Seperate Component Selection Order from Install Order?

As far as I'm aware, the order of Sections determines both:

* The order in which those components are presented to the user for selection on the Choose/Select Components page.

* The order in which any installation commands such as "File" are run.

Can I have two components, A & B, presented for selection as:

* A
* B

But if the user selects to install both, the files associated with B are installed _before_ A?

I know this is a minor matter but hope someone could offer a simple solution.

Thanks,

P.

Add another invisible section after those two. In that section, check if section B is selected and if so, do something. Then check if section A is selected and if so, do another thing. In section A and B, do nothing. This way, you can control the order of execution while retaining the visible order.

Originally posted by kichik
Add another invisible section after those two. In that section, check if section B is selected and if so, do something.

Thanks. Would I use !define and !ifdef for this?

For example:

Section "Component A"

; stuff

!define UseChoseComponentA "true"

SectionEnd

Section "Component B"

; stuff

!define UserChoseComponentB "true"

SectionEnd

Section

; invisible section

!ifdef UserChoseComponentB
file /r DirectoryB
!endif

!ifdef UserChoseComponentA
file /r DirectoryA
!endif

No, those are for compile time. Simply set some variable in section A and B to let section C know it should do something.

!include LogicLib.nsh

Var A

Var B

Section A

StrCpy $A install

SectionEnd

Section B

StrCpy $B install

Section End

Section ""

${If} $A == install

# install A

${EndIf}

${If} $B == install

# install B

${EndIf}

SectionEnd