rsegal
11th March 2003 16:46 UTC

Long file names
I'm having a problem renaming long filenames in my installer. I wan to include a file called "3DNA Minimal.mp3". I want to reposition the directory it gets installed to so here's what I've tried,

File /oname="Audio\Background\3DNA Minimal.mp3"
"C:\Temp\3DNA_Rel_1.0\3DNA\Audio\Background\3DNA Minimal.mp3"

But makensis will stop when it gets to this line and print a message about the usage of the "File" function. If I enter,

File "C:\Temp\3DNA_Rel_1.0\3DNA\Audio\Background\3DNA Minimal.mp3"

everything works fine. I can't see that I'm missing anything or doing anything wrong. If I include the same line in the script say as,

File /oname="Audio\Background\3DNAMinimal.mp3"
"C:\Temp\3DNA_Rel_1.0\3DNA\Audio\Background\3DNAMinimal.mp3"

so there is no spaces in the filename makensis will then give me a message saying that it can't find the file which is correct. The space in the filename seems to be causing problems.

Any ideas?

rsegal
11th March 2003 16:51 UTC

Never mind, was finally able to find an answer to this in the forums and it already is a known issue. It works when you put the quote in front of /oname rather than after it. So this does work for me,

File "/oname=Audio\Background\3DNA Minimal.mp3" "C:\Temp\3DNA_Rel_1.0\3DNA\Audio\Background\3DNA Minimal.mp3"

Joost Verburg
11th March 2003 17:08 UTC

Yep. That's how it always works with flags.