Optional Desktop Icon

MichaelWithersJuly 18, 2007 at 9:07 AM#

Hi everyone , iam using the modern UI style that comes with NSIS to produce an installer. Does anybody know if theres a macro that comes with this style that will put a dialogue in my installer that will ask the user if they wish to place a shortcut icon onto the desktop?

Thanks Mike

JoelJuly 18, 2007 at 12:11 PM#

No, but you can create one....or....simple add a section given the user to choose or not.

MichaelWithersJuly 18, 2007 at 1:43 PM#

I was pretty sure this was the case after I scanned through system.nsh and looked at some of the macros. Is it quite easy to make your own screens with macros, or will I need to do some advanced tutorials?!

BrummelchenJuly 18, 2007 at 2:43 PM#

I would put that into the SECTION part like this example from my scripts:

SubSection /e "VerknÃ¼pfungen fÃ¼r aktuellen Benutzer" SecInfo30
  Section "StartmenÃ¼gruppe" SecInfo31
  SectionEnd
  Section /o "VerknÃ¼pfung auf dem Desktop" SecInfo32
  SectionEnd
  Section /o "VerknÃ¼pfung im SchnellstartmenÃ¼" SecInfo33
  SectionEnd
SubSectionEnd
SubSection "VerknÃ¼pfungen fÃ¼r alle Benutzer" SecInfo40
  Section /o "StartmenÃ¼gruppe" SecInfo41
  SectionEnd
  Section /o "VerknÃ¼pfung auf dem Desktop" SecInfo42
  SectionEnd
  Section /o "VerknÃ¼pfung im SchnellstartmenÃ¼" SecInfo43
  SectionEnd
SubSectionEnd

in english
- startmenu
- desktop
- quickstart

and here the part for read out options
(define goes in header of script)

  !define SF_SELFLAG "65"

  ;get section 30 flags (1 or 64)
  SectionGetFlags ${SecInfo30} $R9
  IntOp $R9 $R9 & ${SF_SELFLAG}
  ;get section 40 flags (1 or 64)
  SectionGetFlags ${SecInfo40} $R9
  IntOp $R9 $R9 & ${SF_SELFLAG}

  ;get user options from sections - current
  IntCmp $SECTION30 "0" setlinks06
    ;current user selected
    SectionGetFlags ${SecInfo31} $R9
    IntOp $START_MENU $R9 & ${SF_SELECTED}
    SectionGetFlags ${SecInfo32} $R9
    IntOp $DESK_TOP $R9 & ${SF_SELECTED}
    SectionGetFlags ${SecInfo33} $R9
    IntOp $QUICK_LAUNCH $R9 & ${SF_SELECTED}
    ;create shortcuts for current users
    SetShellVarContext current
    Goto setlinks07
  setlinks06:
  ;get user options from sections - alluser
  IntCmp $SECTION30 "0" setlinks07
    ;all users selected
    SectionGetFlags ${SecInfo41} $R9
    IntOp $START_MENU $R9 & ${SF_SELECTED}
    SectionGetFlags ${SecInfo42} $R9
    IntOp $DESK_TOP $R9 & ${SF_SELECTED}
    SectionGetFlags ${SecInfo43} $R9
    IntOp $QUICK_LAUNCH $R9 & ${SF_SELECTED}
    ;create shortcuts for all users
    SetShellVarContext all
    ;Goto setlinks06
  setlinks07:
  ;create startmenu

variables are related to section names