zackbuffo
29th September 2011 08:48 UTC

SetShellVarContext with variables
I'm struggling with variables again.

I want to read "all useres" or "current user" out of an ini-file, but it doesn't work this way:

Section "install"
ReadINIStr $0 $INSTDIR/Setup.ini USER AUTOSTART
SetShellVarContext "$0"
CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\Startup\App.lnk" "$INSTDIR\App.exe"
SectionEnd

I tried $0 with and without double quotes. It doesn't compile.

First I thought SetShellVarContext is just working on compiletime, but as I used "all" or "current" instead of $0 within a Section, there were no problems.

Any ideas?

Afrow UK
29th September 2011 09:17 UTC

Use an If?

Stu

zackbuffo
29th September 2011 09:27 UTC

To do what?

Afrow UK
29th September 2011 10:07 UTC

:rolleyes:

${If} $0 == current
  SetShellVarContext current
${Else}
  SetShellVarContext all
${EndIf}

Stu

zackbuffo
29th September 2011 11:51 UTC

Thanks for your help, but unfortunately that doesn't do the job... :rolleyes:


The second SetShellVarContext parameter is always used. I checked it both ways.

zackbuffo
29th September 2011 13:11 UTC

Solved!
@Afrow UK: I guess your code didn't work for me, because I don't have LogicLib installed...?

I solved the problem with the StrCmp instruction. That's basically what you suggested:

ReadINIStr $0 $INSTDIR\Setup.ini USER AUTOSTART
StrCmp $0 "current" 0 else
SetShellVarContext current
Goto endStrCmp
else:
SetShellVarContext all
endStrCmp:
CreateShortCut "$SMPROGRAMS\Startup\App.lnk" "$INSTDIR\App.exe"

Thanks for the hint...! :up:

Afrow UK
29th September 2011 16:43 UTC

You do have LogicLib; it is included with NSIS. If you aren't using MUI2 (which you should be) then just !include LogicLib.nsh.

Edit: Actually your code wouldn't have compiled if you didn't include LogicLib so not sure what the problem was there.

Stu