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BUGFIX: ReadINIStrWithDefault.nsh 1.1 (2009-05-12)

John T. Haller's picture
Submitted by John T. Haller on May 12, 2009 - 1:27pm

I've discovered a bug in the ReadINIStrWithDefault.nsh macro file I wrote that we use with many of our releases. Specifically $0 and $2 are accidentally swapped by the macro. I'm guessing that we haven't noticed it because most of the variables we use are defined and we only use the macro at the very beginning of our launchers before we make use of any of the other variables, but it could be affecting some launchers out there.

Here is the updated macro that fixes the issue:

; ReadINIStrWithDefault 1.1 (2009-05-12)
;
; Substitutes a default value if the INI is undefined

noob question

Submitted by Marcuzzo on May 8, 2009 - 10:37pm

I have created my first portable app.
everything seems to work ok but as soon as I compile the script the appName.exe (in my case 'tuxguitarPortable.exe' is not included.

when I install it to the menu it doesn't work and when I extract the content of the installer I only get the 3 folders 'App', 'Data', and "other".

and when I copy the appname.exe in the root folder it works...
howcome the launcher is not included when compiled...

please help me out

thanks in advance

Patch/modification submission

qwertymodo's picture
Submitted by qwertymodo on May 5, 2009 - 1:17am

Is there a format for submitting patches/modifications to existing apps? To avoid getting into trouble for cross-posting I won't mention the example in question, but there was an app that I had a fix for, and I added it as a comment to a thread discussing a problem that I fixed, then just posted to that thread, but I was wondering if there was a more centralized place for that kind of submission than the bottom of a thread buried in the "Other Apps" forum (where that unmentioned example is...

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