rizzi
12th April 2001 18:46 UTC

Is there a way to disable the Custom install type?

What I need is for each InstType to only be allowed to have specific sections. For example:

InstType "Typical"
InstType "Typical w/ Eval Server"
InstType "Typical w/ Stage Server"

Section "Kenamea Desktop Software"
SectionIn 1,2,3
...

Section "Eval Server Support"
SectionIn 2
...

Section "Stage Server Support"
SectionIn 3
...

Where "Typical" can only have
"Kenamea Desktop Software" selected,
OR
"Typical w/ Eval Server" can only have
"Kenamea Desktop Software" and "Eval Server Support" selected,
OR
"Typical w/ Stage Server" can only have
"Kenamea Desktop Software" and "Eval Server Support" selected.

thanks a lot,
mike rizzi

rm'
17th April 2001 06:40 UTC

?

Shouldn't what you have work anyway?

rizzi
18th April 2001 18:30 UTC

Sadly, no.

Ideally, I was looking for a way to *only* allow one of the Installation Types. In other words, disallow the user from selecting more than the sections associated with that InstType. In my case, I didn't want to allow the user to select both "Eval Server" and "Stage Server," it needed to be one or the other.

After looking at the source code, I couldn't find a way to disable the "Custom" InstType, so I created a workaround that involved inserting some custom C++ code into main.c of exehead and writing a conditional NSI file. Unfortunately, it isn't generic enough code to submit to Jason for possible inclusion in the main NSIS code path. I'll need to think of a better approach for that.

thanks,
mike rizzi
p.s. FYI, y'all can add Kenamea (www.kenamea.com) to your list of companies that is using NSIS.

rizzi
18th April 2001 22:56 UTC

I just noticed that rev 1.2g has
* Added /NOCUSTOM switch for InstType

Cool!

Thanks Jason, et al.

mike