View source for BattleTorrent plug-ins

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== Links ==
Source + binaries:

[[Image:Zip.gif]] [http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/battletorrent/BattleTorrent-0.0.zip?download BattleTorrent-0.0.zip] (4.03 MB)

== Description ==
Combine NSISdl and the [http://homepage.hispeed.ch/py430/python/index.html NSIS Python Plugin], and you get an NSIS installer that is capable of downloading content via BitTorrent. This was initially developed by [http://www.imvu.com IMVU], and released as part of the BattleTorrent project.

If you'd like to see an example in action, you can download it [http://www.imvu.com here]. 

Because BitTorrent only downloads only the chunks of files that have changed, it makes a great client updater too. And because it's peer-to-peer, it uses a lot less bandwidth than just a regular HTTP downloader.

== Example Usage ==
<highlight-nsis>
  ; $R0 contains the CMDLINE plus the torrent URL
  StrCpy $R0 "$CMDLINE http://download.imvu.com/catalog/download/dist.torrent"
  ; $R1 contains the target folder
  StrCpy $R1 "$INSTDIR"
  NSISdl::execFile "$INSTDIR\bt\btdownloadnsis.py"
  IfErrors errortag 
  Pop $R2
  StrCmp $R2 "error" errortag noerrortag
  errortag:
  Abort
  noerrortag:
</highlight-nsis>

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