mondofan
8th August 2005 15:55 UTC

doesn't work, but why?
hi there, i need to list the files to the file, something like

nsExec::Exec '"dir" $EXEDIR /B > $EXEDIR\temp.txt'

(there will be $PLUGINSDIR instead of second $EXEDIR, this is just for testing)
how to do it? i put this into .onInit, but it does nothing, please help, i ran out of ideas

thanks in advance

Afrow UK
8th August 2005 17:27 UTC

This works:

ReadEnvStr $R0 COMSPEC
SetOutPath $EXEDIR
nsExec::Exec '$R0 /C dir /B >"$EXEDIR\temp.txt"'

You should really use NSIS to do it though for compatibility on other Windows platforms (i.e. Longhorn / Vista):

Function .onInit
 FileOpen $R0 "$EXEDIR\temp.txt" w
 FindFirst $R1 $R2 "$EXEDIR\*.*"
 Loop:
  IfErrors Done
   FileWrite $R0 $R2
  ClearErrors
  FindNext $R1 $R2
 Goto Loop
 Done:
 FindClose $R1
 FileClose $R0
FunctionEnd

-Stu

mondofan
9th August 2005 06:35 UTC

thanks for reply

ad Vista: yeah, i know, but i need those files sorted by time. i searched in nsis documentation, but found nothing that could do that. probably there is some plugin for this? if anyone knows something about it, please let me know.

deguix
9th August 2005 09:54 UTC

You'd need to have an array of files and times, and a way to get the times out of the files... NSIS Array + System plugins I think will do. I'm not certain if the Arrray plugin by Afrow UK can sort numbers.

Yathosho
9th August 2005 11:07 UTC

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....hreadid=215844

Afrow UK
10th August 2005 11:17 UTC

If you're still interested, I put together an example which does this task using my array plugin.
You can get the array plugin here:
http://nsis.sf.net/wiki/File:NSISArray.zip

The example is called MakeFileList.nsi which is in the Examples\NSISArray folder.

-Stu

mondofan
11th August 2005 09:37 UTC

AWESOME!!
sure i am interested, thank you very much
i appreciate your help :up: