Alternate Directory page (dirpage)

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saivert
8th July 2005 06:18 UTC

Alternate Directory page (dirpage)
I have created a plug-in which will show an embedded directory tree-view browser instead of a popup one.

Download 7-zip archive here:
dirpage.7z (59.37 Kb)

This style of directory page should have been an integrated feature in NSIS.

Afrow UK
8th July 2005 08:45 UTC

Oooh this will be very handy, thanks!

Edit: Will you be putting these plugins on the Wiki too?

-Stu

saivert
9th July 2005 05:33 UTC

I don't know so much about the new Wiki system yet. I know you must use some special text based syntax to format your pages and so on, but I think you will need to guide me on how to create a new page. I have currenlty just been typing in a "new" URL and added content, but it does not show up in any of the categories. How does one move a page into a category?

deguix
9th July 2005 12:33 UTC

Put this anywhere in the wiki page (preferably at the bottom):

[[Category:CatTitle]]

Where CatTitle is the category page. If this is used more than once to link to the same category page, only the first is considered.

Afrow UK
9th July 2005 12:43 UTC

I just looked at other people's pages first (you can choose to edit them).

-Stu

Afrow UK
9th July 2005 15:21 UTC

I'm using the exact code in the readme and I get an error saying "Dir Page error: Install directory paramater not specified".

Edit: The actual example scripts seem to work though...

-Stu

saivert
11th July 2005 05:44 UTC

BS in Readme
The readme example may seem to be broken, but use the examples from now on. I said this was old code and I can't promise everything to be working. I will try to make the Wiki pages now. Thanks for the tip deguix!!

I really hope someone else picks up on this project. Finish what I left off. I don't have time or the skills to do it myself.

EDIT: Wikie page up
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/wiki/NxS_Alt_dir_page

froamer
15th December 2005 14:57 UTC

HI Experts!

I am very new to this, so please excuse my newbie question. I hope I am posting in the right place.

My installer needs to collect a folder for settings (defaulting to $LOCALAPPDATA) and documents (defaulting to $DOCUMENTS).

For this I am using the excellent DirPage plugin. Here is the function for documents:

Function onDocsPageShow
  !insertmacro MUI_HEADER_TEXT "Documents Folder" "$(^Name) documents folder"
  InitPluginsDir ; Initialize $PLUGINSDIR. 
  ; Now show the page
  dirpage::show /noicon /text "Select the location for your documents" "$DOCUMENTS"
  Pop $R0  ; Get result
  StrCmp $R0 "success" ok
  StrCmp $R0 "cancel" cancel
    MessageBox MB_OK "Documents Page error: $R0"
  cancel:
    Return
  ok:
    Pop $USER_DOCS
FunctionEnd

This works great on XP, but I've just tested it on Win98SE with IE6 and I get a message box saying "Documents Page error: /noicon" removing /noicon just makes it report "Documents Page error: /text"

Am I doing something wrong or does this plugin not support Win98? If not, is there a better/alternative way to achieve what I am after?

Many thanks for any help.