Yathosho
10th October 2011 14:42 UTC

Locate and sort
as discussed elsewhere, i'm having stability problems using the locate plugin. i startet porting portions of my script back to the locate function until i ran into the reason why i was using the plugin in the first place: sorting. now i'm sure there are ways of addressing this when using the function, but i wouldn't know how - any tips are welcome.

i'm trying to write a file-structure (files and directories) into a text file (and no, i don't want to go back to the dir command either!)

Afrow UK
10th October 2011 16:35 UTC

How about filling a nsArray using the standard Find* instructions and sorting that? If you need to figure out why something is crashing you might need to run it through the debugger in VS.

Stu

LoRd_MuldeR
10th October 2011 17:10 UTC

NSISList_plug-in provides a sort function too. Only ANSI version available currently though...

Yathosho
11th October 2011 07:23 UTC

thank you, will give nsArray a try - also since it comes at only 1/3 of the size of the locate plugin :)

Afrow UK
11th October 2011 12:31 UTC

I've added NSISList to the arrays page: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Arrays_in_NSIS
Also LoRd_MuldeR, you are missing PageAuthor from your plug-in's page. Not sure if this is intentional, but just add {{PageAuthor|[username]}} to the top if you want.

Stu

LoRd_MuldeR
11th October 2011 12:47 UTC

Originally posted by Afrow UK
Also LoRd_MuldeR, you are missing PageAuthor from your plug-in's page. Not sure if this is intentional, but just add {{PageAuthor|[username]}} to the top if you want.

Yathosho
12th October 2011 12:16 UTC

i don't understand how the sort function is of any help in my case. i can output the sorted values as a string only, but i will easily exceed the strlen when using an array with directory names. sorting is of no help when looping through the array, as the index will remain the same.

LoRd_MuldeR
12th October 2011 12:42 UTC

Not sure abot nsArray, but NSISList will definitely re-order the items in the array/list when sorting.

So you can loop through the sorted array and process one item each time...

Afrow UK
12th October 2011 13:49 UTC

Originally posted by Yathosho
i don't understand how the sort function is of any help in my case. i can output the sorted values as a string only, but i will easily exceed the strlen when using an array with directory names. sorting is of no help when looping through the array, as the index will remain the same.