Help woth InstallDirRegKey

Dygear
18th June 2004 21:06 UTC

Help woth InstallDirRegKey
I am reading this value, c:\valve\steam\steamapps\dygear@aol.com\half-life, from HKCU "Software\Valve\Steam" "ModInstallPath"

but i want to get, c:\valve\steam\steamapps\dygear@aol.com, is there a way to do that?

kichik
18th June 2004 21:25 UTC

Search the forum for *steam*. This question has been asked and answered several times already.

Dygear
18th June 2004 23:27 UTC

I searched for InstallDirRegKey before I posted but did not find it, my bad.

Dygear
18th June 2004 23:36 UTC

Ok searched for Steam, and this is the most approte thread i could find. [link]
What i want to do is take the value from ModInstallPath and get the parent forlder. then set that to the Insall path.
I am going to try and make up some code later, but in that time if you could help with this then that would be great, I will no doubt have some qustions on how to do this later.

kichik
18th June 2004 23:40 UTC

What's wrong with GetParent from that thread and from the documentation?

Dygear
20th June 2004 02:53 UTC

That code seems over kill.
This is what i want to do.

That whats in the ModInstallPath and put in in to a variable.
Take that var and GetParent.
Set that as the INSTALL DIR.

I want to do back to the email address, not to [Drive:]/[DIR]/steam.

pengyou
20th June 2004 12:59 UTC

; Read registry value into $1
; for example, $1 = "c:\valve\steam\steamapps\dygear@aol.com\half-life"

Push $1
Call GetParent
Pop $0

; $0 = "c:\valve\steam\steamapps\dygear@aol.com"

Dygear
22nd June 2004 09:39 UTC

; Start of Setting Install Dir
Function GetParent
  Exch $0 ; old $0 is on top of stack
  Push $1
  Push $2
  StrCpy $1 -1
  loop:
    StrCpy $2 $0 1 $1
    StrCmp $2 "" exit
    StrCmp $2 "\" exit
    IntOp $1 $1 - 1
  Goto loop
  exit:
    StrCpy $0 $0 $1
    Pop $2
    Pop $1
    Exch $0 ; put $0 on top of stack, restore $0 to original value
FunctionEnd

Var InstallDir ;Declare the variable

Section InstallDir
  StrCpy $InstallDir ReadRegStr HKCU Software\Valve\Steam ModInstallPath
  Push $9
  Call getParent
  Pop $9
SectionEnd
; End of Setting Install Dir

Can some one tell me why this is not working?

zimsms
22nd June 2004 13:12 UTC

change:

StrCpy $InstallDir ReadRegStr HKCU Software\Valve\Steam ModInstallPath

to:

ReadRegStr$0 HKCU "Software\\Valve\\Steam" "ModInstallPath"

>StrCpy $INSTDIR "$0"


>; or


Var $InstallDir

ReadRegStr $InstallDir HKCU "Software\\Valve\\Steam" "ModInstallPath"

Dygear
26th June 2004 12:50 UTC

;Hope this works !
Function GetParent
  Exch $0 ; old $0 is on top of stack
  Push $1
  Push $2
  StrCpy $1 -1
  loop:
    StrCpy $2 $0 1 $1
    StrCmp $2 "" exit
    StrCmp $2 "\" exit
    IntOp $1 $1 - 1
  Goto loop
  exit:
    StrCpy $0 $0 $1
    Pop $2
    Pop $1
    Exch $0 ; put $0 on top of stack, restore $0 to original value
FunctionEnd

Var InstallDir
Section InstallDir
ReadRegStr $InstallDir HKCU "Software\Valve\Steam" "ModInstallPath"
Push $InstallDir
Call GetParent
Pop $0
SectionEnd

InstallDir "$0"

This should work :fingerscrossed:
Nope ... god this sucks.

Dygear
26th June 2004 13:08 UTC

Heres my code ...

kichik
26th June 2004 13:13 UTC

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....=installdir%2A

Dygear
28th June 2004 20:20 UTC

Thanks.