor
Apr 09, 2019
Hi TIMOTHY_MANGAN

We made a test with Blender in Advanced Installer 15.9 ( I included a link for you to get this RC) and the MSIX packaged app runs ok.

Are we missing something from your test?

From here you can get the package and project built with AI 15.9.
- TIMOTHY_MANGAN
  MVP
  Apr 09, 2019
  Bogdan Mitrache
  
  Training folks this week so I won't be able to look at it (I'm often brave about updating software on the fly but I'd rather show these folks the 15.6 I know on our first training class on MSIX). My package was made using the MPT, so maybe you are doing some great magic, or maybe it is the version I used (2.76b) or how I test. I can privately send you my package and the installer for that version in the interim.