InstallOptionsEx plug-in

Author: deguix (talk, contrib)

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InstallOptionsEx.zip (75 KB) (DLL - Version 2.4.2 beta 2 w/ C++ Source)

InstallOptionsEx Forums Thread

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.
• 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 16 kb compressed with UPX.

Documentation is available with the plugin DLL download.

Last Version Changes

• Added TimeOut INI value name for "Settings" section. This enables the page to return after the specified time. When notifications are activated, the timer pauses until "Abort" is called on page's validation function. Also, it continues to repeat until the page is closed.
• Added ONRCLICK for TreeView controls.
• Fixed ONCLICK notification flag: Only captured single-clicks when ONDBLCLICK was not set.
• Added the missing Notify INI value name on the documentation.

TODO

Next Version

As Discussed

• None at this moment.

As Planned

• Add more INI value names to the Settings INI section.
• "Ownerdraw" style for TreeView (?).
• More types of checkboxes for TreeView controls (?).
• Make API's to work again with controls.

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).

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)