Set product name, file description copyright on Windows

[Ivshti]

Currently the .exe is branded as "Electron" and that shows up when right-clicking the app in the task bar, the task manager and several other key places.

This should be implemented in electron-packager as soon as the issue is resolved in rcedit and node-rcedit, because they currently cannot change those resources (CompanyName, FileDescription, LegalCopyright, ProductName).

I'll keep you posted on this.

[junosuarez]

Cross-referencing those issues:

• Change file description and copyright? rcedit#2
• Use Resource Hacker instead of rcedit nwutils/nw-builder#44

[junosuarez]

I found this wrapper to resourcehacker, which is probably the most robust solution for modifying compilied Windows executables https://github.com/felicienfrancois/node-resourcehacker

We may be able to swap out rcedit for this instead.

[Rameshv]

@jden +1 for https://github.com/felicienfrancois/node-resourcehacker sounds like a good alternative. is anybody working on that..??

[junosuarez]

@Rameshv after looking at that repo again, it doesn't appear to be a properly licensed redistribution of resourcehacker... indeed, it's not published on npm. We might be able to make a version of that which downloaded the resourcehacker exe via an npm postinstall script from the original distribution point

[Rameshv]

@jden yep thats my concern too. I made a quick fix by implementing the npm postinstall hook asyou suggested. You can see the PR here felicienfrancois/node-resourcehacker#3. Waiting for the response from the author on this.

Let me know if this works.

[felicienfrancois]

rcedit works pretty well and can do that (I use grunt-rcedit on my electron app).
This is not well documented but all thoose strings are "version-strings".

$ rcedit "path-to-exe" --set-version-string "CompanyName" "MyCompany"
$ rcedit "path-to-exe" --set-version-string "FileDescription" "This is an exe"
$ rcedit "path-to-exe" --set-version-string "LegalCopyright" "Copyright whatever"
$ rcedit "path-to-exe" --set-version-string "ProductName" "MyAwesomeProduct"

To get all the possible keys, you can open the exe with a gui program like resourcehacker or winresourcer

PS: I found this on the grunt-rcedit doc

[Rameshv]

ah cool, thanks @felicienfrancois . yep rcedit works just fine with the version string info.. thanks for the hint.. it saved my day

[Rameshv]

hi @Ivshti , with this #63 merge, you can do this now.. check the readme for more info