Multiple License Pages

cpriest
27th April 2003 04:29 UTC

Multiple License Pages
Hello, I'm trying to create an installation with multiple license pages, I can get the license page to show twice, but not with different license files.

Is there any way I can do this? I'm fairly new to this package, but it looks awsomely powerful..

Thanks,

-Clint

Joel
27th April 2003 04:56 UTC

I don't know .... :weird:
[Old UI]
Try the order of pages:


Page ...
Page license
Page ...
Page ...
Page license

With [Modern UI]


!define MUI_CUSTOMPAGECOMMANDS
...
!insertmacro MUI_PAGECOMMAND_WELCOME
!insertmacro MUI_PAGECOMMAND_LICENSE
!insertmacro MUI_PAGECOMMAND_COMPONENTS
!insertmacro MUI_PAGECOMMAND_DIRECTORY
!insertmacro MUI_PAGECOMMAND_INSTFILES
!insertmacro MUI_PAGECOMMAND_LICENSE
!insertmacro MUI_PAGECOMMAND_FINISH

cpriest
27th April 2003 06:39 UTC

How can I get the two license pages to show a different license file?

Joel
27th April 2003 15:42 UTC

Didn't you want the same license file?
Oh... well
Now, that's impossible in the current CVS.
But there's a past post with a fixed UI that might help you:
http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....0&pagenumber=2

kichik
27th April 2003 17:32 UTC

It's not entirely impossible, just a bit hard. You can create two license Pages (in one of the ways Lobo Lunar mentioned) and then on the show function of one of them use SendMessage (hwnd) ${WM_SETTEXT} 0 "STR:Another license$\r$\nRead this...". You can't use RTFs with this, and the text size is limited to 1024 unless you've recompiled NSIS with a larger NSIS_MAX_STRLEN.

To find the HWND of the license box use GetDlgItem and FindWindow. For example:


FindWindow $0 "#32770" "" $HWNDPARENT

GetDlgItem$0 1024 

>

Replace 1024 with the license box control id and you'll get it's HWND.

WM_SETTEXT is defined in WinMessages.nsh (!include WinMessages.nsh).

cpriest
27th April 2003 21:07 UTC

I needed it to deal with more than 1024 bytes of data, so I wrote a plugin to do it, and I've uploaded that plugin to the archive...

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/archive/...instances=0,32

dkt44_56
27th April 2003 21:12 UTC

Lame dude, Lame. :(

Joel
27th April 2003 21:17 UTC

What's lame dkt44_56 ? :weird:

[edit]
Sounds good the plugin :up:
Do you think will support old versions of Nsis
or just the current CVS and above.
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[edit]
dkt44_56 was Banned because he/she was flaming at the Forums.
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cpriest
27th April 2003 21:32 UTC

What are the major differences to make it backward compatible?

I've just been poking around to get it to work right, not being able to find much documentation on how to do this, and none using MFC.

Joel
27th April 2003 21:41 UTC

Not for me dude.
For those users that are still using old versions like
Nsis v1.98.

Joost Verburg
27th April 2003 22:23 UTC

NSIS 1.98 doesn't even have the page system or the easy plugin system.

kichik
27th April 2003 23:31 UTC

As the paging system, especially the custom pages code is changing a lot there isn't any documentation for it yet. There aren't any GoBack(), GoPrev(), or GoCancel() functions because NSIS handles that, you just need to know to destroy your dialog and return the control to NSIS when the NSIS window gets WM_NOTIFY_OUTER_NEXT. StartMenu is a fairly simple example to that.

The differences between 1.98 and NSIS 2 pages system are quite numerous. I wouldn't waste my time porting it backwards.

As for your plug-in specifically, it's always good to see another plug-in :)
Too bad it uses MFC though... You'll need to include MFC distribution files and install them if needed just to run the installer.