Spawned uninstaller instance

[bnicer]

Hello.
I need to insert MUI_UNPAGE_CONFIRM and disable a message in my uninstaller while running it from the installer. To detect if the uninstaller was spawned, I made-up a commandline switch "/U".

ExecWait "$UNINSTSTR /U _?=$UNINST\\bin" 

Is there an easier way?

The problem is inserting the confirm unpage macro inside a function that causes a compile-time error: command PageEx not valid in a Function.

; Un-Confirm page

Function un.confirm
  StrCmp $SPAWN "1" done
  !insertmacro MUI_UNPAGE_CONFIRM
  done:
FunctionEnd 

By way of explaining how I arrived at this point, I have two functions in the uninstaller that test for the /U switch.

; Variables
Var SPAWN

; Search in a string from right to left
; Usage:
;  Push "this is a long ass string"
;  Push "ass"
;  Call (un.)StrStrRight
;  Pop $R0
;  ($R0 at this point is "ass string")
Function un.StrStrRight
  Exch $R1 ; st=haystack,old$R1, $R1=needle
  Exch    ; st=old$R1,haystack
  Exch $R2 ; st=old$R1,old$R2, $R2=haystack
  Push $R3
  Push $R4
  Push $R5
  StrLen $R3 $R1
  StrLen $R4 $R2
  IntOp $R4 $R4 - 1
  loop:
    StrCpy $R5 $R2 $R3 $R4
    StrCmp $R5 $R1 done
    StrCmp $R5 "" done
    IntOp $R4 $R4 - 1
    Goto loop
done:
  IntOp $R4 $R4 + 1
  StrCpy $R1 $R2 "" $R4
  Pop $R5
  Pop $R4
  Pop $R3
  Pop $R2
  Exch $R1
FunctionEnd

; Return length from end of string
; Usage:
;  user variable "SPAWN" equals characters to end of string
;  where "/U" is the last commandline parameter, the output contains 1
Function un.spawn
  Push $CMDLINE
  Push "/U"
  Call un.StrStrRight
  Pop $R0
  StrLen $SPAWN $R0
FunctionEnd

Function un.onInit
  Call un.spawn 
...
FunctionEnd 

PS: Potentially, you could hard-code the switch and query with 'IfSpawned', similar to 'IfSilent' ... just an idea.

edit:

Almost forgot. "Normally" you skip pages with an Abort call in a custom function. Normally. Aborting unpage confirm, aborts the uninstaller.

; Un-Confirm page

!define MUI_PAGE_CUSTOMFUNCTION_PRE un.confirm
!insertmacro MUI_UNPAGE_CONFIRM

Function un.confirm
  StrCmp $SPAWN "1" done
    Abort
  done:
FunctionEnd 

Why?

[bnicer]

My uninstaller script has few twists in it. It should be straightforward and yet pages aren't skipped. I've tried Abort with MUI_UNPAGE_WELCOME too and it only aborts the application. When I run the uninstaller alone or, when I launch it from the installer without any precondition, a pure Abort page callback, simply, well... aborts.

[bnicer]

Yep. Calling the Abort function in un.onInit wasn't the brightest thing I ever did. Crap happens.

[kichik]

So does Abort in the pre function work or not?

[bnicer]

The PRE function works, it skips the page. It did not abort the uninstaller. I was confused. The uninstaller aborted from un.onInit and you can't put !insertmacro MUI_UNPAGE_CONFIRM into a function that skips the page. Really confused.

[bnicer]

ExecWait:
The NSIS documentation insists on an extra pair of quotes to delimit the command proper from the commandline parameters, or "it [ExecWait] will not work on Windows 9x with or without parameters". I'm less than convinced this applies also where the command is stored in a variable. I ran an uninstaller with ExecWait on 95 and 98 and not having additional quotes didn't give me problems, although putting the command in quotes is probably safer.

ExecWait '"$UNINSTSTR" /U _?=$UNINST\\bin' 

It works.