hooklee
25th May 2005 12:24 UTC

Problem with directoryShow function: a bug?
With the following codes, $INSTDIR is empty in directoryShow function, while it is "C:\Test" in directoryPre function. Is it a bug?

Name "Test"

OutFile "Test.exe"

InstallDir "C:\Test"

PageEx directory
  PageCallbacks directoryPre directoryShow
PageExEnd
Page components
Page instfiles

Function directoryPre
  MessageBox MB_OK "directoryPre: $INSTDIR"
FunctionEnd
Function directoryShow
  MessageBox MB_OK "directoryShow: $INSTDIR"
FunctionEnd

Section
SectionEnd

playwin2
26th May 2005 22:27 UTC

Doesn't happen to me.
Both Pre and Show funct. shows "C:\Test" when I ran the above script.

Afrow UK
26th May 2005 23:18 UTC

Happens to me. I'm using NSIS 2.06

-Stu

playwin2
27th May 2005 00:35 UTC

Me too NSIS 2.06!
But does *NOT* happens to me...

Hmm! Which OS? Mine is Win98SE.

hooklee
27th May 2005 02:17 UTC

I have tested it under WinXP Pro, Win2000 and Win98SE Oses. The problem happens under WinXP Pro and Win2000.

kichik
27th May 2005 13:54 UTC

Messing with $INSTDIR is not exactly the intention of the show function, but this is still a valid problem. Open a bug report on the SourceForge project page for it, I don't have time to fix it now.

hooklee
27th May 2005 14:34 UTC

I have submitted a bug report: ID 1209843.

Kichik, this function may be useful when the user want to disable/hide some controls by checking $INSTDIR. In my installer, I have two directory pages, one of which is a folder for copying some files if they do not exist there.

kichik
13th January 2006 19:57 UTC

I've finally taken the time to look into it and found the problem. The bug was fixed and the fix will be present in version 2.13 which should be released next weekend.

hooklee
13th January 2006 20:10 UTC

Thanks, it sounds good.