mergisius
12th February 2008 12:12 UTC

How to ReserveFile in other directory?
Well, the problem is that my *.ini files is in other catalog. Problem is similar to this one http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....ht=ReserveFile, but I don't get how he solved it. If you would do like there "!insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_EXTRACT "installoptions.ini" it wouldn't find it.

My code:

ReserveFile "InstallFields\ServerSettingsPageDB.ini"
ReserveFile "InstallFields\ServerSettingsPageUser.ini"
ReserveFile "InstallFields\ServerSettingsPageDocs.ini"
 
<.... >

Function .onInit
  !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_EXTRACT "InstallFields\ServerSettingsPageDB.ini"
  !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_EXTRACT "InstallFields\ServerSettingsPageUser.ini"
  !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_EXTRACT "InstallFields\ServerSettingsPageDocs.ini"
FunctionEnd

Function SettingsPageDBShow
  !insertmacro SectionFlagIsSet ${Server_Recreate} ${SF_SELECTED} 0 end
  !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_DISPLAY "InstallFields\ServerSettingsPageDB.ini"
  end:
FunctionEnd

Function ServerSettingsPageDBLeave
  !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_READ $DBSERVER_NAME "InstallFields\ServerSettingsPageDB.ini" "Field 3" "State"
  !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_READ $DATABASE_NAME "InstallFields\ServerSettingsPageDB.ini" "Field 5" "State"
FunctionEnd

Function SettingsPageUserShow
  !insertmacro SectionFlagIsSet ${Server_Recreate} ${SF_SELECTED} 0 end
  !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_DISPLAY "InstallFields\ServerSettingsPageUser.ini"
  end:
<...>

If I wrote "InstallFields\InitFile.ini" in every place where I need to use InitFile.ini, i would get error "Error opening file <..> for writing".

So, how should I corectly reserve a file which is in different directory?

Afrow UK
12th February 2008 12:23 UTC

According to that code your ini files are in the same folder as your script (MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_EXTRACT), so what's the problem?

Stu

mergisius
12th February 2008 13:11 UTC

Originally posted by Afrow UK
According to that code your ini files are in the same folder as your script (MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_EXTRACT), so what's the problem?

Stu

Well, I edited my code in the post.

Actually, I want to fix that mess with install scripts, so I would like to make folders like "IniFiles", "Scripts", "BatFiles", "Images". That's why i need to reserve files from other directory than my scripts are.

Afrow UK
12th February 2008 13:53 UTC

ReserveFile will work if the file is there relative to your script.

Your code won't work now as it is. You need to use MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_EXTRACT_AS.

Stu

mergisius
19th February 2008 07:02 UTC

Originally posted by Afrow UK
ReserveFile will work if the file is there relative to your script.

Your code won't work now as it is. You need to use MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_EXTRACT_AS.

Stu

Thank you :)


So, now it looks like this and works fine :)

!insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_EXTRACT_AS "IniFiles\ServerSettingsPageDB.ini" "ServerSettingsPageDB.ini"

<...>

!insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_DISPLAY "ServerSettingsPageDB.ini"