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'''Version:''' 2.4.2 beta 4. | '''Version:''' 2.4.2 beta 4. | ||
This plugin is an | This plugin is an extension for the original [[InstallOptions]] plugin 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 entertrain yourself: | ||
*More controls: <i>Animation</i>, <i>ProgressBar</i>, <i>TrackBar</i>, <i>IPAddress</i>, <i>DateTime</i>, <i>MonthCalendar</i>, <i>UpDown</i>, <i>TreeView</i> and <i>ListView</i>. | *More controls: <i>Animation</i>, <i>ProgressBar</i>, <i>TrackBar</i>, <i>IPAddress</i>, <i>DateTime</i>, <i>MonthCalendar</i>, <i>UpDown</i>, <i>TreeView</i> and <i>ListView</i>. |
Revision as of 11:50, 14 September 2005
Author: deguix (talk, contrib) |
Links
InstallOptionsEx.zip (90 KB) (DLL w/ C++ Source)
InstallOptionsEx Forums Thread
Description
Version: 2.4.2 beta 4.
This plugin is an extension for the original InstallOptions plugin 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 entertrain yourself:
- More controls: Animation, ProgressBar, TrackBar, IPAddress, DateTime, MonthCalendar, UpDown, TreeView and ListView.
- 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, possibiliting 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.
- All in 20 KB compressed with UPX.
Documentation is available with the plugin DLL download.
Last Beta Version Changes
- Added MUnit value name for Settings section and NotifyCursor for Field # section.
- Re-implemented NumFields from original InstallOptions for compatibility reasons.
- Added ListView and TreeView controls support for TxtColor and BgColor values.
- Added EDITLABELS flag for TreeView and ListView controls and MULTISELECT for ListView controls (made single selection default in this case).
- Fixed empty item names for TreeView and ListView controls.
- Fixed the return of State and ListItems INI values for Link and Button controls with COLORREQUEST flag.
- Fixed an interminable loop when UpDown controls had a buddy control that had the ONTEXTCHANGE or ONTEXTUPDATE notification flags.
- Fixed the range of numbers for UpDown controls. Maximum value for MaxLen and MinLen is 2147483646 and the minimum is -2147483646. Also the default values for the two value names are 2147483646 and -2147483646, respectively.
TODO
Next Version
As Discussed
- add "\|" escape character.
- add "Tab" controls. (?)
As Planned
- GIF, JPG, WML support.
Other Future Versions Before Major Release
- Most of the types of controls available for Windows.
- Support for multiple dialogs at the same time.
- Custom dialogs for pages.
- Create a system for including new types of controls separately from this plugin. (This is NSIS TODO)
Post Major Release
- Sorting algorithms for "ListItems" based controls (this should be a separate plugin).
- Dragging of items.
- Menus.
- PNG support.
The rest of it I don't publish (I have my reasons).
Credits
Original IO version Copyright © 2001 Michael Bishop (locnar42)
IO DLL version 1 Copyright © 2001-2002 Nullsoft, Inc., ORTIM (nandhp)
IO DLL version 2 Copyright © 2003-2005 Amir Szekely (kichik), Joost Verburg, Dave Laundon (eccles)
IOEx DLL (changed from original IO 2) Copyright © 2004-2005 Diego Pedroso (deguix)