eagle3386
31st December 2008 13:04 UTC

Make whole section group read-only?
Hey guys,

I searched the docs, forums, wiki and even Google, but couldn't find an answer to my question: Is it somehow possible to make a whole (sub-) section group read-only?

For example

Root
 +-[ ] A
 I  +-[ ] A1
 I  +-[ ] A2
 I
 +-[ ] B
 I  +-[ ] B1
 I  +-[ ] B2
 I
 +-[ ] C

is the structure - how to make B, B1 and B2 read-only?
Unfortunately, using "SectionIn RO" only works for B1 & B2..

Best regards,
Martin.. :)

Animaether
31st December 2008 16:28 UTC

could try poking at it with setting the section flags directly

eagle3386
1st January 2009 14:41 UTC

But where to set the flags? Within the specific section group? Within the .onInit-function? :)

BTW: Happy New Year! :)

{_trueparuex^}
1st January 2009 15:02 UTC

You can set the flags in any function before the components page is swon.

.onInit will work just fine:

!include Sections.nsh

...

SectionGroup "B" my_ro_group

  ; use "SectionIn RO" for subsections
  Section "B1"
    SectionIn RO
  SectionEnd

  ...

SectionGroupEnd

Function .onInit
  !insertmacro SetSectionFlag ${my_ro_group} ${SF_RO}
FunctionEnd

And a happy new year to you too. :)

PaR

eagle3386
1st January 2009 15:12 UTC

Ok, got the basic procedure from http://nsis.sourceforge.net/IfFileEx..._Section_Flags and the available flags from Sections.nsh's comments, _but_:

Normal flag value: 43
Read-only value: 59 (because SF_RO equals to 16)

Result (according to my scheme in post #1): "Root" gets read-only, A can still be unchecked and A1 & A2 are still read-only as before..

The code used

(...)
SectionGroup /e "!My Stuff"
 SectionGroup /e "My App" myAPP
  Section
   (...)
  SectionEnd
  <more sections>
 SectionGroupEnd
 SectionGroup /e "!Extras" myXTS
  <more sections>
 SectionGroupEnd
SectionGroupEnd
(...)
Function ".onInit"
 SectionSetFlags myAPP 59
FunctionEnd
(...)

Any help would still be greatly appreciated! ;)

eagle3386
1st January 2009 16:49 UTC

Okay, using "myAPP" instead of "${myAPP}" was the cause, so finally everything is just like expected, thanks to:

(...)
!include "Sections.nsh"
(...)
SectionGroup /e "!My Stuff"
 SectionGroup "!My App" myAPP
  <some sections>
 SectionGroupEnd
 (...)
SectionGroupEnd
(...)
Function ".onInit"
 SectionSetFlags ${myAPP} 27 # equals to "SF_SELECTED (1) && SF_SECGRP (2) && SF_BOLD (8) && SF_RO (16)"
FunctionEnd
(...)

Again, thanks _a lot_, Animaether and trueparuex! :)

Best regards,
Martin..