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== Links ==
 
[http://forums.winamp.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=1621363 InstallOptionsEx DLL - Version 2.4.2 beta 1 w/ C++ Source]
 
[http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?postid=1621363#post1621363 InstallOptionsEx Forums Thread (where your questions, complaints, suggestions... should go)]
 
== Description ==
 
This plugin is an extention for the original InstallOptions 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>, and <i>TreeView</i>.
*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.
*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 <i>Buttons</i> with an image or icon, <i>Checkbox</i>es with "gray" state added...
*<i>ListBox</i> controls have the multicolumn feature which makes each item to occupy less space of the control.
*<i>Height</i> and <i>Width</i> value names, possibiliting a better organization of controls rectangles.
*<i>Button</i> and <i>Link</i> controls have the old <i>DirRequest</i> and <i>FileRequest</i> controls abilities so that you can customize the control text and where the result will go of selecting a file or dir.
*All in 16 kb compressed with UPX.
 
Documentation is available with the plugin DLL download.
 
== Last Version Changes ==
 
== TODO List for Next Version ==
 
=== As Discussed ===
*Nothing 'till now.
 
=== As Planed ===
 
*Add more INI value names to the <i>Settings</i> INI section.
*Add more types of Windows default dialogs.
*"Ownerdraw" style for TreeView (?).
*More types of checkboxes for TreeView controls (?).
 
== TODO For Other Future Versions ==
 
*Custom dialogs for pages.
*Add more types of Windows default dialogs.
*Create a system for including new types of controls separatedly from this plugin. (This is NSIS TODO)
 
The rest of it I don't publish (I have my reasons).

Revision as of 18:00, 25 March 2005

Links

InstallOptionsEx DLL - Version 2.4.2 beta 1 w/ C++ Source

InstallOptionsEx Forums Thread (where your questions, complaints, suggestions... should go)

Description

This plugin is an extention for the original InstallOptions 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, and TreeView.
  • 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.
  • 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 16 kb compressed with UPX.

Documentation is available with the plugin DLL download.

Last Version Changes

TODO List for Next Version

As Discussed

  • Nothing 'till now.

As Planed

  • Add more INI value names to the Settings INI section.
  • Add more types of Windows default dialogs.
  • "Ownerdraw" style for TreeView (?).
  • More types of checkboxes for TreeView controls (?).

TODO For Other Future Versions

  • Custom dialogs for pages.
  • Add more types of Windows default dialogs.
  • Create a system for including new types of controls separatedly from this plugin. (This is NSIS TODO)

The rest of it I don't publish (I have my reasons).