Panarchy
16th April 2009 10:50 UTC

How do I Auto-Scan for File, then auto-replace it with an NSIS Installer?
Hello

I wish to create an installer (using NSIS) which will search for all occurrences of notepad.exe, list everywhere it is found on a separate 'page' (have to click [next]/[I agree]), then replace all occurrences with notepad2 (renamed to notepad.exe with a notepad.ini config file).

How do I do this?

Would really appreciate any advice/suggestions.

Thanks in advance,

Panarchy

Anders
16th April 2009 11:51 UTC

you would use the Find* functions and a custom page(you would have to deal with windows file protection, the notepad2 page has a couple of links)...but I know that there is a special notepad2 build that supports the debug "hack" so all you need is a registry change, no need to replace any files

http://code.kliu.org/misc/notepad2/

Panarchy
16th April 2009 14:50 UTC

Thanks

Just tried that on Vista 64-bit, didn't work for me.

Please recommend another method, or tell me how I can implement the method which I suggested.

Thanks in advance,

Panarchy

code65536
21st April 2009 02:40 UTC

Just tried that on Vista 64-bit, didn't work for me.