Shea
8th February 2004 06:07 UTC

Adding Reg Keys From .reg File?
Is it possible to have NSIS download a .reg file from a server and then add the keys in it to the registry?

deguix
8th February 2004 10:44 UTC

EDIT: See this Archive page Reg2Nsis - convert registry info into NSIS commands

But I never used it. And it's big (164 kb).

VegetaSan
8th February 2004 11:18 UTC

I dont know that register part but what I do know is
how to donwload a file :
;----------------------------------------------------------

EXAMPLE :
file = bla.exe
directory = $PROGRAMFILES
; the name and directory you want
StrCpy $2 "$PROGRAMFILES\bla.extension"
; the url (dont set " between the url)
NSISdl::download URL://....... $2
Pop $0
; if you want to open the file
ExecWait "$PROGRAMFILES\bla.exe"

;----------------------------------------------------------

NOTE : MUST BE IN A SECTION

Vytautas
8th February 2004 11:48 UTC

You could also use the ExecShell command to import the registry file, however you will get an extra dialogs asking if you want to import the specified file and saying that the import was sucessfull. Unless there is an option to make regedit run in silent mode?

Vytautas

Joost Verburg
8th February 2004 11:52 UTC

It's not a good idea to rely on external applications like regedit.

Vytautas
8th February 2004 11:58 UTC

I know that is the case in general, but I do not see any harm in relying on regedit, it is available in all windows version.

Especially since, from my understanding of the original question, the info in the .reg file is not available at the compile time and thus cannot be converted into an NSIS script. Therefore you have two options. One is to rely on an external program, regedit, or two to get your NSIS script to manually phrase the downloaded .reg file and then run equivalent NSIS commands.

Personally I think that the first option would be more efficient and less error prone.

Vytautas

deguix
8th February 2004 14:46 UTC

.reg files are like .ini files... so have a way to do that with functions. Am I right? (the difference is that .reg files have a starting word to indentify if it's a .reg file)

Shea
8th February 2004 16:52 UTC

There is a Batch file command to import reg keys silently, but then you get the batch dialog.

Breepee
8th February 2004 19:51 UTC

Originally posted by deguix
EDIT: See this Archive page Reg2Nsis - convert registry info into NSIS commands

But I never used it. And it's big (164 kb).

deguix
9th February 2004 02:43 UTC

There is a Batch file command to import reg keys silently, but then you get the batch dialog.

Shea
9th February 2004 14:05 UTC

Ok I have an idea:

Have nsDl download the reg file from the net into the Temp folder
Make a batch file with the lines regedit.exe /s C:\Windows\Temp\TheRegFile.reg which tells the batch not to show the Are you sure dialog.
Then we have nsExec execute the batch without the dialog and everything goes well.

Do you think that would work?