nsis.rst
author Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
Fri, 11 Dec 2015 10:03:50 +0200
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Specs.

-*- mode: outline; coding: utf-8 -*-

* Strings.

String is a sequence of chars. To represent spaces enclose string in quotes.
To escape quote use $\. ${MACRO_NAME}, $(VAR_NAME) substituted with
macros/variable values. To escape $ use $$.

  MessageBox MB_OK "I'll be happy" ; this one puts a ' inside a string
  MessageBox MB_OK 'And he said to me "Hi there!"' ; this one puts a " inside a string
  MessageBox MB_OK `And he said to me "I'll be happy!"` ; this one puts both ' and "s inside a string
  MessageBox MB_OK "$\"A quote from a wise man$\" said the wise man" ; this one shows escaping of quotes

* Variables.

Allowed chaacters for variable names: [a-z][A-Z][0-9] and '_'.

** Variable definition.

To declare variable:

  Var NAME

There are exist registers (predefined variable) through them passed args for
macros/functions/plug-ins:

  $0, $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $9, $R0, $R1, $R2, $R3, $R4, $R5, $R6, $R7, $R8, $R9

To assign value to variable use:

  StrCpy $NAME STRING

To access to there value use such syntax:

  $NAME

** Language strings.

To declare multilingual string use:

  LangString NAME LANGUAGE_ID STRING

For 'LANGUAGE_ID' use '${LANG_ENGLISH}', '${LANG_RUSSIAN}', etc.

To access to there value use such syntax:

  $(NAME)

*** Standard language strings.

You can see list of such var under Contrib\Language Files\*.nlf files, which
loaded by 'LoadLanguageFile'.

To access to there value use such syntax:

  $(^NAME)

** Macros definition.

To define macro variable:

  !define NAME STRING

To access to there value use such syntax:

  ${NAME}