prompt user for information?

Locutus123 · 19th April 2001, 19:24

Hi,
really cool tool!

But I think there is one feature missing:
I need to get some information from the user, e.g
name, additional install directories, ...
Is there a way to prompt for such strings? There are
user defined variables, but it seems, I can only set their
value within the script.
Ok, I could open a temporary ini file that asks the user to
fill in everything in notepad. This file then could be read by the installer, but what if the user doesn't save it?
A separate tab in the installer that can be reached via the
next-buttons would be much better.
Maybe a popup-window would do, if it returns a string.
Is there such a feature planned?

Locutus123

dbareis · 20th April 2001, 01:53

Hi,

I would also find this useful. Just a simple one question dialog would be OK for me (I'd just call multiple times). This should be easy to do and data would probably be treated like registry read user variables (maybe need more than 9 though)...

Bye
Dennis

wohleb · 23rd April 2001, 21:51

Most definately it would be of use. I've found that installation of Java apps can be a pain when the target audience is not Java aware. Currently I am just blindly redisting the JRE as per the JRE license in a sub dir of my app. Prefereably, I would give the user another select dir dialog like the first one.

snowbird · 28th April 2001, 08:05

In my opinion this is the one feature that
professional installers have and NSIS doesn't.
Is there any chance this is going to be seen
in NSIS soon?

snowbird · 30th April 2001, 17:37

Would anyone of the NSIS programmers please
post a reply to this wonderful feature request?
Thx :-)

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19th April 2001, 19:24	#1
Locutus123 Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 3	Hi, really cool tool! But I think there is one feature missing: I need to get some information from the user, e.g name, additional install directories, ... Is there a way to prompt for such strings? There are user defined variables, but it seems, I can only set their value within the script. Ok, I could open a temporary ini file that asks the user to fill in everything in notepad. This file then could be read by the installer, but what if the user doesn't save it? A separate tab in the installer that can be reached via the next-buttons would be much better. Maybe a popup-window would do, if it returns a string. Is there such a feature planned? Locutus123

20th April 2001, 01:53	#2
dbareis Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 77	Hi, I would also find this useful. Just a simple one question dialog would be OK for me (I'd just call multiple times). This should be easy to do and data would probably be treated like registry read user variables (maybe need more than 9 though)... Bye Dennis

23rd April 2001, 21:51	#3
wohleb Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 1	Most definately it would be of use. I've found that installation of Java apps can be a pain when the target audience is not Java aware. Currently I am just blindly redisting the JRE as per the JRE license in a sub dir of my app. Prefereably, I would give the user another select dir dialog like the first one.

28th April 2001, 08:05	#4
snowbird Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 13	In my opinion this is the one feature that professional installers have and NSIS doesn't. Is there any chance this is going to be seen in NSIS soon?

30th April 2001, 17:37	#5
snowbird Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 13	Would anyone of the NSIS programmers please post a reply to this wonderful feature request? Thx :-)