Browse Install Location Bug?

Hello Everyone,

After moving to version 2.0, I noticed in my installers that if I browse for the installation directory the "Welcome to MyInstaller blah blah blah" gets appended to the return value from the browse button. Has this been addressed, or am I experiencing some other problem??

Cheers,

ZIMSMS

Only the product name should be appended. Please attach a script.

Hello Joost,

Here is a Multilingual Example Installer with Parameter and Silent Installation Support. Feel free to use it as a contribution. There is also an interesting function in the macros.nsh file to get a parameter value based on a specified parameter from the command line at runtime. (note you would need the modified strstr as well).

To reproduce the behavior with the browse instdir, appending the welcome text, just browse a location, and select a directory for install. It's reproducable every time.

This example was designed to work on 2000, xp, 2003, but will work on 95/98/me/nt if you modify the validos macro.

Cheers,
ZIMSMS

Well, considering the example is zipped, and is 2 megs, I guess I can't upload it 😢

I've cut it down to 867 k, by removing the built example...heh, but it's still a tiny bit too big for the upload item....must be the nullsoft header hehehe

upload it externaly then post a link.

Back to the topic, is there any way I can disable this?

I gather you could by removing the ability to install to a specified directory by commenting the MUI_PAGE_DIRECTORY insert statement.

Hello Joost,

What is the status on this?

CHeers,

ZIMSMS

It has already been fixed a few days ago, compile the latest CVS version 🙂

Cool Thsnks! May I ask what caused it, seeing as it didn't affect any of the small scripts I tried?

There was something wrong when InstallDir was used in combination with certain folders.

I just updated to the latest CVS build, and am still experiencing this issue. It is still reproducable with that example I sent you.

As I already said, the binary has not been updated yet so you have to recompile.

However, there still seem to be some problems with the name not being appended at all. That will be checked later.

Ahh, I missed that part. That's cool, better than "welcome to blah blah blah setup wizard" heh. I really appreciate your quick responses.

Cheers!

The problem is that InstallDir will not look for the backslash in the language string. You should therefore define a language string just for the last part and use:

InstallDir $PROGRAMFILES\$(ProductName)