NSIS Dialog Designer

[nicorac]

This seems a little OT.
NSISDialogDesigner could only help you to draw and place buttons on the dialog.
After that, the code behind these buttons is all about you...

Take a look here on how to start an embedded EXE: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=315997

[nicorac]

Version 0.9.16 released

v.0.9.16 - 2012-04-20
FIX: SelectedItem property of ListBox, ComboBox and DropList controls now accepts any value (like $abc).

[nicorac]

New version 1.1 released

New version 1.1 released:

• NEW: Improved support for DialogIDs other than the default one (1018). User can now select 1044 (Welcome & Finish pages) and designer will change dialog size accordingly.
• NEW: Added RichText control support. It does not support RTF text loading, it must be customized by the user (see here: http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=288129).

PS: sorry, I missed to announce the release of version 1.0.
Detailed version history could be found here:

http://coolsoft.altervista.org/nsisdialogdesigner#versionhistory

NSISDialogDesigner can be downloaded here:

http://coolsoft.altervista.org/nsisdialogdesigner

[nicorac]

New version 1.1.1 released

v.1.1.1 - 2012-10-01

• FIX: Fixed generated script for FileRequest control (wrong test on returned string).

NSISDialogDesigner can be downloaded here:

http://coolsoft.altervista.org/nsisdialogdesigner

[TheConultant]

Missing tutorial

Hello @all.
I'm missing a tutorial from beginners to experts, or an integrated CHM help file.
I'm using Eclispe with the nsis plugin to develop installer.
Now I'm having the problem to marry the nsis dialog designer page varibles with my NSIS scripts.
The target is simple. A simple dialog page with 3 text fields an one password field ('Computername', 'Servername', 'Loginname' and 'Password') shall be written into an ini file.
For test reasons it is welcome to display the input in a message box. Ho do I using the dialog desinger pages in my main nsis scripts?

Are there known nsis dialog desinger tutorials available, or mabye can anybody help me?

Best regards
Martin

[MSG]

There's an excellent tutorial in the nsDialogs readme: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/nsDialogs/Readme.html

You can use the NSIS Dialog Designer for generating the layout-specific code, then use that in your nsDialogs page functions. (Note: When using nsDialogs, make sure you use MUI2, not MUI.)

[nicorac]

Version 1.1.2 released

v.1.1.2 - 2013-01-11

• FIX: Removed non-working color properties on ComboBox, CheckBox and RadioButton.
  See here for workarounds:
  ComboBox: http://forums.winamp.com/showpost.php?p=2174815
  CheckBox: http://forums.winamp.com/showpost.php?p=2354612
  RadioButton: http://forums.winamp.com/showpost.php?p=1974758
• FIX: Multiline TextBox coordinates were always in pixels
• FIX: TextBox creation script styles when Multiline=True

New version is available here:

http://coolsoft.altervista.org/nsisdialogdesigner

[shadowpoa]

Little problem with CoordinateSystem

Hi,

I noticed that when inserting a DirRequest control two controls are created, like the text below, so far so good.

  ; === DirRequest1_Txt (type: Text) ===
  ${NSD_CreateText} 26u 69u 110u 11u ""
  Pop $hCtl_JANELA_DirRequest1_Txt
  
  ; === DirRequest1_Btn (type: Button) ===
  ${NSD_CreateButton} 138u 68u 20u 14u "..."
  Pop $hCtl_JANELA_DirRequest1_Btn 

But, when changing CoordinateSystem, it changes at left panel (Attachment) but not on the script itself.

I solved with changing the dialog's CoordinateSystem to PPPP with inherit at the control, but think not the best choice, could you take a look on this behavior?

Many thanks!

[nicorac]

New version released

could you take a look on this behavior?

I just released an updated version that fixes the bug you reported, both on DirRequest and on FileRequest controls.

code:
v.1.1.3 - 2013-12-16

FIX: Fixed generated script for DirRequest and FileRequest controls, not respecting CoordinateSystem.

Latest version can be found here: http://coolsoft.altervista.org/nsisdialogdesigner

Thanks for your feedback.
Claudio

[shadowpoa]

Control Positioning problem

Hi, me again...

Just for start, I´d like to say that this is the best editor for NSDialogs available.

So lets to the problem.

I´ve playing with some dialogs, and have noticed that after set size to 1044 and placed some controls, hitting test compiling and then the compiled dialog pops, they're different!!

So, I done some testing, and saw that this behavior occurs when using DLU to size and place controls (default) .

I got some time reading... and found this link...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/02/17/74811.aspx

and this:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32/fT3gXGbwISc

So, I adapted the sample code from here http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Get_text_dimensions to convert pixels units to dlu and voilá, the size and positions are equal.

Hope you can fix it, if more tests needed please ask.

[nicorac]

Thanks for your feedback

...after set size to 1044 and placed some controls, hitting test compiling and then the compiled dialog pops, they're different

It turned out that the bug exists for all dialog sizes.
Since 1044 is bigger than the others, the bad behavior is much more evident here.

Thanks to your feedback (and the samples you provided) I found 2 bugs:

1. DialogUnits were calculated using bad coefficients, because I was using the wrong font as reference.
2. DialogUnits (and also Percentage) were emitted as integers (no decimals) to NSIS generated script; this adds another error to the one already present due to point 1)

Both the errors will be fixed into version 1.2.0, available in a few minutes (stay tuned ).

I also added a new feature: a new "All" subproperty into CoordinateSystem controls property, that allows user to change X,Y,Width,Height subproperties together in a shot.

Thanks again for your detailed feedback.

Cheers

[nicorac]

New version 1.2.0 released

...after set size to 1044 and placed some controls, hitting test compiling and then the compiled dialog pops, they're different

I just released an updated version that fixes the bug you reported and adds some new features:

v.1.2.0 - 2014-07-11

• NEW: CoordinateSystem conversions are now done with higher precision.
  (thanks to shadowpoa for feedback: http://forums.winamp.com/showpost.php?p=3001224)
• NEW: Control sizes are now written with up to 2 decimals in NSIS generated script.
• NEW: Added a new "All" subproperty to controls CoordinateSystem property;
  it can be used to change X,Y,Width,Height subproperties all together.
• FIX: Wrong vertical CoordinateSystem conversion "Pixel --> DialogUnits".

Latest version can be found here: http://coolsoft.altervista.org/nsisdialogdesigner

Thanks for your feedback.
Claudio

[shadowpoa]

Wow! this was fast... testing here...
billion thanks

[nicorac]

Wow! this was fast... testing here...
billion thanks

Your feedback was really detailed, making it easier to find and fix...

[Collector9999]

Is the source available?