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April 19, 2007 - 3:37pm
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Run file instead of exe in NSIS?

Hey all,
I want to know if there's a way to launch another file extension besides .exe (right now I'd like .mdb). Is there another function besides ExecWait I can do this with??

Here's my current code:
BTW: I'm making my splash screens for files, this one's for our church database.

Name "Myname"
OutFile "MyOutput.exe"
Caption "Mycaption"

Icon "Myicon.ico"

CRCCheck On
WindowIcon Off
SilentInstall Silent
AutoCloseWindow True
RequestExecutionLevel user

Section "Main"
			;=== Show the splash screen while processing registry entries
			InitPluginsDir
			File /oname=$PLUGINSDIR\splash.jpg "MySplashScreen.jpg"
			newadvsplash::show /NOUNLOAD 4000 200 0 -1 /L $PLUGINSDIR\splash.jpg

		
		ExecWait "someprog.exe"
		newadvsplash::wait
SectionEnd

[Moderator RM: Use <pre> instead of <code> for code blocks. I fixed for you]
[Thanks Ryan, I had just figured out how to do that, and then came back and it was changed! Thanks.]

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April 19, 2007 - 3:39pm
John T. Haller
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Shell

It's shell run or something similar to that. The issue, of course, is that the given OS must have a file association for MDB (most of which won't as most PCs don't have access installed).

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April 19, 2007 - 3:42pm
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Fine if it doesn't

I'm just making this for one comp, I won't put it on any without access...thing is, I'd like to be able to do this without having to make a separate file launcher exe. BTW, it needs to work on '98. Thanks

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April 22, 2007 - 5:22pm
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You can always use the thing

You can always use the thing that's the best and the worst in NSIS. Shell plugin.
The best - you can write everything in it.
The worst - it's often faster to rewrite your launcher to another language than to us e it.

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April 24, 2007 - 4:44am
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ExecShell

From the "Instructions" page of the NSIS User Manual:

4.9 Instructions
4.9.1 Basic Instructions
{...}
4.9.1.3 ExecShell
action command [parameters] [SW_SHOWNORMAL | SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED | SW_SHOWMINIMIZED | SW_HIDE]
Execute the specified program using ShellExecute. Note that action is usually
"open", "print", etc, but can be an empty string to use the default action.
Parameters and the show type are optional. $OUTDIR is used for the working
directory. The error flag is set if the process could not be launched.

ExecShell "open" "http://nsis.sf.net/"
ExecShell "open" "$INSTDIR\readme.txt"
ExecShell "print" "$INSTDIR\readme.txt"

I hope that that's what you want.
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April 24, 2007 - 3:02pm
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Thanks...

Actually, I found out about that yesterday, and it's just what I want, I just forgot to post about it. BTW, where is this 'NSIS User Manual'??

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