SetPluginsDir instruction?

[Afrow UK]

I've always wanted this but I keep forgetting to ask for it (I end up helping others instead!) This should probably go on the request tracker, but I'm more familiar with this forum I'll post it on there too if you think it's a good idea.

Anyway, basically I want to be able to set my installer's $PLUGINSDIR. I like to keep files that my installer uses local to it (ie in a subfolder in $EXEDIR) rather than have a directory created in $TEMP everytime my installer is ran.
To be more clear, it's not an installer but more a utility like WinZip except it updates computer games.

I could just use CallInstDLL, but it's not so clean (you have to extract all the DLL's manually etc)

So, say if I wanted to place plugins in $EXEDIR\Cache, I'd have...
SetPluginsDir "$EXEDIR\Cache"
...in my script (compile time instruction outside Sections and Functions.)
To use the default path (with indiscrete folder names) we'd have to simply omit the instruction from the script.

Cheers

-Stu

[scully13]

This will do the trick although you do have to use CallInstDLL once to change $PLUGINSDIR. However, after you've set the $PLUGINSDIR you just use the normal methods for the other DLLs.

Change Variable Plugin

[Afrow UK]

Thanks scully, I didn't know about that plugin
I will try it out tonight.

-Stu