Following Guenter's instructions (and warnings), upgrading GRE to 1.8.0.9 is easy and straightforward. It took me about 30 seconds, including the double checking. The 'about' menu now shows "rv:1.8.0.9". Everything seems to work. (Cross your fingers). There seems to be no obvious reason not to update the 'official' release in the download page.

Happy 2007 to all!

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jmillar
There seems to be no obvious reason not to update the 'official' release in the download page.

gklayout.dll is patched for official releases( it is done to get rid of a minor bug )

But anyone can use 1.02pro.exe & GRE 1.8.0.9 as update with official release ;-)

BTW. I use the official German K-Meleon1.02de-AT with 1.02pro.exe & GRE 1.8.0.9.
So with Quicksilver tears gift those that want can update national versions too thanks to the clever way Dorian has constructed K-Meleon language support :-)

& we can also use 1.8.1 GRE for updates.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/30/2006 07:23PM by guenter.

I have worked on the batch file by Holger Metzler and now have one that seems to work for me. This is for testing and to get feedback right now.

@echo off
cls
echo.
echo.
echo This BATCH job will update K-Meleon to the latest Seamonkey GRE.
echo We assume that the new Seamonkey files reside in F:\SeaMonkey
echo We also assume that the K-Meleon location is F:\K-Meleon
echo.
echo If this is NOT the case abort now by pressing "CTRL+C", then "Y"
echo.
echo Edit the bat file and change F: to the file locations where your
echo programs reside. Note: there are four places to change.
pause
echo.
echo.

xcopy f:\seamonkey\components\*.* f:\K-Meleon\components\ /U /Q /Y
del f:\K-Meleon\components\xpti.dat
del f:\K-Meleon\components\compreg.dat

echo.
echo Two files (xpti.dat and compreg.dat) deleted.
echo These two files will be re-created when K-Meleon is next run.
echo.
echo All done.
pause

I have put a lot of echo/comments in there because my memory needs all the help it can get. This only changes some DLL and JS in the COMPONENTS directory. The /U switch on the XCOPY line means that only files which exist in the destination directory are copied.

The line in HELP ABOUT which shows the GRE version is not updated by this. Does anyone know how this line gets it information? If you use this batch file, be sure to back up your K-Meleon. So far this is for TESTING ONLY!

echo hi James:
echo Great!
rem comment:
rem ./componets/profile.dll must be AFAIK from k-meleon1.02 official, pro

rem or a local version of 1.02 & not any other Mozilla / except maybe k-m 1.0.

rem (If k-m has problem with finding profiles use that/this has changed since 0.9)

rem AFAIK update also all files in plugins and root -

rem add perhaps

echo updating Netscape Plugins folder:

xcopy f:\seamonkey\plugins\*.* f:\K-Meleon\plugings\ /U /Q /Y

rem ( that is only the default plugin: npnul32.dll )

rem root: selected files in root - level of k-meleon.exe

echo updating K-Meleon Root folder, xpcom.dll and some other dll:

xcopy f:\seamonkey\*.* f:\K-Meleon\ /U /Q /Y

rem p. s. You can also find a 0.9 update batch from 2005, Andrew Mutch in Forum.

rem But I do not recall wehther it was as refined as Yours.

rem You can update xpcom etc. for some GRE below 1.9.X.



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/03/2007 06:31PM by guenter.

I am still running into problems. I have added root, plugins, res, and toolkit.jar from chrome to the batch file. It reports 9 files copied from root, 12 files copied from components, 1 file copied from plugins, 1 file copied from chrome and 3 files copied from res. Problem is that help about now reports I am SeaMonkey 1.0.7 rev 1.8.0.7 Do I have too many directories involved now?

Do not add/change chrome jar/files. Many contain some edited files.
Chiefly pippki & toolkit - all our jars contain less files.
Chrome, res change only slowly - normally not woth the extra effort.

components = 43 (all dll except profile.dll )

1.0.7 rev 1.8.0.7 should be possibly older gklayout.dll
( best use k-m.exe from pro if You use unpatched gklayout.dll).

There should be no limit - cut out my rem and echo
- maybe a fault with the additions.

in case there is a limit: xxcopy http://xxcopy.softonic.de/ie/10857
AFAIK free for private use, more powerfull.

btw. Fred published 0.9+ with 1.8.1 GRE for use with Linux.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/04/2007 04:58AM by guenter.

Guenter, thank you for all your help and everybody else too. I got it at last. My error all along. I had installed SeaMonkey (browser only) instead of using the zip file for the suite. You had talked about xpcom.dll in a post here. There was no xpcom.dll in the browser only version. I loaded the zip to f:\moz and ran the batch file without the copy of toolkit.jar and it worked. The help about panel looks right now. I copied 17 files in KM root, 45 files in componets, 1 file in plugins, and 18 files in res.

James, browser only = so You found that too.
Its is the EASY way to pre-select when Mozilla.org changed composition :-)
But we do have too do the extra work normaly.

The missing part the GRE is in program files/shared Ffile/Mozilla.org/version and date of the GRE
( like 1.7.12_2006020307 which is the last version i updated like that ).



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/05/2007 12:00AM by guenter.