InstallOptionsEx plug-in

Author: deguix (talk, contrib)

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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 entertain 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, 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.
• 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)