Registered: May 2005
From: Hawera, New Zealand

Introducing my new plugin. It loads a text file into a static buffer, then can set that text into a text or label control that has a HWND. I have already made a wiki page, the link is below.

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/CustomLicense_plug-in

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Registered: May 2005
From: Hawera, New Zealand

Found out last week I have 3 weeks holiday, not 2 . So now I have released a new version. This loads the contents of the file into a dynamically created
buffer. Max file size 305 666 bytes (298KB). See the wiki page above.

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Registered: Jan 2003
From: an Igloo

Why not use EM_STREAMIN and void that malloc and free stuff

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Registered: May 2005
From: Hawera, New Zealand

I will take a look at it. I used the first method I found which was malloc and free, because that what the system plugin uses.

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Registered: Mar 2006
From: France

Very Good.

I use an other technique:
I use the file open/write/close function to append the ini file with a large text.

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Registered: Jan 2003
From: an Igloo

Well... I saw your source code. Is nice and clean, but I found some things that you might want to check:

PHP:

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FileHandle = CreateFile(FileName, GENERIC_READ, 0, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL);
if (!FileHandle) ...


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PHP:

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TempVar == "/UNLOAD"


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I don't think that's possible, you loose data and always will be true , maybe lstrcmp.

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Registered: May 2005
From: Hawera, New Zealand

Yeah, I will change it to say:
if (!FileHandle || FileHandle == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)

Don't know about the 'Temp == "/UNLOAD"' expression, but it seems to work just fine in my tests.

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Registered: May 2005
From: Hawera, New Zealand

I have modified the plugin again, and now it has just one function called 'LoadFile'. Usage:

CustomLicense::LoadFile "C:\path\filetoload.txt" "hwndofcontrol"

The first parameter is obvious, the second is the hwnd of the control to load the text into. Example:

code:

Function Pre
  installoptions::init "$PLUGINSDIR\inipage.ini"
  Pop $0
  ; See the installoptions readme for info on how 
  ; to get the field number.
  ; Put the code between here...
  ;FindWindow $0 "#32770" "" $HWNDPARENT
  GetDlgItem $0 $0 1201
  CustomLicense::LoadFile "$PLUGINSDIR\license.txt" "$0"
  Pop $0
  StrCmp $0 0 0 next
    MessageBox MB_OK "Error with CustomLicense plug-in."
next:
  ; ...and here in the show function if you want to 
  ; use this plugin with standard nsis pages.
  installoptions::show
FunctionEnd

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Registered: Nov 2002
From: Shropshire, England

Shouldn't:
installoptions::init
Be:
InstallOptions:InitDialog

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Registered: May 2005
From: Hawera, New Zealand

True. I just have used installoptions passively with MUI and ISUI. Updated version is out. Go to the wiki page above to download.

[edit] fixed typo [/edit]

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Registered: Feb 2004
From: Moscow, Russia

Your dll still depends on msvcrt.dll. You can easy change malloc-free to kernel.dll GloballAlloc-GlobalFree (Requires Windows 95 or later).

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Registered: May 2005
From: Hawera, New Zealand

I suppose that is an innocent change to make. I will change it tonight. New version out tomorrow.

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Registered: May 2005
From: Hawera, New Zealand

Well, I shouldn't get ahead of myself. I now have a small problem. There are now four weird characters at the end of the string after the text has been set in the control. If I take one byte off the number of bytes to read, it gets rid of the weird characters and chops off one byte off the string (a fullstop in my case).

One workaround is to put an extra character at the end of the license file (eg a fullstop), but I don't want to have to tell users to do this before using my plugin. Any ideas?

[edit] I could manually add a terminating NULL character to the string. Would that work?[/edit]

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Registered: Nov 2002
From: Shropshire, England

Yep, always make sure you put one on yourself: \0
I missed this in early versions of my array plugin and it caused a few issues.

Edit: Or make sure that you allocate an extra byte to allow for the null character on the end.

-Stu

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Registered: May 2005
From: Hawera, New Zealand

OK, will do. New version due out on Monday (really).

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Registered: Feb 2004
From: Moscow, Russia

The only comment in the script sample I wrote long ago is about terminating zero http://nsis.sourceforge.net/External_License_file

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Registered: May 2005
From: Hawera, New Zealand

Surprisingly, that example is almost exactly the same as the internals of my plugin .

There is a new version out today. In the last version, I forgot to free the allocated memory, which is now fixed. Now uses GlobalAlloc and GlobalFree for memory allocation.

My initial test to see how big a file I can load went very well. I managed to load a 483KB file with no errors on the first go . Please tell me how big a file you have managed to load with this plugin without a crash (this is a good way to test my plugin).

When I was going to add the terminating zero, I relised I was not allocating enough memory for the whole file. I was always truncating the terminating zero, thus getting weird characters and some crashes from large files. Now I am allocating enough memory for the file and the terminating zero.

Go to wiki to download (probably the last version for a while).

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Registered: Jan 2008
From: Sherwood, OR

It appears that if the file path argument is >= 64 characters then the function does not work. Initial debugging of DLL seemed to show that the file argument was in fact getting passed in and parsed (the correct file was opened and read) but perhaps return from DLL is failing?

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Registered: Jan 2008
From: Sherwood, OR

Well, it's quite obvious that the stack variables are only allocated 64 bytes in the DLL. This length is too short if the file passed in is in the $PLUGINSDIR. I will post a DLL with larger buffer unless JasonFriday13 wants to.

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Registered: Nov 2002
From: Shropshire, England

You are given the buffer length as one of the NSIS plug-in function arguments which you can use to allocate memory with LocalAlloc or GlobalAlloc.

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