Dygear
16th July 2004 14:23 UTC

[REQUEST] A more robust zip2exe.
*1st sorry for the bad gramma, and spelling, I am very tired, and I am posting, it's not a good combination, like drink driving.*

I do like the way you have the set up of your Zip2Exe, but its missing a feather that I would just love to see. (and due to me being a noob to NSIS i use it lots more then makeing my own Scrip files.)

This is a screen shot of what i am using now for all of my Zip2Exe needs.

*NOTE THAT* THE HKCU\softwear\valve\steam\ModInstallDir as this as its value ...
c:\valve\steam\steamapps\dygear@aol.com\half-life

So heres the images ...
http://www.thenz.org/Old/Images/NSIS/NSISIdea1.jpg
http://www.thenz.org/Old/Images/NSIS/NSISIdea2.jpg
http://www.thenz.org/Old/Images/NSIS/NSISIdea3.jpg
http://www.thenz.org/Old/Images/NSIS/NSISIdea4.jpg
http://www.thenz.org/Old/Images/NSIS/NSISIdea5.jpg
http://www.thenz.org/Old/Images/NSIS/NSISIdea6.jpg
http://www.thenz.org/Old/Images/NSIS/NSISIdea7.jpg

The file that it makes is this ...
The Icon :
http://www.thenz.org/Old/Images/NSIS/NSISIdearicon.gif
The Program :
http://www.thenz.org/Old/Images/NSIS/NSISIdea8.jpg
http://www.thenz.org/Old/Images/NSIS/NSISIdea9.jpg
http://www.thenz.org/Old/Images/NSIS/NSISIdea10.jpg
And it exeacuded techtvlogo.gif
http://www.thenz.org/Old/Images/NSIS/NSISIdea11.jpg

This is the SoF (Somthing optimes file).
http://www.thenz.org/Old/Images/NSIS...eariconsof.gif

And the code that is in NSISIdea.sof

[SFX]
Title=Title goes here.
MsgText=Hello to the NSIS team, hope you like this idea.
MsgType=0
Autorun=1
Runfile=TechTVLogo.gif
Params=
AskAutorun=1
SelfStarting=0
DestPath=HKCU\Software\Valve\Steam\ModInstallPath
DestSubPath=../
OvrType=0
HideOvrBox=0
SelectFile=0
ShowSuccessMsg=1
ExpandEnvVars=1
HideFileList=0
AllowCancel=1
Icon=

Afrow UK
16th July 2004 20:55 UTC

Are you saying that zip2exe needs to be updated to look like that (more user friendly perhaps)?

If you want to make a better installer from using zip2exe, you can add NSIS code to the NSIS\Contrib\zip2exe\Modern.nsh file.

-Stu

Joel
16th July 2004 21:08 UTC

I think that will required more coding that equals biggers size of the header...

Yathosho
17th July 2004 01:39 UTC

that's kinda how pimpbot works. i have plans to release the sourcecode, but first i want to overwork the structure, so people can easily modify it for their needs. guess that is going to become pimpbot v3.

btw, pimpbot itself is written in nsis :)

deguix
17th July 2004 09:43 UTC

I think you could make that with NSIS. If you're going to put a progressbar, you have to use InstallOptionsEx. Buttons that have text w/ images and Header control for the files (which is essential) aren't supported by InstallOptionsEx.

Now, if it is going to be implementated... you have to make it. Because, you know, NSIS has lots of feature requests already and will be a long time before it gets implemented.

Brummelchen
17th July 2004 12:14 UTC

Nice, but i always prefered WinRAR or
something like this (real archiver)
instead any somehow-solution.
Archiver are specialists like NSIS.

Yathosho
17th July 2004 13:38 UTC

as i have most of the code from pimpbot already, i've decided to work on something like that.

however, since i'm completely unexperienced with validate-functions, i could need some help one this. i know there's a pretty good example coming with nsis, do i have to mind anything syntax-wise when using mui?

i guess i could complete the task within august.

deguix
17th July 2004 22:01 UTC

You don't need to create these validate functions by now, and if you do, you don't have a lot of them to create anyways. It's a wizard type program, like yours, so it doesn't have to have lots of things changing.

Yathosho
17th July 2004 22:53 UTC

as you suggested i want to validate the inputs of the file/directory dialogs and disable some controls dynamically. however, kichik pointed me in the right direction.

Dygear
26th July 2004 01:40 UTC

Thank you all very much for the replies i will be looking into pimpbot.

Dygear
26th July 2004 01:48 UTC

Is there a posable mod that could be made to pimpbot to allow it to be geared more like the "zip2exe" or "dir2exe" that I showed?

Yathosho
26th July 2004 03:54 UTC

as i said, not yet. but i plan to do that, based on pimpbot :)

Dygear
26th July 2004 10:33 UTC

Well man people are waiting :P.
Thanks for the help, and I hope for a speedy version of "zip2exe" "dir2exe".