NSIS Quick Setup Script Generator

My Problem: At the end after i click GENERATE i dont get any Outputted File?! Why could be that?

Not sure if I got your point...

Just in case an issue has caused because I've compiled the app with the latest NSIS nightly build, I went back to NSIS 2.16, recompiled and reuploaded.
Though, there is a strange thing happens. I can't access the NSIS quick setup script generator page at wiki. I was able to upload the file normally, but the page is disappeared from my view, I get only a blank page.

edit: all normal again :-)
Download link.

I get the same problem as karabey -> everything runs normally but I don't get an output (other than the .ini file). Even though I've checked both 'Save compiled script for further editing' and 'Also open up saved script in notepad', there's nothing in my Compiler Preferences Browse folder

??

Everything runs normal for me, I'm still on NSIS 2.16. I guess I have to upgrade to 2.17 and re-compile.
Until now, the app is checked 1000 times on Win XP sp 2 and Win 98 SE, never had such problems.
Does anybody else has same problems like RussW?

Everything works fine for me even in 2.17. I can't reproduce the fault so I can't find a reason why it happened. Any ideas?

here at work, I can't even get past Step 2: Please specify the output directory and applicatin files.

get error: Please verify that installation files source folder exists!

I'm using NSIS 2.17 and I extracted QSSG to the NSIS install folder

Originally posted by Red Wine
Everything runs normal for me, I'm still on NSIS 2.16. I guess I have to upgrade to 2.17 and re-compile.
Until now, the app is checked 1000 times on Win XP sp 2 and Win 98 SE, never had such problems.
Does anybody else has same problems like RussW?

Yes. Tested on 2 systems with NSIS 2.16 & 2.18


Can anybody post a Script with "Allow user to disable Start menu" ?

Not able to reproduce this problem either.
Everything works fine for me. Tested on 4 clean XP systems this morning. The application does work exactly as it has to.
Don't know what else to do. Any light please?

Tested on a new clean german XP system with SP2. Same problem. No script available on PC 😱 and in this thread 🧟

Hello,
just posted a full working example for those who they are asking for this.
The example creates a complete installation of the well known famous xp-antispy application.
Please download the example from HERE and extract it to your local drive C recreating the original path structure. (The path should be as C:\TEMP\NQSSG).
Obviusly requires an active NSIS installation.
regards

I have a little more information on the problem that karabey and RossW saw where the program ran fine but there was no output file. I also had no output file when I first ran the program. I am running dual-boot, with Windows 98SE on disk C: and Windows XP on disk D: ; when I installed NSIS and this very excellent Script Generator program in Windows XP, on disk D:, there was no output from your Script Generator. When I re-booted into Windows 98SE on disk C:, and installed both NSIS and the Script Generator, then it gave an output file. When I rebooted to Windows XP, now it also gave an output file. IF I renamed both the NSIS and Script Generator installation directories which were on disk C: so that they were no longer accessible to Windows XP running on D:, then it again gave no output file. Therefore, I conclude that when NSIS and the Script Generator Program are not installed on disk C:, it is still trying to access something on disk C: (and it should not if that's not where it was installed). Thanks for the program!

@ cisco80 thanks for your support.
Strange case while there is not even a single hard-coded line of code. I use constants and vars everywhere is needed, ${NSISDIR} for the case you mentioned. Probably this goes outside of my knowledge, last things I should do are to re-read line by line the entire code and set up a dual boot system trying to re-produce the bug.
Thanks

I'll try to help you out by spending a little more time narrowing the problem down to whether it is looking for NSIS or the Script Generator on C:. If only Windows XP would tell me what data access it was trying to do that failed . . .

Originally posted by Red Wine
@ cisco80 thanks for your support.
Strange case while there is not even a single hard-coded line of code. I use constants and vars everywhere is needed, ${NSISDIR} for the case you mentioned. Probably this goes outside of my knowledge, last things I should do are to re-read line by line the entire code and set up a dual boot system trying to re-produce the bug.
Thanks

${NSISDIR} is build time definition not a variable. So if you use ${NSISDIR} e.g. To look the makensis.exe it will only work if NSIS is installed in the same path as it is in the computer where the utility was build on.

You can get the NSIS installation path at run time in the registry.
ReadRegStr $0 HKLM "Software\NSIS" ""

idk if its just me when every time i run it is says "nsis quick setup script generator requires an active nsis installation on youre system please visit nsis's homepage to obtian the current release. I have nsis 2.20 installed and working what am i doing wrong
and just asking will the source ever be realesed?
idea on next realese allow the user to choose the nsis install dir directory

nycjv321, it seems like {_trueparuex^} may have answered your question, also. From his post, it sounds like if you have not installed NSIS in "C:\PROGRAM FILES\NSIS", then it will not work. Could that be your problem?

I guess we got the solution thanks to {_trueparuex^} support.
It is too obvious so I could not grab it by my self :-)
I'm going to check it right now and post a fixed release later.
Thank you all.

yea i installed it to "C:\PROGRAM FILES\NSIS"
i check this out later not at home pc

OK fixed release uploaded to wiki.
Please download from wiki.
Regards

yea i check the registry it wasnt there the nsis portable launcher i was using was conflicting with it so i reinstalled nsis to add the reg keys and that fixed the problem 🙂 i used it and it is aswome! does all the coding for you woot but
as a feature in a later realese, when u have time, maybe add the option of save the code it uses to compile i notice it saves compile info but it would help it would to save the code for noobies like me to help me learn more about nsis (thats why i wanted to see the sources for "NSIS Quick Setup Script Generator" but seeing this great app i wont bug about it)

@ nycjv321
Thanks for the feedback. There is already an option to save the script and edit later. You could find the saved script into the same folder with the compiled setup.exe.
Regards

o duh probobly didnt look thx for the reply

I'm trying to download the NSIS wizard and WIKI says that there is no file found on the page. Any thoughts as to where this file has been moved to?

SourceForge have migrated their servers and broke our website on the process. It'll be back soon.

Hello.

Can a subfolder be chosen for the Start Menu location?

For example:

Instead of installing to a folder called FIGHT it installs to a sub-folder called FIGHT, within a folder called GAMES.

So, START MENU -> GAMES -> FIGHT

When I try to configure the program to do this, I enter the following text in the "Start Menu Folder Name" box:

GAMES\FIGHT

But the program reports:

"Please specify a valid path for the installer." 🙁

Any help appreciated, thanks.

Probably should be $STARTMENU\Games\Fight ?

Originally Posted by MSG View Post

Probably should be $STARTMENU\Games\Fight ?

Nope, that doesn't work either.