[CMake] NSIS Start Menu Directory

[James Bigler]

http://www.vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=8866

I'm just barely getting my feet wet with NSIS, but let me know if
there is anything I can do to help out.

James

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:39 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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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