nsnb
23rd July 2009 19:36 UTC

SetShellVarContext on-the-fly ?
  Can I start a section with

SetShellVarContext current

Then change it later on (in same section) to

SetShellVarContext all

Then change it again to

SetShellVarContext current

?

The goal is to place some shortcuts on the Start Menu of the Administrator only, then place some items on the Start Menu of All Users, then restore ShellVarContext back to current.

I just tried that and it didn't work for me. So either there is an inherent limitation of which I didn't know or I am doing something wrong.

If the latter, any idea what could possibly go wrong in simple code like this?

SetShellVarContext all

CreateShortCut "${D_STARTMENU}\\MyApp.lnk" "myapp.exe"

>SetShellVarContext current 

>

jpderuiter
23rd July 2009 20:25 UTC

Did you define D_STARTMENU somewhere?
That define will not change based on SetShellVarContext.
Use $SMPROGRAMS instead (See chapter 4.2.3 in the NSIS manual)

nsnb
24th July 2009 15:57 UTC

Originally posted by jpderuiter
Did you define D_STARTMENU somewhere?

Yes I did. Thank you for the tip. I changed the above to:

SetShellVarContext all 

CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\${D_COMPANY}\${D_PRODUCT}\\MyApp.lnk" "$PROGRAMFILES\${D_COMPANY}\${D_PRODUCT}\\myapp.exe" 

>SetShellVarContext current 

>

But this still doesn't work.

Interestingly enough, I have no such problem with SetOutPath.

Did changing SetShellVarContext on the fly ever worked for anyone?

Thanks.

nsnb
24th July 2009 16:18 UTC

Update: If I change:

CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\${D_COMPANY}\${D_PRODUCT}\\MyApp.lnk" "$PROGRAMFILES\${D_COMPANY}\${D_PRODUCT}\\myapp.exe" 

To:

CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\\MyApp.lnk" "$PROGRAMFILES\${D_COMPANY}\${D_PRODUCT}\\myapp.exe" 

It works.

Strange. I know that ${D_COMPANY} and ${D_PRODUCT} are defined and valid. Why is it behaving like this?

nsnb
24th July 2009 16:31 UTC

Problem solved. :)

What was missing is the CreateDirectory statement before the CreateShortCut:

CreateDirectory "$SMPROGRAMS\${D_COMPANY}\${D_PRODUCT}" 

jpderuiter, thank you again for the clue that led to the solution.