INSTALLOPTIONS_EXTRACT PluginsDir

[tnteverett]

Attempting to use InstallOptions with a custom menu.ini file. However when I put my INI file in a different directory and fully define the path, the compiler shows "$PLUGINSDIR\" in front of my fully qualified file name.
Is there any way to redefine $PLUGINSDIR or is there a way to make individual function calls ignore this variable?
This was not a problem until I attempted to use this command to reset the "state" value in the INI before using it again.
!insertmacro INSTALLOPTIONS_WRITE "{my path}\menu.ini" "field 3" "state" "{my value}"

From the compiler:
!insertmacro: INSTALLOPTIONS_EXTRACT
InitPluginsDir
File: "menu.ini"->"$PLUGINSDIR\{my path}\menu.ini"
Is there any way to make this work?

[JasonFriday13]

Just use a relative path. $pluginsdir is a temp directory specifically for files used during the install. You don't have to use the MUI installoptions macros, you can use the installoptions plugin directly as well. Although it's probably better to use nsDialogs which superseded installoptions.

[Anders]

There is a "extract as" macro IIRC, otherwise you can manually extract like Jason suggested.

[tnteverett]

Relative path is cumbersome when paths are so different. I will consider moving to nsDialogs.
Thanks

[Anders]

You don't have to use the EXTRACT macro, you can use File and extract wherever you want.