Matthias_H
5th May 2004 22:23 UTC

Using an External License Text - Possible?
Hi!

I was wondering whether it is possible to easily make NSIS load and show the license/readme blah (the stuff the user has to accept before installing) from an external file during runtime.

Thank you
/Matthias

(To those who read this posting for the 2nd time: sorry for the re-post. At least it's got the right subject now...)

Joost Verburg
5th May 2004 22:33 UTC

You can send a WM_SETTEXT message.

Matthias_H
5th May 2004 22:49 UTC

Hi Joost,

and thank you for your quick response. Sounds plausible, yet I am quite unexperienced with win32 API stuff of any kind. Intuitively (instinct supported by your hint), I'd first try to find the HWND handle of the license text box (how?), then send a WM_SETTEXT message to it, containing the pointer to my null-terminated string. Right?

Regards
/Matthias

Joost Verburg
6th May 2004 14:19 UTC

See the users manual for information about SendMessage. To send a string param, put STR: before the parameter, for example: "STR:Some string".

You can use GetDlgItem to get the window handle of the textbox, the control ID is 1000 (note it's on the inner window).