dazzathedrummer
4th March 2010 10:55 UTC

dumb newbie question......
Hi,

I've just stumbled upon this program and as i'm a big fan of winamp and Reaper, I thought id give it a go.

I'm wondering if I can use it to create an installer that will install an mp3 file to a prompted location from a website.

example..

-Website with a download button that launched installer.
-user click button, prompted to run installer (not save).
-Installer prompts user for download path.
-installer extracts mp3 to chosen location (eg My Music or iTunes folder)

thats it.

can this be done??

thanks

Darren

MSG
4th March 2010 11:47 UTC

Of course. Just make a basic installer that extracts the mp3 file to the specified path.

To learn NSIS, start by examining NSIS\examples\example1.nsi and example2.nsi . Use the command reference to learn what the commands do: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html

dazzathedrummer
4th March 2010 12:13 UTC

Great, can you recommend a script that I can edit as a starting point?

dazzathedrummer
4th March 2010 12:26 UTC

sorry, I just got the second part of your post - the bit where you told me what to do haha.

dazzathedrummer
4th March 2010 14:00 UTC

I've got that working now - Thanks for your help!!

Just wondering, how easy would it be to have an email address field where the user types in their email address and, upon installation, that information is captured either by appending a text file on my site or through email?

MSG
4th March 2010 16:06 UTC

Getting the mailadres requires a custom page using nsDialogs. Sending it to your server is more complex. You can't use e-mail for that - e-mail works completely different on different pc's. You could use one of the internet plugins, to open a php script which saves the parameter to a file on the server. Talk to a sysadmin.