Custom UI Questions

[Yathosho]

i've been thinking about building my own ui for a while now, but there are a couple of things i still don't get.

1. (not exactly nsis relatated) what units are used for width and height of a control in the resource file? i'm not at my home computer now, but i remember resizing a bitmap to 74x74 and that turned out to be 300x300 pixels - though i'm not sure if it even turned out to be a square!

2. how can i add a place holder for an image and manipulate it in my script? i was hoping that MUI (header image!) would give me some clues, but so far i wasn't successful

thx

[Animaether]

1. the units depend on a lot of things.. from the user's DPI settings to the font (size) you specify in NSIS

2. wouldn't ${NSD_CreateBitmap} do? ${NSD_CreateButton} if you want a visible placeholder (well, I use the Button..could use anything that shows the rect of the control, really).

[Yathosho]

Originally Posted by Animaether

2. wouldn't ${NSD_CreateBitmap} do? ${NSD_CreateButton} if you want a visible placeholder (well, I use the Button..could use anything that shows the rect of the control, really).

well, the control wouldn't be available on instfiles or i probably have more working adjusting a progressbar-plugin for every script i'm using

i was hoping it could be done using nsis code, but if mui depends on more than that, i will stay away from my idea. maybe using the reshacker commandline to add or switch an image is the easier solution. or modifying mui itself.

[Animaether]

yeah, that is correct - you'd be best off using ResHacker if you want it to be available on the InstFiles page

[Yathosho]

just dug a bit deeper, seems i will go for a solution using SetBrandingImage (nice one, didn't know about this cmd)