dhyams
24th June 2009 16:03 UTC

trouble w/ MUI_DESCRIPTION_TEXT
Hi, I am trying to show a section description based on information in a little .ini file that I maintain. Here's what I'm doing:

ReadINIStr $DESCRIPTION $PLUGINSDIR\aiw.ini TheApp description
!insertmacro MUI_DESCRIPTION_TEXT ${TheApp} $DESCRIPTION

Where TheApp is a section that I'm trying to show a description for. I know that the INI read is working correctly, but just as a test, I did


StrCpy $DESCRIPTION "The description of the app"
!insertmacro MUI_DESCRIPTION_TEXT ${TheApp} $DESCRIPTION

and it still doesn't work. If I do just
!insertmacro MUI_DESCRIPTION_TEXT ${TheApp} "The description of the app"

of course, it works. Is there any way to make the input to MUI_DESCRIPTION_TEXT a variable, rather than a hardcoded string?