Rolando
27th March 2006 00:57 UTC

Get Section Name
Section "Required Files" req
....
SectionEnd

Suppose this is the first section in my nsi file, how can I return it's name (req) ?

JasonFriday13
27th March 2006 03:03 UTC

I don't know if you can return "req" as a name. I think it is just a handle to a section (for runtime manipulation).

Afrow UK
27th March 2006 07:54 UTC

req is just a constant name for the Section index.
e.g. if "Required Files" is your first Section, ${req} will be 0.

-Stu

Rolando
27th March 2006 14:01 UTC

The thing is, I want to save the selected components to the registry and I already have that done but components keep changing in each update. For example section 5 in this version might be section 6 in the next. So I need to get the section name, since it's static. Is it possible to do that ?

Afrow UK
27th March 2006 14:09 UTC

Yes, use SectionGetText.

-Stu

Rolando
27th March 2006 14:21 UTC

But my installer is multi-lingual, the section text varies with each language. I need something static to define each section. Any ideas ?

Afrow UK
27th March 2006 14:42 UTC

How about:

Var SelectedSectionNum

Function .onInit
 StrCpy $SelectedSectionNum 0
FunctionEnd

Section "Main Application" Sec1
 WriteRegStr HKLM "Software\MyApp\Sections" "$SelectedSectionNum" "MainApp"
 IntOp $SelectedSectionNum $SelectedSectionNum + 1
SectionEnd

Section "Skins" Sec2
 WriteRegStr HKLM "Software\MyApp\Sections" "$SelectedSectionNum" "Skins"
 IntOp $SelectedSectionNum $SelectedSectionNum + 1
SectionEnd

Section "Documents" Sec3
 WriteRegStr HKLM "Software\MyApp\Sections" "$SelectedSectionNum" "Docs"
 IntOp $SelectedSectionNum $SelectedSectionNum + 1
SectionEnd