#4 potential fix for windows support

Author: widkit

src/main.py

@@ -37,10 +37,6 @@ def createConfig():
     flags = ["--color", "--color-bg", "-b"]
     createConfig()
 
-
-# Determine whether to use file-based execution for Windows
-useFile = platform.system().upper() == 'WINDOWS'
-
 # Check if ascii-image-converter needs to be installed
 try:
     subprocess.run(["ascii-image-converter", "--version"], check=True, capture_output=True)
@@ -97,7 +93,7 @@ def createConfig():
 
 # Convert the image to colorful ASCII using ascii-image-converter and print it.
 try:
-    binary_name = "ascii-image-converter.exe" if useFile else "ascii-image-converter"
+    binary_name = r"C:\Program Files\TheZoraiz\ascii-image-converter\ascii-image-converter.exe" if platform.system().upper() == 'WINDOWS' else "ascii-image-converter"
     subprocess.run([binary_name, *flags, image_file], check=True)
 except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
     print(f"Error running ascii-image-converter: {e}")

src/setup.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import os, subprocess, platform, shutil, tarfile, zipfile, yaml, sys, requests
+import os, subprocess, platform, shutil, tarfile, zipfile, yaml, sys, requests, ctypes
 
 def main():
     # Detect the operating system and architecture to select the correct binary for ascii-image-converter
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ def main():
     # Detect the architecture and the OS, set the release name 
     match system:
         case 'WINDOWS':
+            if os.getuid() == 0:
+                print("Running as administrator.")
+            else:
+                print("Please run the program with administrator rights for setup.")
+                sys.exit(1)
             useFile = True
             match machine:
                 case 'AMD64' | 'X86_64':
@@ -118,6 +123,7 @@ def main():
         print("Error extracting file: Unsupported file format.")
         sys.exit(1)
 
+
     # Check if the operating system is not Windows
     if system != 'WINDOWS':
         if system == 'LINUX': # Assign the platform to match the binary name
@@ -133,6 +139,12 @@ def main():
         except Exception as e:
             print(f"Failed to move binaries: {e}")
             sys.exit(1)
+    else:
+        os.makedirs("C:\\Program Files\\TheZoraiz\\ascii-image-converter")
+        os.makedirs("C:\\Program Files\\widkit\\greetings")
+        binary_path = os.path.join(extract_dir, releaseName.replace('.zip', '.exe'), 'ascii-image-converter')
+        subprocess.run([ "mv", binary_path, "C:\\Program Files\\TheZoraiz\\ascii-image-converter"], check=True)
+        subprocess.run([ "cp", "greetings-windows", "C:\\Program Files\\widkit\\greetings\\greetings.exe"], check=True)
 
     # Cleanup
     print("Cleaning up...")