InstallOptionsEx plug-in

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InstallOptionsEx2.4.5b2a7.zip (151 KB) (DLL w/ C++ Source)

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InstallOptionsEx 2.4.5 development Forum Thread (2.4.5 beta 1 - 2.4.5 beta 2 alpha 7)

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Description

Version: 2.4.5 beta 2 alpha 7.

This plugin is an extension for the original InstallOptions plug-in you find with NSIS package. For those who want to have a more professional looking NSIS page. See a little bit of the feature list below to entertain yourself:

• More controls: Animation, ProgressBar, TrackBar, IPAddress, DateTime, MonthCalendar, UpDown, TreeView, ListView, Image (based on already existing ones) and RichText.
• Extended notification system which you can specify the types of notifications you want a control to support.
• Supports setting colors and font for most of the controls. Alignment works for some controls.
• Supports timeout, which makes the plugin to go to the validation function automatically after the specified time.
• Normal and Balloon ToolTips with color change and a halfway multiline support.
• Automatic detection of number of controls available in your INI page file.
• Supports variables as a value for any value name, so you don't need anymore to write several times into an INI file.
• Flags have been added, like of those Buttons with an image or icon, Checkboxes with "gray" state added...
• ListBox controls have the multicolumn feature which makes each item to occupy less space of the control.
• Height and Width value names, have a better organization of controls rectangles.
• Button and Link controls have the old DirRequest and FileRequest controls abilities so that you can customize the control text and where the result will go of selecting a file or dir.

Documentation is available with the plugin DLL download.

Latest Alpha Version Changes

• From now, it is an official version.
• Added: setFocus dll function: Set the focus on the specified control in parameter. It was designed to be used in your leave script functions. Prefer to use the FOCUS flag if you can.
• The compilation option USE_FOPEN_S was renamed in USE_SECURE_FUNCTIONS (in VisualStudio 2005 only)).
• Fixed: Applied IO Patch that kill some compiler warnings under Linux and mingw32.
• Fixed: Use installer's name for message boxes (IO patch #1661677).
• Size optimization: msdn now says SHGetMalloc returns the same allocator CoTaskMemFree uses and a little debugging backs this even on Windows 95.

Credits

Original IO version Copyright © 2001 Michael Bishop (locnar42)

IO DLL version 1 Copyright © 2001-2002 Nullsoft, Inc., ORTIM

IO DLL version 2 Copyright © 2003-2007 Amir Szekely (kichik), Joost Verburg, Dave Laundon (eccles)

IOEx DLL Copyright © 2004-2005 Diego Pedroso (deguix)

IOEx DLL (starting at v.2.4.5) Copyright © 2006-2007 SuperPat