jammusi
1st February 2010 17:30 UTC

Pushing external values to the stack
Hi,

Is that possible to push values to the NSIS stack from an external application lunched by setup.

The external application is a C# application that performs some of the setup tasks and is lunched with ExecWait

Tx

Anders
1st February 2010 17:49 UTC

With ExecWait, no. Just pass $pluginsdir to the app on the command line and have it save stuff there in a file, then read it back later. (Or rewrite the app as a dll that you can call from nsis)

jammusi
1st February 2010 18:08 UTC

What do you by:

(Or rewrite the app as a dll that you can call from nsis)

MSG
2nd February 2010 06:36 UTC

He means creating an NSIS plugin. Search the forums, or google.

jammusi
2nd February 2010 09:57 UTC

OK thanks.

Currently we decided to do it via registry as the returned value should actually be written to registry.

So for the current need the external application - will generate the value and instead of returning it back to the setup (to be written to registry), it will directly write it to the registry.