Afrow UK
30th April 2003 19:17 UTC

IO problem
I've noticed something ugly under Windows 98 while using IO.
If I am writing to the IO ini file just before the IO page loads, in this case - to the listitems for a droplist; then when the page loads, the droplists don't contain anything visual. They appear with the small black square beneath it on mouse-click (which happens when there are no listitems present,) but if I press the down arrow, then the other options I wrote to the listitems actually appear.
I will use Sleep to pause before the IO page appears, and I'll see if that fixes it.

This is not a problem on my other PC running WinXP-Pro

-Stu

Joost Verburg
30th April 2003 19:49 UTC

Try to use FlushINI.

kichik
1st May 2003 10:32 UTC

InstallOptions doesn't read the INI file again after initialization. This is not a problem with timing if when you press the down arrow the items show. Did you set the right height for the droplist?

virtlink
1st May 2003 20:37 UTC

I think that this is the ZOrder problem again.
The droplist does actually pop out, but behind the component selection box.

Joost Verburg
1st May 2003 22:26 UTC

Make sure to set the right bottom position for the control.

Afrow UK
2nd May 2003 16:21 UTC

If it works on WinXP-Pro, then how can I have the bottom value wrong.
This is the first time I've used DropLists on my Win98SE machine, so I will try out my other programs which also have DropLists on my Win98SE machine, and see if the problem is still happening.

I'd do it now, but my bro is on the WinXP-Pro machine making Dance music with e-Jay Dance 4! :)

How would I use or do FlushINI?

-Stu

kichik
2nd May 2003 16:44 UTC

Don't use FlushINI, you don't need it. Windows XP automatically sizes the drop list to a size that will show all items in the list (or the maximum size which will show at least some and the others with a scroll bar). Windows 9x doesn't do this, it expects you to size the drop list to a suffcient size that will show all of the items. That's why the InstallOptions readme says:

Note: For combobox or droplist, the "bottom" value is not used in the same way.
In this case, the bottom value is the maximum size of the window when the pop-up list is being displayed. All other times, the combobox is automatically sized to be one element tall. If you have trouble where you can not see the combobox drop-down, then check the bottom value and ensure it is large enough.

Afrow UK
2nd May 2003 20:37 UTC

The tops of the droplists on my IO page are as follows:

1.
Top=21

2.
Top=35

3.
Top=49

What would you recommend I use as the bottom for these droplists?
Also, is there any reference in the readme's to the size of the nsis default modern dialog?

Edit: ARGH!! I just put the Bottom value to 1000 for each one, and that seems to be fine!
Sorry for being so darn stupid- I must read things over at least 10 times now :/

-Stu

kichik
2nd May 2003 20:40 UTC

Use top + at least 50.

There is no reference, but you can open modern.exe in Resource Hacker and find out.