Registered: Jun 2001
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Okay, I just ran into a bit of a stumbling block upgrading to the latest-and-greatest NSIS; using InstallOptionsEx has a drop-in no longer works when using MUI. I can work around it by using an older MUI header file, but I realize that eventually I'll have to move even this mammoth script over to nsDialogs.

However, that presents the next stumbling block.. I tried setting a JPG as a bitmap's image in the past and just again now and... I don't get any image. If I specify a BMP, things are fine.
What am I missing? Is there any way - no matter how contrived - to use a JPG directly for an nsDialogs bitmap control?

We're using JPEG files not just within the installer to cut down on size, but also for downloaded content.

I did think this was covered in the forums before, but I couldn't find anything among the noise in a search for the two rather common keywords.

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Registered: Oct 2001
From: Jerusalem, Israel

You could probably replace the LoadImage call in nsDialogs.nsh with a call to OleLoadPicturePath and then get the image handle from the interface this function returns.

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Registered: Jun 2001
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hehe.. well the "you" part in there is putting a lot of (misplaced) confidence in me - but I'll have a peek through MSDN and the System docs

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Registered: Feb 2004
From: Moscow, Russia

This may help http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Embedded_Banner
You can also search for jpeg on NSIS main page http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Main_Page

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Registered: Jun 2001
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yeah, unfortunately the various banner/etc. plugins all have their sets of limitations.. e.g.
- not within a dialog
- fixed place within a dialog
- not clickable

All I really need is basically what kichik wrote... which I *think* I can figure out... except I'm stuck (at least) at...

code:
riid (in parameter) Reference to the identifier of the interface describing the type of interface pointer to return in ppvRet.

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Registered: Jun 2002
From: N/A

IID_IPicture is a guid, {7BF80980-BF32-101A-8BBB-00AA00300CAB} i think, so:

g "{7BF80980-BF32-101A-8BBB-00AA00300CAB}", and the pointer to the COM object param should look something like: *i .r0

Remember when working with COM objects, you need to figure out the correct offset in the vtable when calling methods on COM objects

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Registered: Jun 2002
From: N/A

see http://source.winehq.org/source/inc...tdole2.idl#L303 ...and remember, 0,1 and 2 are IUnknown, so the first method in IPicture is 3 (The system.dll readme has example code for calling COM objects)

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Registered: Jun 2001
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whhooooo... blimey. Nope, in way over my head - will give it another stab after the weekend
( getting an error 128 from the output of the 'e' option... of course finding the user-friendly message for code 128 is another circle of hell altogether )

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Registered: Jun 2002
From: N/A

128=ERROR_WAIT_NO_CHILDREN and that makes no sense, maybe you should post some of your code

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Registered: Oct 2001
From: Jerusalem, Israel

You can use err.exe to get information on pretty much every error code in Windows.

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Registered: Jun 2002
From: N/A

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You can use err.exe to get information on pretty much every error code in Windows.

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Registered: Jun 2001
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got off the vpn, but if I recall correctly - and yes, I know it's utterly wrong... even if I'm remembering and piecing this together right...

code:

System::Call 'oleaut32::OleLoadPicturePath("path to bmp file", , , ,g "long guid thing", *i .r0) i.r1 ? e'

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Registered: Jun 2002
From: N/A

you need the types for every param, t for text (or w for wide strings) and i for DWORD/pointers

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Registered: Jun 2001
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cool, thanks - I'll review and try again monday
I guess that means I have to explicitly use 'n' for null (instead of just leaving the parameter blank) as well

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Registered: Jun 2002
From: N/A

no, you can do "i,i,i" without specifying the actual value, or "i0,i0,i0" to show intent

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Registered: Jun 2001
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alright, just poking at this offline a bit more...

I *think* I've got the picture interface bit working, then...

code:

System::Call 'oleaut32::OleLoadPicturePath(w "<path>", i 0, i 0, i 0, g "{7BF80980-BF32-101A-8BBB-00AA00300CAB}", *i .r0) i .r1 ? e'

It returns a pointer/reference/thing to the interface, the result is zero (which I think means 'ok') and no error code is returned (well, also zero).

So now would come the time to get some data out of that interface. Instead of jumping straight into the deep that is the image handle, I figured I'd get the width of the bitmap first.

However, I then of course get stuck again

code:

System::Call '$0->6(i .r0) i .r1 ? e'

code:

System::Call '$0->6(i .r3) i .r1 ? e' ; 6 = getWidth
Pop $2
; [$3][$1][$2] = [0][-2147467261][80]

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Registered: Jun 2002
From: N/A

the argument is a pointer to a OLE_XSIZE_HIMETRIC (whatever that is, lets hope its 4 bytes) so:

System::Call '$0->6(*i.r3)i.r1'

also, you can't use ?e with COM, you must check the return value, 0 = ok (in most cases, could be 1 (S_FALSE) also, negative numbers are errors, when you see them in the output from err.exe, they are the codes starting with S_ or E_ )

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Registered: Jun 2002
From: N/A

code:
Function pre
nsDialogs::Create 1018
Pop $0
${NSD_CreateBitmap} 0 0 100% 100% ""
pop $9

!define IID_IPicture {7BF80980-BF32-101A-8BBB-00AA00300CAB}
!define ImagePath "$PICTURES\BuddyJesus.jpg"
var /GLOBAL pIPicture1 ;lets save it in a var so some other code does not overwrite it (I'm assuming you have a complicated page with lots of code)
System::Call 'oleaut32::OleLoadPicturePath(w "${ImagePath}", i 0, i 0, i 0, g "${IID_IPicture}", *i .r0)i.r1'
${If} $1 == 0
	StrCpy $pIPicture1 $0 ;save pointer for later, we can't release it now because the image handle needs to stay valid
	System::Call "$0->3(*i.r0)i.r1" ;IPicture->get_Handle
	;might want to check $1 here before setting image
	SendMessage $9 ${STM_SETIMAGE} ${IMAGE_BITMAP} $0
${EndIf}

nsDialogs::Show
${IfThen} $pIPicture1 <> 0 ${|} System::Call "$pIPicture1->2()"  ${|} ;Release

FunctionEnd

page custom pre

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Registered: Jun 2001
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Thanks!

Nope - don't think I would've gotten that far on monday - maybe on wednesday. I did get to the 'oh, dur, it's not a number' point *pats self on back*. I'll be going through your changes and try to grok it.. gotta get a handle on the belly of this (powerful) beast.

Thanks again!

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Registered: Jun 2001
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Alright - spent some time sunday to turn it into a header file, it's in the wiki (along with a new nsDialogs category), stuck it in the production script and voila... works beautifully - thanks again!

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Registered: Oct 2001
From: Jerusalem, Israel

Thanks for creating the nsDialogs category. It was really long due. All those other examples are really useful too.

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Registered: Jun 2001
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quote:

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Originally posted by kichik
Thanks for creating the nsDialogs category. It was really long due. All those other examples are really useful too.

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