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Bizzeh
20th December 2001 23:22 UTC

Autorun help
is there a code that will let me "autorun" my app after install

thanks

DuaneJeffers
21st December 2001 02:00 UTC

1) Exec open "$INSTDIR\Myapp.exe"
2) ExecWait open "$INSTDIR\MyApp.exe"

The first one will open it. The second one will wait until it is closed to finish install.

-Duane

Didin17
21st December 2001 07:44 UTC

I use this:
Function .onInstSuccess
MessageBox MB_YESNO|MB_ICONQUESTION "Installation has completed. Launch MyApp now?" IDNO NoLaunch
ExecShell open "$INSTDIR\MyApp.exe"
NoLaunch:
FunctionEnd

petersa
24th December 2001 11:35 UTC

  ExecShell open "$INSTDIR\MyApp.exe"
  Exec $INSTDIR\MyApp.exe
Both of these lines do exactly the same thing. But the second one is faster because it doesn't check the registry to see what it has to do with the file.

Also, notice how I didn't surround with quotes in the second one. Quotes are only needed if the parameter ($INSTDIR\MyApp.exe) has a space. So 
  Exec "$INSTDIR\My App.exe"
would need quotes.

Didin17
26th December 2001 11:25 UTC

Thankyou
Thankyou very much.

deeva
31st December 2001 05:06 UTC

Originally posted by petersa
Also, notice how I didn't surround with quotes in the second one. Quotes are only needed if the parameter ($INSTDIR\MyApp.exe) has a space. So 
  Exec "$INSTDIR\My App.exe"
would need quotes.
But, maybe it's better to surround it with quotes, though the .exe not contain space, $INSTDIR can be resolved to string that contain space.

petersa
6th January 2002 06:07 UTC

Originally posted by deeva

But, maybe it's better to surround it with quotes, though the .exe not contain space, $INSTDIR can be resolved to string that contain space.
Even if $INSTDIR contains spaces, you don't need to surround it in quotes.

  SetOutPath $INSTDIR
This would never need quotes, regardless of its contents.

  SetOutPath $INSTDIR\Data Files
This wouldn't work.

justin
7th January 2002 01:38 UTC

Note that Exec needs a string that has quotes if it has spaces.
i.e. This would be necessary for reliable launching:

Exec '"$INSTDIR\MyApp.exe"'

-Justin

petersa
9th January 2002 13:47 UTC

Originally posted by justin
Note that Exec needs a string that has quotes if it has spaces.
i.e. This would be necessary for reliable launching:

Exec '"$INSTDIR\MyApp.exe"'
Okay, well apart from the Exex command, none of the other commands require quotes, because if they did, then all of these lines, taken from MAKENSIS.NSI, would yield unreliable directory creation/deletion, unreliable uninstaller creation...which they don't. :D

I don't see why Exec breaks this rule, though!

I think I can safely say that on most sytems, $PROGRAMFILES, $INSTDIR, and $SMPROGRAMS will all expand to something containing a space in it. Obviously here, they aren't surrounded by quotes of any kind. 
InstallDir $PROGRAMFILES\NSIS
  SetOutPath $INSTDIR
  SetOutPath $SMPROGRAMS\NSIS
  SetOutPath $INSTDIR\Contrib
  RMDir /r $INSTDIR\Source\Splash
  SetOutPath $INSTDIR\Contrib\Splash
  IfFileExists $SMPROGRAMS\NSIS 0 NoShortCuts
    CreateDirectory $SMPROGRAMS\NSIS\Contrib
  RMDir /r $INSTDIR\Source\Zip2Exe
  SetOutPath $INSTDIR\Contrib\zip2exe
  SetOutPath $INSTDIR\Contrib\zip2exe\zlib
  SetOutPath $INSTDIR\Contrib\InstallOptions
  SetOutPath $INSTDIR\Contrib\NSISdl
  SetOutPath $INSTDIR\Source
  SetOutPath $INSTDIR\Source\zlib
  SetOutPath $INSTDIR\Source\bzip2
  SetOutPath $INSTDIR\Source\exehead
  IfFileExists $SMPROGRAMS\NSIS 0 NoSourceShortCuts
  SetOutPath $INSTDIR\Contrib\ExDLL
  Delete $INSTDIR\uninst-nsis.exe 
  WriteUninstaller $INSTDIR\uninst-nsis.exe
  Delete $SMPROGRAMS\NSIS\Contrib\*.lnk
  Delete $SMPROGRAMS\NSIS\Contrib\*.url
  RMDir $SMPROGRAMS\NSIS\Contrib
  RMDir /r $INSTDIR\Contrib
  Delete $SMPROGRAMS\NSIS\*.lnk
  Delete $SMPROGRAMS\NSIS\*.url
  RMDir $SMPROGRAMS\NSIS
  Delete $DESKTOP\MakeNSIS.lnk
  Delete $INSTDIR\makensis*.exe
  Delete $INSTDIR\zip2exe.exe
  Delete $INSTDIR\installoptions.exe
  Delete $INSTDIR\installoptions.dll
  Delete $INSTDIR\splash.txt
  Delete $INSTDIR\splash.exe
  Delete $INSTDIR\makensis.htm
  Delete $INSTDIR\functions.htm
  Delete $INSTDIR\makensis.rtf
  Delete $INSTDIR\uninst-nsis.exe
  Delete $INSTDIR\nsisconf.nsi
  Delete $INSTDIR\makensis.nsi
  Delete $INSTDIR\example1.nsi
  Delete $INSTDIR\example2.nsi
  Delete $INSTDIR\waplugin.nsi
  Delete $INSTDIR\viewhtml.nsi
  Delete $INSTDIR\bigtest.nsi
  Delete $INSTDIR\primes.nsi
  Delete $INSTDIR\rtest.nsi
  Delete $INSTDIR\uglytest.nsi
  Delete $INSTDIR\spin.nsi
  Delete $INSTDIR\wafull.nsi
  Delete $INSTDIR\piglatin.nsh
  Delete $INSTDIR\caps.nsh
  Delete $INSTDIR\upgradedll.nsh
  Delete $INSTDIR\WinMessages.nsh
  Delete $INSTDIR\main.ico
  Delete $INSTDIR\makensis-license.txt
  Delete $INSTDIR\license.txt
  Delete $INSTDIR\uninst.ico
  Delete $INSTDIR\bitmap1.bmp
  Delete $INSTDIR\bitmap2.bmp
  RMDir /r $INSTDIR\Source
  RMDir $INSTDIR
MAKENSIS.NSI is living proof that quotes are not, not, NOT! needed when that particular parameter you type doesn't have a space. Regardless of what it expands to on runtime.

Because if MAKENSIS.NSI didn't compile, none of us would know what NSIS was.

The end. :D

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