Aero plug-in

[Afrow UK]

1.0.0.6 - 12th July 2011
* Fixed branding text not re-showing on DWM disable and re-enable.
* Centred branding text for classic UI.
* Nudged buttons down by 3 pixels for classic UI.

Night

Stu

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Originally Posted by Afrow UK

Night

Stu

Great

[Yathosho]

not sure if it's just me (again?), but the glow effect on the left border seems cut off.

[Afrow UK]

That's odd I don't get that. Are you using a modified UI? It uses the same left coordinate that the original branding text is which is 5 dialog units from the left according to Resource Hacker (modern.exe).

Stu

[Yathosho]

nope, using mui2. no special windows theme or alternate shell either, i tested the win7 standard theme as well. get the same when compiling Examples\makensis.nsi with added aero plugin.

[Afrow UK]

Is that the latest plug-in version? You shouldn't have any branding text on the welcome/finish pages.

Stu

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Just a side note:

With a none standard DPI setting (i.e. other than "96 dpi" aka "100%"), there is a strange border with Aero plug-in enabled.

[Yathosho]

Originally Posted by Afrow UK

Is that the latest plug-in version? You shouldn't have any branding text on the welcome/finish pages.

Stu

true, i didn't use the latest version. i recompiled and there's no branding on the welcome page. can't say if anything else changed as i'm logged in via RDP (no aero!), will do so when i get home.

[Yathosho]

the branding text is no longer cut off when using the latest version!

[isawen]

Stu, if you set a big text for the branding text you should see that it's overlapped by the Back button.

[Collector9999]

I just started experimenting with this plugin. It looks good, but I found one oddity. If a link is added to the finish page, the text color of the link changes to black with a black line below and a black block to the right.

[T.Slappy]

This is known bug - it is the same thing which Checkbox/Radiobuttons suffer too.
I use XPStyle off to remove this behaviour, but maybe Stu will know what to change in sources to remove it completely.

[Afrow UK]

MUI2? This isn't the same as checkboxes/radiobuttons. Static texts should not have this problem, although a link may do (which is a static text with added effects) but that depends on the code behind it.

Stu

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Strange. No such problem here:
http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/1...l1build76n.png

[Afrow UK]

Yeah that's why I think he might be using MUI1.

Stu

[Collector9999]

It is MUI2. I am using MUI_FINISHPAGE_LINK and MUI_FINISHPAGE_LINK_LOCATION for the finish page link.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Me too...

[Collector9999]

I just tried adding the MUI_FINISHPAGE_LINK and MUI_FINISHPAGE_LINK_LOCATION to the "Aero ModernUI.nsi" example included with the plug in and got the same results. I had the logging build of NSIS, so to be sure that it was not something odd with it, I compiled the script with the normal ANSI NSIS 2.46 and still got the same results with both my script and the example with the finish page link added. My machine is Win7 x64 Pro, if that might make any difference.

[LoRd_MuldeR]

I always use Unicode NSIS, if that matters.

[Collector9999]

I have been putting off installing Unicode NSIS. Perhaps I'll give it a try to see if it fixes it.

[Afrow UK]

I am using non Unicode NSIS and I do not have the problem (Windows 7 Professional x64). Please can you write a minimal script that reproduces the problem.

Stu

[Yathosho]

have you set custom colors for any element in your script? i had similiar problems when using a custom header background color, though i think the problem disappeared in a later version

[Collector9999]

Unicode did not help. It happens even with the included example if I add a finish page link:

!include MUI2.nsh

OutFile TestModernUI.exe
RequestExecutionLevel user

!define MUI_CUSTOMFUNCTION_GUIINIT onGUIInit
!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_WELCOME
!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_LICENSE ModernUI.nsi
!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_INSTFILES
!define MUI_FINISHPAGE_LINK "Click here to find more New Sierra Game Installers"
!define MUI_FINISHPAGE_LINK_LOCATION "http://www.sierrahelp.com/Patches-Updates/NewSierraInstallers.html"
!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_FINISH

!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE English

Function onGUIInit

Aero::Apply

FunctionEnd

Section
SectionEnd

I am not using any custom themes on my system.

[Afrow UK]

Looks fine for me .

Stu

[Collector9999]

I'm not sure what's happened to my post. How many more of my posts have to be approved before I can just post?

[Anders]

Collector9999: Which exact version of windows is this? Win7 SP0 x86? Could you create an extra label and set the color on it (and maybe transparent background) and see what happens?

Afrow: Is it possible that you are doing a black FillRect or not restoring a HDC or something like that? The problem could be in the link control also of course, a dev needs to reproduce the issue before we can board the blame train

[Collector9999]

My PC is Win7 x64 Pro SP1. I am not sure what you mean with the extra label.

[Collector9999]

OK, I figured out what you meant, but I am not sure how to set a transparent background. It also has the black at the side of the new link.

[Collector9999]

When the Aero plugins is enabled it will not let me change the color of the link. It is always black. I can change the color of an extra link, even though it also has the same black block.

[Collector9999]

I had a number of people test a build of the above script compiled with a clean installation of NSIS with only the Aero plugin added and they got the same result. So the issue is not with how my system displays it nor in any customizations of NSIS.

[Collector9999]

Sorry for the multiple posts, but I have solved the problem. I got the plugin from the Wiki but I had an earlier build. Updating it to the latest fixed it.

[voyteckst]

Hi. Is it intended to work also with UMUI?
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/94/umuiaero.jpg/

[Afrow UK]

I have not tested it with UMUI nor do I use it so no.

Stu

[voyteckst]

Have You seen screenshot? IS it somehow fixable or not?

If not, is that easy to move from UMUI to MUI2?

[Afrow UK]

Yes I saw the screenshot. The plug-in only supports the official MUI, MUI2 and classic UIs, which do not use any skinning. It would not be possible to get UMUI to work with aero because of the skinning. It should be fairly easy to convert the script to MUI2; just look at the MUI2 example scripts.

Stu

[voyteckst]

Originally Posted by Afrow UK

Yes I saw the screenshot. The plug-in only supports the official MUI, MUI2 and classic UIs, which do not use any skinning. It would not be possible to get UMUI to work with aero because of the skinning. It should be fairly easy to convert the script to MUI2; just look at the MUI2 example scripts.

Stu

Ok thanks!

[Afrow UK]

New version:

1.0.0.7 - 26th April 2012
* Implemented a new button drawing method to fix white text flicker (/btnold switch reverts to the old method).
* Now disables Aero if the theme data cannot be loaded on theme change.

Explanations of the old and new button drawing methods and their pros and cons are in the readme.

Stu

[GaNi]

Afrow,

With this new plugin, the option /nobranding makes the UI draw no button at all. Alternatively using /nobranding /btnold uses older library to draw I guess.

[GaNi]

Originally Posted by GaNi

Afrow,

With this new plugin, the option /nobranding makes the UI draw no button at all. Alternatively using /nobranding /btnold uses older library to draw I guess.

Edit: Installer crashes

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Bad news for people that like the Aero plug-in:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/...-in-windows-8/

It seems that Microsoft currently tires to cripple the "classical" Desktop as much as possible in order to make "Metro" appear less annoying/limited. The result will be an OS that has a "Touchscreen" interface, which is completely unusable and infeasible for anything but Tablet computers, combined with a totally crippled Desktop, which isn't more than a emergency fall-back feature. I would be fine to consider Windows 8 a pure Tablet-OS, but my biggest fear is that the epic fail of Windows 8 that we'll see on the Desktop market (we'll see how well it goes on the "Mobile" market) will give a great boost to Mac OS X. Might also be chance for Linux to gain some popularity though...