Destination Folder

NSISNUBMarch 23, 2011 at 4:09 PM#

I have enabled MUI_PAGE_DIRECTORY to allow the Destination folder to be set, however my problem is I want to only allow the Drive letter of the directory to change not the folder name.

How can this be done?

thanks,

MSGMarch 24, 2011 at 5:31 AM#

A very dirty solution would be to StrCpy $INSTDIR $INSTDIR 2 , but that's guaranteed to go wrong at some point: If the user enters a network path, for example. You could create a custom page with for example a dropdown select box, and populate that by enumerating all results from kernel32::GetLogicalDrives. See here for an example implementation.

NSISNUBMarch 24, 2011 at 7:39 PM#

So I shouldn't be using the MUI_PAGE_DIRECTORY at all then?

MSGMarch 25, 2011 at 4:56 AM#

If you're going to create a custom page then yes, you wouldn't use the directory page. If you want to use the directory page anyhow, you're probably interested in the GetRoot macro in filefunc.nsh.

T.SlappyMarch 25, 2011 at 6:33 AM#

Create custom page using nsDialogs like this:

But do not create a Browse button as me and set EditBox for ReadOnly
User can select drive in box below path which changes the first letter only, not the whole path.

NSISNUBMarch 25, 2011 at 11:16 AM#

Any code examples?

pengyouMarch 25, 2011 at 12:33 PM#

There are eight example scripts in the ListView Header zip file which can be found here:

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Header_file_for_Listview

Here is a screenshot from a very slightly modified version of the example.nsi script in that zip file:

NSISNUBMarch 25, 2011 at 12:43 PM#

Yeah I think that one you attached pengyou is what I am looking for minus the browse button.

pengyouMarch 25, 2011 at 12:46 PM#

You can remove the browse button quite easily - just delete some lines from the example script.

NSISNUBMarch 25, 2011 at 12:50 PM#

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for, great help!

jiakeMarch 25, 2011 at 3:08 PM#

Examples have been update again just now, please download the latest ones.

NSISNUBMarch 25, 2011 at 4:35 PM#edited March 25, 2011 at 6:18 PM

Hey I got rid of the Browse Button, but how do you make the directory read only?
How can you restrict the drive types? ie. no usb etc.
Is there a easy way to grab the amount of free space value for the selected drive?

NSISNUBMarch 26, 2011 at 5:04 PM#

Originally Posted by NSISNUB View Post

Hey I got rid of the Browse Button, but how do you make the directory read only?
How can you restrict the drive types? ie. no usb etc.
Is there a easy way to grab the amount of free space value for the selected drive?

Got it all working.