Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1313 01/02/2016

Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1313 Two words about the future scripting engine. It should work in two different moments: 1) the first slot represents the moment just after the package download and before the "installation" (we know that SPS for real installs nothing...) 2) the second slot represents the moment after the "installation" and before the linkage to SyMenu. During the first slot I'm thinking to only add commands to unpack the downloaded package. So you can write something like this: 7z {package} rar {package} zip {package} innoSetup {package} msi {package} (I know it doesn't exist anymore but it will do) You can apply the unpacker more than once but you have no other command available. During the second slot you have the app already copied in the target folder so here you need something more complex. I'm thinking to limit the commands effect to the app root folder and any subfolders for security reasons. So you'll have a placeholder like {app} to refer to the root folder that must always appear. You are not allowed to go under the {app} folder. Inside this folder you have a large availability of commands. I'm thinking to: create dir md {app}\bin\newFolder rename dir ren {app}\ben\newFolder {app}\ben\oldFolder remove empty dir rd {app}\bin\oldFolder move/rename file move {app}\whatever.exe {app}\whateverRenamed.exe move {app}\whatever.exe {app}\bin\whateverRenamed.exe copy/rename file copy {app}\whatever.exe {app}\folder\whateverRenamed.exe delete file del {app}\whatever.exe create empty text file echo. > {app}\config.ini create text file with values inside echo.first value=1 >{app}\config.ini append values to a text file echo.second value=2 >>{app}\config.ini As you've surely observed this is a Windows command subsets. So it is easy to imagine that I'll use the original Windows command to execute the custom instruction after the path conversion. Anyway even if the commands is executed by the Windows shell I'm thinking to forbid the command switches, always for security reasons. So you can only write the pure commands without parameters. It's only a draft but I'm really interested in you points of view. Let me know.

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