Passing space for a variable to use

Hi, I am wondering how I make sure my variable has enough space to store a 12 character code in. It appears that without giving it more space, it cuts off the last character of the code.

I am using the PPC-Registry plugin to read the value from the PDA's registry.

Thanks if anyone can help.

IIRC, the normal nsis build has a variable size of 1024 chars

I think I have found where the problem is occurring.
It appears that the code is not being written properly by my application to the registry in the first place.
If I create the activation code manually it will work fine.

Perhaps the string isn't being null-terminated.

Thanks for all the help.

Yes possibly the plugin isn't taking into account that the string length needs to be 1 greater to add the null-terminator which is overwriting an existing character.

Stu

Is there possibly a way I can tell the plugin how many characters to read?

Otherwise, I'm looking at the way we write to the registry with my application. So, I think this may be the only way to fix it if the plugin won't take another paramater.

Cheers

You really should contact the author of the plugin. Contact Instructor who should be able to help you.

Stu

Thanks,
I have found a workaround for the meantime.
Using the same PPC-Registry plugin, I am able to Copy the code to a temp location, then at end of installation, copy it back, and delete the temp version.

Thanks for everyone's help on this issue.
Zbd