tlcockpit wrapper missing on windows

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 08:05:06AM +0900, Akira Kakuto wrote:
> Dear Siep,
> 
> > Do you (or Siep or anyone?) know of any other GUI programs which
> > should use wrunscript.exe instead of runscript.exe?
> 
> Files which contain a string "dllwrunscript" are:
> 
> (1) bitmap2eps.exe
>    Modified Sun Apr 24 17:46:33 2011 UTC (8 years, 2 months ago)
>    by trzeciak File length: 8704 byte(s)
> 
> (2) dviout.exe
>    Modified Wed Apr 14 23:53:04 2010 UTC (9 years, 2 months ago)
>    by trzeciak File length: 6656 byte(s)
> 
> (3) epspdftk.exe
>    Modified Sun Mar 25 12:22:54 2018 UTC (15 months, 2 weeks ago)
>    by siepo File length: 11776 byte(s)
> 
> (4) psv.exe
>    Modified Wed Apr 14 23:53:04 2010 UTC (9 years, 2 months ago)
>    by trzeciak File length: 16896 byte(s)
> 
> (5) texdoctk.exe
>    Modified Sat Jun 12 22:42:18 2010 UTC (9 years, 1 month ago)
>    by trzeciak File length: 5120 byte(s)
> 
> (6) texworks.exe
>    Modified Wed Apr 14 23:53:04 2010 UTC (9 years, 2 months ago)
>    by trzeciak File length: 181760 byte(s)
> 
> (7) tlcockpit.exe
>    Modified Thu Jul 11 02:59:13 2019 UTC (19 hours, 38 minutes ago)
>    by preining File length: 11776 byte(s)
> 
> (8) tlshell.exe matches
>    Modified Tue Apr 2 15:11:53 2019 UTC (3 months, 1 week ago)
>    by siepo File length: 14336 byte(s)
> 
> (9) wrunscript.exe
>    Added Wed Aug 30 21:48:09 2017 UTC (22 months, 1 week ago)
>    by kakuto File length: 11776 byte(s).
>    This is a copy of epspdftk.exe by siepo.
> 
> I copied epspdftk.exe by Siep to wrunscript.exe as a parent of GUI
> wrappers. Thus wrunscript.exe == epspdftk.exe == tlcockpit.exe
> at present. Other GUI wrappers seem to be compiled independently.
> Is the present status OK, Siep?

The GUI wrappers can also be compiled with an embedded icon. The
sources, with some documentation, are under
Build/source/texk/texlive/w32_wrapper .

tlshell.exe uses runscript.dll, but has a different main program,
which checks the need for elevation and restarts itself in elevated
mode if necessary before loading runscript.dll. See
Master/source/tlgui/tlshell_UAC.zip . Probably, a copy of
tlshell.exe would work just fine for tlcockpit.

But somehow explorer does not always see the embedded icon.

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg