rsegal
1st April 2003 23:15 UTC

Extremely large combobox
I've got a combox that needs to have a fairly large number of items (i.e. > 100). Each item is about 10 characters. I am trying to input the items directly into the ini file however I can't fit all the items on one line. Even if I could get all the items on one line this wouldn't be all that great to read. Is there a way so I can specify in the ini file each of the items to be included in the combobox.

What I want is something like the example below however I tried this and it didn't work. Is there a special character that can be used to tell NSIS that list is information is continued on the next line?

[Field 1]
Type=droplist
Text=ListText
Left=70
Right=180
Top=35
Bottom=80
ListItems=List Item A|
List Item B|
List Item C|
...

Sunjammer
2nd April 2003 07:32 UTC

As far as I am aware you cannot do what you are asking. Place all of the data for a single control on a single line with elements separated by | characters. There is nothing more you can do to make this easier to read (but then who cares, it's not meant to be read by a person, just by InstallOptions).

When you say it won't fit on a single line what do you mean? I'm not aware of a line length limit (there probably is one, I'm just trying to get more information about your problem).

rsegal
2nd April 2003 17:24 UTC

It's alright I managed to correct the problem which really isn't a problem after all. The editor I was using to list the items for the combobox had a limit of 2048 characters for a line. It didn't perform an automatic wordrap like many other editors do for some reason. After switching to go old Wordpad for editing the INI file everything worked fine.

Thanks for your help Sunjammer.