stopasking
10th November 2011 16:44 UTC

Multilingual installation: Version number in caption
  Hello!

I want to add a version number to my installation caption, but leave the name without the version number in all other places.

makensis does it the following way:

Name "NSIS"
Caption "NSIS ${VERSION} Setup"

This works only for an English-only installation.

I tried to do the following:

!searchreplace "ASDF_${LANGLOAD}" "$(^SetupCaption)" "$(^Name)" "$(^Name) v${VERSION}"
LangString "^SetupCaption" "${LANG_${LANG_LOADING}}" "${ASDF_${LANGLOAD}}"

Where "${LANGLOAD}" is every loaded language. It does not work.

Any suggestions? Another option I see is editing .nlf files, but this is quite an ugly solution.

Afrow UK
10th November 2011 16:50 UTC

Use another language string for the caption?

Stu

stopasking
10th November 2011 16:57 UTC

Well, I can do a LangString for every supported language, but I think the method sucks.
What if, e.g., a new version of NSIS is released with a better translation for some language?

I don't want to copy the strings from nsis .nlf files to my installation script, I just want to append a version number to ^Name in ^SetupCaption.

Afrow UK
10th November 2011 17:11 UTC

There is no way to do this. You have to either just put the version in Name or create your own LangString.

Stu

stopasking
10th November 2011 17:30 UTC

Can't you get the contents of "$(^SetupCaption)" somehow?
There's also this trick I saw (I think you are the author of it):
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Invoking...n_compile-time

Which might get the job done, but is ugly as well.
Seems like the easiest way here is to modify the .nlf files.

Anders
13th November 2011 09:29 UTC

The easy solution is of course to put the version number in "Name", if you don't want to do that you can use this ugly workaround:

outfile test.exe

requestexecutionlevel user


Name "Test"

>!define VERSION 1.2.3


>!macro CreateSetupCaptionLangstring lang prefix suffix

>!tempfile tnsi

>!appendfile "${tnsi}" 'outfile "${tnsi}.exe"$\nrequestexecutionlevel user$\nLoadLanguageFile "${NSISDIR}\Contrib\Language files\${lang}.nlf"$\n'

>!appendfile "${tnsi}" 'section$\nFileOpen $0 "${tnsi}.nsh" w$\n'

>!appendfile "${tnsi}" 'FileWrite $0 `!define SetupCaption "$(^SetupCaption)"`$\nsectionend$\nName "xxx"$\n'

>!system '"${NSISDIR}\makensis" "${tnsi}"' = 0

>!delfile "${tnsi}"

>!system '"${tnsi}.exe" /S' = 0

>!delfile "${tnsi}.exe"

>!include "${tnsi}.nsh"

>!delfile "${tnsi}.nsh"

>!undef tnsi

>!searchreplace SetupCaption "${SetupCaption}" "xxx " "${prefix}"

>!ifndef LANG_${lang}

   LoadLanguageFile "${NSISDIR}\Contrib\Language files\${lang}.nlf"

>!endif

>LangString "^SetupCaption" ${LANG_${lang}} "${SetupCaption}${suffix}"

>!undef SetupCaption

>!macroend

>!macro LOAD_MUILANGUAGE_AND_SETUPCAPTION lang prefix suffix

>!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "${lang}"

>!insertmacro CreateSetupCaptionLangstring "${lang}" "$(^Name) v${VERSION} " ""

>!macroend


>!include "MUI2.nsh"

>!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_INSTFILES


>!insertmacro LOAD_MUILANGUAGE_AND_SETUPCAPTION "English" "$(^Name) v${VERSION} " ""

>!insertmacro LOAD_MUILANGUAGE_AND_SETUPCAPTION "Swedish" "$(^Name) v${VERSION} " ""

>!insertmacro LOAD_MUILANGUAGE_AND_SETUPCAPTION "Norwegian" "$(^Name) v${VERSION} " ""

>!insertmacro MUI_RESERVEFILE_LANGDLL


>Function .onInit

>!insertmacro MUI_LANGDLL_DISPLAY

FunctionEnd


section

sectionend 

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