App-V 5.0 connection group odd behavior

I am having some odd behavior with an application that I've packaged in App-V 5.0. We are running App-V for RDS on Server 2012, and I'm on SP2.
The problem I'm having is with a program called SQL Tools 1.6 (a 3rd party tool, not from MS or Oracle). It's a fairly straightforward program, and it runs fine on App-V 4.6. But it requires an Oracle client to run. On App-V 4.6, we have
the Oracle client installed locally on the server. But with App-V 5, I wanted to make use of connection groups, so that we could use multiple Oracle versions, if necessary, and so that updating Oracle would be easier. So I have a connection group
that contains SQL Tools and the Oracle client.
What is happening is that when I try to launch SQL Tools, I get an error saying it can't find OCI.DLL (which is in the Oracle path). I took apart both packages, trying to make sure that the Oracle path variable was correct. I even added the Oracle
path to the SQL Tools package (I even tried hard-coding the local path to the Oracle package). I always get the same error. I also swapped the priority of the two packages, but it didn't help. Then I tried launching a command prompt in the
context of the SQL Tools package. When I checked the path variable, it was correct, and had the path to oci.dll. Out of curiosity, I tried running SQL Tools, and it launched no problem. Then I closed it and tried to launch it from the shortcut
on the desktop, and got the same error as before. I've tried launching it from various places (desktop shortcut, direct path to the executable, a command prompt without specifying the context of the SQL Tools package, etc.), checking compatibility mode
and setting it to various settings (XP SP3, Windows 7, Run as Administrator on and off, etc.), but nothing seems to work except opening a command prompt in the context of the SQL Tools package, and then running SQL Tools from there. As a workaround,
I created this short script that launches a command prompt in the context of the SQL Tools package, and then runs SQL Tools from that command prompt:
$p = Get-AppvClientPackage -Name "SQL Tools 1.6"
$cmd = '"C:\ProgramData\App-V\BB0D9EC0-3876-42EB-A5E9-92A149D52FB5\37F941F9-B4BA-425F-9FB4-9B699843E767\Root\VFS\ProgramFilesX86\SQLTools 1.6\SQLTools.exe"'
Start-AppvVirtualProcess -FilePath cmd.exe -ArgumentList "/k $cmd" -AppvClientObject $p
It works, but I would rather not have to use this type of workaround for something that should work natively.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Sam

Hello,
What happens if you launch CMD instead of your tool when starting an application, and from that CMD you start sqltools.exe
So the command to start the application would be;
cmd.exe /c sqltools.exe
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                    int ox = dstOut.getMinX() + sx - src.getMinX();
                    int oy = dstOut.getMinY() + sy - src.getMinY();
                    if(ox < dstOut.getMinX() || ox >= dstOut.getMinX() + dstOut.getWidth()) continue;
                    if(oy < dstOut.getMinY() || oy >= dstOut.getMinY() + dstOut.getHeight()) continue;
                    dstPixel = dstIn.getPixel(ox, oy, dstPixel);
                    float mergeFactor = 1.0f * (cy - 100) / 100;
                    dstPixel[0] = merge(mergeFactor, srcPixel[0], dstPixel[0]);
                    dstPixel[1] = merge(mergeFactor, srcPixel[1], dstPixel[1]);
                    dstPixel[2] = merge(mergeFactor, srcPixel[2], dstPixel[2]);
                    dstOut.setPixel(ox, oy, dstPixel);
        protected int merge(float mergeFactor, int src, int dst) {
            return (int) (mergeFactor * src + (1.0f - mergeFactor) * dst);
        public void dispose() {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new TestCustomComposite2();
}

I got a better version to work as expected. Though there will probably be issues with the transformation to display coordinates as mentioned before. At least figured out some of the kinks of using a custom Composite/CompositeContext object.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class TestCustomComposite2
extends JFrame
implements ActionListener {
    private JCheckBox useCompositeChk, useAntialiasingChk, useCompositeContextChk;
    private Shape clippingShape = new Ellipse2D.Float(100, 100, 100, 100);
    private MergeComposite composite = new MergeComposite();
    public TestCustomComposite2() {
        super("Test Custom Composite");
        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        JPanel cp = (JPanel) getContentPane();
        cp.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        cp.add(new TestCanvas(), BorderLayout.CENTER);
        JPanel panel = new JPanel(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT, 0, 0));
        panel.add(useCompositeChk = new JCheckBox("Use Composite", true));
        useCompositeChk.addActionListener(this);
        panel.add(useCompositeContextChk = new JCheckBox("Use Composite Context", true));
        useCompositeContextChk.addActionListener(this);
        panel.add(useAntialiasingChk = new JCheckBox("Use Antialiasing"));
        useAntialiasingChk.addActionListener(this);
        cp.add(panel, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
        pack();
        setVisible(true);
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
        useCompositeContextChk.setEnabled(useCompositeChk.isSelected());
        invalidate();
        repaint();
    private class TestCanvas
    extends JComponent {
        public TestCanvas() {
            setSize(300, 300);
            setPreferredSize(getSize());
        public void paint(Graphics gfx) {
            Dimension size = getSize();
            Graphics2D gfx2D = (Graphics2D) gfx;
            gfx2D.setColor(Color.GRAY);
            gfx2D.fillRect(0, 0, size.width, size.height);
            RenderingHints rh = null;
            if(useAntialiasingChk.isSelected()) {
                rh = gfx2D.getRenderingHints();
                gfx2D.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
            Rectangle r = clippingShape.getBounds();
            //gfx2D.setColor(Color.GREEN);
            //gfx2D.drawRect(r.x, r.y, r.width, r.height);
            gfx2D.setColor(Color.YELLOW);
            gfx2D.fill(clippingShape);
            Composite oldComposite = null;
            if(useCompositeChk.isSelected()) {
                oldComposite = gfx2D.getComposite();
                gfx2D.setComposite(composite);
            gfx2D.setColor(Color.ORANGE);
            gfx2D.fillRect(r.x, r.y, r.width + 1, r.height + 1);
            if(oldComposite != null)
                gfx2D.setComposite(oldComposite);
            if(rh != null)
                gfx2D.setRenderingHints(rh);
    public class MergeComposite
    implements Composite, CompositeContext {
        public CompositeContext createContext(ColorModel srcColorModel,
                                              ColorModel dstColorModel,
                                              RenderingHints hints) {
            return this;
        public void compose(Raster src,
                            Raster dstIn,
                            WritableRaster dstOut) {
//            dumpRaster("SRC   ", src);
//            dumpRaster("DSTIN ", dstIn);
//            dumpRaster("DSTOUT", dstOut);
//            System.out.println();
            if(dstIn != dstOut)
                dstOut.setDataElements(0, 0, dstIn);
            if(!useCompositeContextChk.isSelected())
                return;
            int[] srcPixel = null;
            int[] dstPixel = null;
            int w = Math.min(src.getWidth(), dstIn.getWidth());
            int h = Math.min(src.getHeight(), dstIn.getHeight());
            int xMax = src.getMinX() + w;
            int yMax = src.getMinY() + h;
            for(int x = src.getMinX(); x < xMax; x++) {
                for(int y = src.getMinY(); y < yMax; y++) {
                    try {
                        // THIS MIGHT NOT WORK ALL THE TIME
                        int cx = x - dstIn.getSampleModelTranslateX();
                        int cy = y - dstIn.getSampleModelTranslateY();
                        if(!clippingShape.contains(cx, cy)) {
                            dstPixel = dstIn.getPixel(x, y, dstPixel);
                            dstOut.setPixel(x, y, dstPixel);
                        else {
                            srcPixel = src.getPixel(x, y, srcPixel);
                            dstPixel = dstIn.getPixel(x, y, dstPixel);
                            float mergeFactor = 1.0f * (cy - 100) / 100;
                            dstPixel[0] = merge(mergeFactor, srcPixel[0], dstPixel[0]);
                            dstPixel[1] = merge(mergeFactor, srcPixel[1], dstPixel[1]);
                            dstPixel[2] = merge(mergeFactor, srcPixel[2], dstPixel[2]);
                            dstOut.setPixel(x, y, dstPixel);
                    catch(Throwable t) {
                        System.out.println(t.getMessage() + " x=" + x + " y=" + y);
        protected int merge(float mergeFactor, int src, int dst) {
            return (int) (mergeFactor * src + (1.0f - mergeFactor) * dst);
        protected void dumpRaster(String lbl,
                                  Raster raster) {
            System.out.print(lbl + ":");
            System.out.print(" mx=" + format(raster.getMinX()));
            System.out.print(" my=" + format(raster.getMinY()));
            System.out.print(" rw=" + format(raster.getWidth()));
            System.out.print(" rh=" + format(raster.getHeight()));
            System.out.print(" tx=" + format(raster.getSampleModelTranslateX()));
            System.out.print(" ty=" + format(raster.getSampleModelTranslateY()));
            System.out.print(" sm=" + raster.getSampleModel().getClass().getName());
            System.out.println();
        protected String format(int value) {
            String txt = Integer.toString(value);
            while(txt.length() < 4)
                txt = " " + txt;
            return txt;
        public void dispose() {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new TestCustomComposite2();
}

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