tatsudoshi
17th November 2004 21:50 UTC

Parsing a user input to uninstaller
Hi..

I want the user to tell the installer where to put the shortcuts and this works fine (it is snipped lines)

But my uninstaller deletes the hole startmenu! And I think it is because $STARTMENU_FOLDER = null to the uninstaller. So how do I tell the uninstaller where $STARTMENU_FOLDER is?

------------- CODE snip ------------
var STARTMENU_FOLDER
!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_STARTMENU Cuts $STARTMENU_FOLDER
CreateDirectory "$SMPROGRAMS\$STARTMENU_FOLDER"

Section "Uninstall"
RMDir /r $INSTDIR
RMDir /r $SMPROGRAMS\$STARTMENU_FOLDER
SectionEnd
------------- CODE snip ------------

Or see the .nsi file for full insight.
Thanks for your time.

Afrow UK
17th November 2004 22:04 UTC

You would have to store a value in the registry using WriteRegStr ... $STARTMENU_FOLDER then ReadRegStr $STARTMENU_FOLDER ... in the uninstall section.

-Stu

tatsudoshi
17th November 2004 22:09 UTC

Okay.. I thourght that stuff was parsed to the uninstaller at compile time so that it could find it, itself. Thank you :)

Afrow UK
17th November 2004 22:16 UTC

That would be impossible as the value would be changed on run-time not on compile-time.

-Stu

tatsudoshi
17th November 2004 22:20 UTC

True true...

Do you know how to use:

!insertmacro MUI_STARTMENUPAGE_REGISTRY_ROOT
!insertmacro MUI_STARTMENUPAGE_REGISTRY_KEY
!insertmacro MUI_STARTMENUPAGE_REGISTRY_VALUENAME

I have never used these and I cannot get much help from the doc's..

Afrow UK
18th November 2004 17:37 UTC

See ReadRegKey in the manual.

-Stu