Optional Desktop Icon

MichaelWithers
18th July 2007 12:07 UTC

Optional Desktop Icon
Hi everyone , iam using the modern UI style that comes with NSIS to produce an installer. Does anybody know if theres a macro that comes with this style that will put a dialogue in my installer that will ask the user if they wish to place a shortcut icon onto the desktop?

Thanks Mike

Joel
18th July 2007 15:11 UTC

No, but you can create one....or....simple add a section given the user to choose or not.

MichaelWithers
18th July 2007 16:43 UTC

I was pretty sure this was the case after I scanned through system.nsh and looked at some of the macros. Is it quite easy to make your own screens with macros, or will I need to do some advanced tutorials?!

Brummelchen
18th July 2007 17:43 UTC

I would put that into the SECTION part like this example from my scripts:

SubSection/e "VerknÃ¼pfungen fÃ¼r aktuellen Benutzer" SecInfo30

  Section"StartmenÃ¼gruppe" SecInfo31

  SectionEnd


  Section/o "VerknÃ¼pfung auf dem Desktop" SecInfo32

  SectionEnd


  Section/o "VerknÃ¼pfung im SchnellstartmenÃ¼" SecInfo33

  SectionEnd

SubSectionEnd


SubSection"VerknÃ¼pfungen fÃ¼r alle Benutzer" SecInfo40

  Section/o "StartmenÃ¼gruppe" SecInfo41

  SectionEnd


  Section/o "VerknÃ¼pfung auf dem Desktop" SecInfo42

  SectionEnd


  Section/o "VerknÃ¼pfung im SchnellstartmenÃ¼" SecInfo43

  SectionEnd

SubSectionEnd 

>

in english
- startmenu
- desktop
- quickstart

and here the part for read out options
(define goes in header of script)


  !define SF_SELFLAG "65"

 ;get section 30 flags (1 or 64)

 SectionGetFlags ${SecInfo30} $R9

  IntOp $R9 $R9& ${SF_SELFLAG}


  ;get section 40 flags (1 or 64)

 SectionGetFlags ${SecInfo40} $R9

  IntOp $R9 $R9& ${SF_SELFLAG}


  ;get user options from sections - current

  IntCmp $SECTION30"0" setlinks06

   ;current user selected

    SectionGetFlags${SecInfo31} $R9

    IntOp $START_MENU $R9& ${SF_SELECTED}

   SectionGetFlags ${SecInfo32} $R9

    IntOp $DESK_TOP $R9& ${SF_SELECTED}

   SectionGetFlags ${SecInfo33} $R9

    IntOp $QUICK_LAUNCH $R9& ${SF_SELECTED}

    ;create shortcuts for current users

    SetShellVarContext current

    Goto setlinks07


  setlinks06:

  ;get user options from sections - alluser

  IntCmp $SECTION30"0" setlinks07

   ;all users selected

    SectionGetFlags${SecInfo41} $R9

    IntOp $START_MENU $R9& ${SF_SELECTED}

   SectionGetFlags ${SecInfo42} $R9

    IntOp $DESK_TOP $R9& ${SF_SELECTED}

   SectionGetFlags ${SecInfo43} $R9

    IntOp $QUICK_LAUNCH $R9& ${SF_SELECTED}

    ;create shortcuts for all users

    SetShellVarContext all

   ;Goto setlinks06


  setlinks07:

  ;create startmenu 

>

variables are related to section names