[CMake] NSIS Start Menu Directory

[David Cole]

Sounds like a good idea.
Bug tracker feature requests get lost less easily than ideas hiding in the
mailing list archives....


:-)
David


On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:02 PM, James Bigler <jamesbigler at gmail.com> wrote:

> According to this page I can set all sorts of variables the affect the
> MUI macros, but I have to define them before they are included.
> http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Modern%20UI%202/Readme.html
>
> I think I can define things using this:
>    set(CPACK_NSIS_DEFINES "  !define MUI_STARTMENUPAGE_DEFAULTFOLDER
> \\\"Vendor\\\\Project\\\"")
>
> This seemed to do what I wanted, but perhaps it would be useful to
> have a convenience CPACK_NSIS variable for this.
>
> James
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:41 AM, James Bigler <jamesbigler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I want to add a Vendor directory in front, so that in my Start Menu I
> > get: Start->Vendor->My Project
> >
> > James
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:39 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com>
> wrote:
> >> Ah, sorry. My brain didn't register "start menu" properly.
> >>
> >> What are you trying to add to the start menu? A shortcut to an installed
> >> file? Or do you want to control the name of the start menu folder that
> >> contains those shortcuts?
> >> For shortcuts, see CPACK_NSIS_MENU_LINKS or CPACK_PACKAGE_EXECUTABLES
> >> variables... Example usages in CMake's source tree can be found in
> >> CMake/CMakeCPackOptions.cmake.in
> >>
> >> HTH,
> >> David
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:27 PM, James Bigler <jamesbigler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I'm using that file.  I noticed the bug and grabbed the CVS of the
> file.
> >>>
> >>> While this allows me to specify a subdirectory for the installation
> >>> location, the start menu is now just the project name.
> >>>
> >>> James
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:22 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> > See issue http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=8682
> >>> > (which I resolved yesterday...)
> >>> > But you'll have to use CVS CMake for now to get the fix. (Or
> >>> > copy/override
> >>> > the new NSIS.template.in to an older CMake installation.)
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > HTH,
> >>> > David
> >>> >
> >>> > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:17 PM, James Bigler <jamesbigler at gmail.com>
> >>> > wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> I want to be able to add "Vendor\Project" to the start menu, but I
> >>> >> don't want all the installer to say things like "Welcome to the
> >>> >> Vendor\Project setup".  Is there a configuration variable for this?
>  I
> >>> >> went poking around NSIS.template.in and didn't notice anything.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Thanks,
> >>> >> James
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