Re: Help with Windows installer - nsis

[Joe Wilkinson]

Hi Richard,
On a 5 year old HP laptop running Windows 10 it installed fine.
There is a shortcut in the start menu and one on the desktop.
And the program seems to start fine, asking me if I want to keep my old 
commands, snippets etc. (I haven't run it fully, just started it up)
Was it supposed to run denemo by a click on a music.denemo file? That 
doesn't happen - I go into an XML reader.
It downloaded rather slower than I am used to with the daily file; were 
you standing on your ethernet cable (??!!)
And it gave a window with every file name being extracted (this may be 
normal- I don't install many applications these days). The sheer number 
of them made me wonder at the size of the beast!
with best wishes
Joe

On 01/06/2020 22:04, Richard Shann wrote:
> It occurred to me that it should be quite easy to make an installer
> that would install the version 2.4 of Denemo for Windows that is only
> available as a zip file. That would be more comfortable for novice
> users.
> I came up with this script for the nsis installer creation program:
>
> 8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><
> !include "MUI.nsh"
> !define MUI_ABORTWARNING
> !insertmacro MUI_PAGE_WELCOME
> !insertmacro MUI_PAGE_DIRECTORY
> !insertmacro MUI_PAGE_INSTFILES
> !insertmacro MUI_PAGE_FINISH
> !insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "English"
>
> Name "Denemo"
> OutFile "DenemoInstaller.exe"
> InstallDir "$PROGRAMFILES\Denemo"
> ShowInstDetails show
> RequestExecutionLevel admin
> Section
> SetOutPath $INSTDIR
> File /r denemo\*
> CreateShortcut "$SMPROGRAMS\Denemo.lnk" "$INSTDIR\Denemo.bat"
> CreateShortcut "$DESKTOP\Denemo.lnk" "$INSTDIR\Denemo.bat"
> SectionEnd
>
>
> 8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><
>
> Using that I got this installer
>
> http://www.denemo.org/~rshann/Denemo2.4Installer.exe
>
> I've tested this on an old Windows vista laptop (all I have access to)
> and it does install Denemo correctly. However, the script is intended
> to create a shortcut in the start menu and one on the Desktop to launch
> the program and these don't appear.
>
> 1) Could people with more modern Windows gear test that it works?
>
> 2) Could someone suggest why the links don't appear?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Richard