Loding files with invisible installer

New_Installer · 31st January 2004, 19:08

Greetings

I´m new to using the NSIS installer and I was wondering how image files or sound files can be loaded with the script. I can add an image file to the script, but, it only knows to look for it on my hard drive and not on the potential user´s hard drive.

I´ve used this code to load a temp IE Explorer file:

GetTempFileName $R0
FileOpen $0 $R0 "w" ;open htmltemp file in windowed mode.
;backslash to continue with the same line and omit
;html double quotes. They throw an error when compiling.
FileWrite $0 "<HTML>\
<BODY BGCOLOR=#00FF99>\
<H1>THIS THAT AND THE OTHER STUFF#1</H1>\
<H1>Pertaining to this, that or the other, actually</H1>\
<p>Blah blah blah!\
<br>until the cows come home\
<br>to root!</p>\
<H4>More stuff goes here and there</H4>\
<br>\
<IMG SRC=file://C|/mainimagefolder/logo/logo1.gif WIDTH=320 HEIGHT=240 ALT=Try the Power of this now! BORDER=0>\
<br><A HREF=http:\\www.mycompany.html>Click here to get the Latest version!</A>\
</BODY>\
</HTML>"

FileClose $0

;By the way, the above code compiles just fine, as long as
;thye final EXE knows where the image file is on my hard
;drive. If the final EXE can´t find the image, it will just show that little infamous "x" in it´s place along with the text and hyperlink when the user clicks on the final EXE icon.

;Sorry for the questions and thank you for the reply.

New_Installer

kichik · 31st January 2004, 19:14

Use the File instruction to extract files. See the examples in the Examples folder.

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31st January 2004, 19:08	#1
New_Installer Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 2	Loding files with invisible installer Greetings I´m new to using the NSIS installer and I was wondering how image files or sound files can be loaded with the script. I can add an image file to the script, but, it only knows to look for it on my hard drive and not on the potential user´s hard drive. I´ve used this code to load a temp IE Explorer file: GetTempFileName $R0 FileOpen $0 $R0 "w" ;open htmltemp file in windowed mode. ;backslash to continue with the same line and omit ;html double quotes. They throw an error when compiling. FileWrite $0 "<HTML>\ <BODY BGCOLOR=#00FF99>\ <H1>THIS THAT AND THE OTHER STUFF#1</H1>\ <H1>Pertaining to this, that or the other, actually</H1>\ <p>Blah blah blah!\ <br>until the cows come home\ <br>to root!</p>\ <H4>More stuff goes here and there</H4>\ <br>\ <IMG SRC=file://C\|/mainimagefolder/logo/logo1.gif WIDTH=320 HEIGHT=240 ALT=Try the Power of this now! BORDER=0>\ <br><A HREF=http:\\www.mycompany.html>Click here to get the Latest version!</A>\ </BODY>\ </HTML>" FileClose $0 ;By the way, the above code compiles just fine, as long as ;thye final EXE knows where the image file is on my hard ;drive. If the final EXE can´t find the image, it will just show that little infamous "x" in it´s place along with the text and hyperlink when the user clicks on the final EXE icon. ;Sorry for the questions and thank you for the reply. New_Installer