SFP Sonic
5th June 2002 09:48 UTC

Destination Browse Bug
I've noticed an irritataing bug when chosing your destination on an NSIS installer. I explain what I see, to help you understand what is going on. I'm using an installer to add maps to the game BZ2. When I start up, it read C:\Program Files\Battlezone II. I would like to change the directory, so I hit browse. I browse through the file tree and chose D:\Games\bzii. When I hit ok, and go back to the Destination screen, my destination now reads: D:\games\bzii\Battlezone II

My guess is that its attaching the default path onto the user's selection. Can this be disabled?

Smile2Me
5th June 2002 09:55 UTC

Yes, but you could try to avoid the dirselection page by reading the proper installdir from registry.

From the docs:
to disable this, end the directory with a \ (which will require the entire parameter to be enclosed with quotes).

I hope this helps.

Good luck,
-Hendri.

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To be honest, my first answer was no, since I did not remember this option. To be sure, I looked into the docs again and found the answer. I was just a sec quicker with my edit than Schultz with his reply. Thx Schultz for keeping a close eye to the answers and correcting where necessary!
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Schultz
5th June 2002 10:02 UTC

This is directly from the NSIS docs

InstallDir definstdir

Sets the default installation directory is. See the variables section for variables that can be used to make this string (especially $PROGRAMFILES). Note that the part of this string following the last \ will be used if the user selects 'browse', and may be appended back on to the string at install time (to disable this, end the directory with a \ (which will require the entire parameter to be enclosed with quotes)). If this doesn't make any sense, play around with the browse button a bit.

SFP Sonic
6th June 2002 01:03 UTC

Thanks for the response, problem with the regkey is that many people have multiple installs of bz2, and the regkey on keeps track of one. Once again, thanks.