firefly2442
30th April 2003 03:45 UTC

Update Plugin
I was looking to download the VPatch plugin but it seems that the download link doesn't work. Is this still an active plugin project or is there another/better patch plugin system? Thanks in advance. :p

firefly2442
30th April 2003 03:47 UTC

Another quick question- the plugins... do they need to be programmed in C++ or would Visual Basic work. Thanks.

Lion King
30th April 2003 05:44 UTC

download works for me: http://www.tibed.net/index.php?page=vpatch

kichik
30th April 2003 13:32 UTC

Download works for me too.

This is a page that explains how to call exported VB functions. As you can see it uses an MFC dll to do that. This means that your installer will require both VB and MFC runtimes just to install your program. It's possible, but I don't think it's such a good idea.

virtlink
30th April 2003 16:37 UTC

Is it possible to install some runtimes (MFC and VB runtimes, for example) BEFORE calling the plugin (using the plugin only after the installation page)?
Or is the plugin pre-loaded, which would cause an error if the runtimes aren't available yet?

kichik
30th April 2003 16:41 UTC

It's possible, NSIS doesn't preload any plug-in.

Keep in mind though that the installation might require a reboot.

Joost Verburg
30th April 2003 16:45 UTC

That is possible.

firefly2442
30th April 2003 17:31 UTC

You might want to change the download link in the archive section. Thanks for the new download link. Will VPatch be added into the next release of NSIS?

Joost Verburg
30th April 2003 18:05 UTC

The download link in the archive works fine for me.

Koen van de Sande
30th April 2003 20:53 UTC

Originally posted by firefly2442
You might want to change the download link in the archive section. Thanks for the new download link. Will VPatch be added into the next release of NSIS?

Joost Verburg
30th April 2003 20:55 UTC

I just mailed Koen about including VPatch in the next version. With a few aditions to the command line version, it should be possible :)

firefly2442
1st May 2003 00:16 UTC

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/archive/....php?pageid=76

Yeah, the tibed.net link works great. But the archive one is different. Great! A patching system will a major improvement for the next release. :)