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sazr
sazr

Reputation: 25938

NSIS has 2 ways of declaring variables and for Conditional Statements

Something thats really annoying me with NSIS is why there are 2 different ways of doing things?

  1. Why have 2 ways of performing conditional statements/logic. Ie, use '$if' or use 'StrCmp'?
  2. Why be able to store variables in many different ways. Ie, use '$myvar' or use 'var myVar' and I think theres more
  3. Why have assembly to access store variables? Why not just use the above methods
  4. Why can you create a comment by using both ';' or '#'

Can you suggest a link that documents all the global variables? Such as $INSTDIR and others?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5401

Answers (2)

jncraton
jncraton

Reputation: 9132

The list of reserved variables is available in the documentation. Writable variables are in section 4.2.2, and constants are in 4.2.3.

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.2.2

Upvotes: 0

Chris Morgan
Chris Morgan

Reputation: 90842

You clearly haven't understood all of how NSIS works.

  1. ${If} and all of those things are from LogicLib, which was added to the NSIS standard library after it had been in existence for a long time. Formerly, you had to use StrCmp, IntCmp, or one of those jump operators. ${If} a == b is just syntax sugar around StrCmp with the labels all taken care of. It produces much more maintainable code.

  2. Var foo is the variable declaration. $foo is accessing the variable. They are thus quite different things. You can't use $foo without having already specified Var foo.

  3. I haven't a clue what you mean by this.

  4. Does it matter?

  5. Look in the manual. It's all there in plain sight. Try the Variables section.

Upvotes: 3

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