Launch Program after Install

Adam_x86
19th October 2005 21:49 UTC

Launch Program after Install
How do I make a tickbox option that asks the user to launch the main program after installtion?

Could someone show me where to look in the docs or the code I need? I'm a real newbie but I get the hang of it fast. Thanks.

l_d_allan
20th October 2005 00:27 UTC

Not sure I understand your question, but ...

There is the 'placeholder' function
.onInstSuccess
that is always called at the end of a successful installation. I've used something like:


Function .onInstSuccess
  ExecWait '"$INSTDIR\MyApp parameters"'
  # may prefer Exec instead of ExecWait
FunctionEnd

You could also have


Page Components
;;; more statements 

Section /o "Run MyApp"
  ExecWait '"$INSTDIR\MyApp parameters"'
  # may prefer Exec instead of ExecWait
SectionEnd

if you want to have MyApp run 'midway' thru the application rather than at the end. (The first option above sounds closer to what you are asking. I suppose you could use StrCpy to set some kind of myAppRunFlag variable and then check that during .onInstSuccess so that it would run as the last thing)

Adam_x86
20th October 2005 00:36 UTC

I'm looking for something like this (except the 'Readme' is 'Launch Program'):
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/5121/screen4uo.gif

iceman_k
20th October 2005 01:36 UTC

Read the MUI documentation.
It's part of your NSIS help docs.

mscoville
20th October 2005 13:03 UTC

!define MUI_FINISHPAGE_RUN "program.exe"