Joel
15th May 2004 14:31 UTC

ToolTips plugin: How usefull?
How usefull will be a plugin that will allow to display Tooltips in some controls of the Installer's dialog?

VegetaSan
15th May 2004 22:37 UTC

very usefull .. and very cool.... !!!!

Joel
16th May 2004 14:35 UTC

In progress :)

Joel
18th May 2004 23:35 UTC

See first version of it.
Compile the example.


Comments?

deguix
19th May 2004 03:03 UTC

Hmmm... Great, it worked very well with Win XP!

Keep up with the good work!

:up: :up:

Joel
19th May 2004 23:56 UTC

For the Modern tooltip will need IE 5 or Windows 98.

Any luck in Win9x and Win2k users?

pengyou
20th May 2004 00:08 UTC

Both types of tooltip appeared on my Win98SE system

Joel
20th May 2004 14:36 UTC

Thanks!

I'll do final fixes, than load-it up in the web archive
:)

Yathosho
6th June 2004 13:57 UTC

does this also work for IO pages?

Joel
6th June 2004 14:35 UTC

Yes, you'll just get the HWND of the control.

Yathosho
6th June 2004 14:57 UTC

is there a tool, which shows me the HWND of my controls (onmouseover)?

Joel
6th June 2004 17:35 UTC

Don't need to, in your show function of the custom page, use as the documentation of InstallOptions:

GetDlgItem (output var) (hwnd of the custom dialog) (1200 + Field number - 1)

Yathosho
20th June 2004 18:34 UTC

how do i get the hwnd of the custom page then? :)

Joel
20th June 2004 19:07 UTC

Function FunctionName ;FunctionName defined with Page command

  ;Display the Install Options dialog

  Push $R0
  Push $R1
  Push $R2

    InstallOptions::initDialog /NOUNLOAD $PLUGINSDIR\test.ini
    Pop $R0 # HWND

    GetDlgItem $R1 $R0 1200 ;1200 + Field number - 1

    ;$R1 contains the HWND of the first field
    CreateFont $R2 "Tahoma" 10 700
    SendMessage $R1 ${WM_SETFONT} $R2 0

    InstallOptions::show
    Pop $R0

  Pop $R2
  Pop $R1
  Pop $R0

FunctionEnd

Yathosho
20th June 2004 21:53 UTC

as i'm using MUI, i tried the following code.

Var HWND
Var DLGITEM

Function .onInit
  !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_EXTRACT "ioA.ini"
FunctionEnd

Function SetCustomA
  !insertmacro MUI_HEADER_TEXT "Caption" "Description"
  !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_INITDIALOG "ioA.ini"
  Pop $HWND
  GetDlgItem $DLGITEM $HWND 1201 ;Field 2
  ToolTips::Classic $DLGITEM "Test"
  !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_DISPLAY "ioA.ini"
FunctionEnd

deguix
21st June 2004 02:21 UTC

You should attach your script so we can help to fix it properly.

Yathosho
21st June 2004 03:06 UTC

hope this helps :rolleyes:

deguix
21st June 2004 11:57 UTC

1) Remove !define MUI_CUSTOMPAGECOMMANDS.

2) Replace !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_DISPLAY "ioA.ini" by !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_SHOW.

Joel
21st June 2004 21:55 UTC

Updated plugin :D

New:
Customize the fore, background color as well the font and the size.

See the example for details.

:D

ezar2003
29th December 2004 16:05 UTC

Perfect!! and... Thank You!!! Where Can I download it? (in web page it's 1.0 version)

agentorange665
29th December 2004 18:36 UTC

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

But the link there just points here to lobos site:
http://www.lobo-lunar.com/nsis/

Although the version has not changed.

Joel
29th December 2004 19:02 UTC

I see, that was a debug upload in that time...

I'll work in the debug for a release one ;)

Joel
29th December 2004 19:31 UTC

Ok... updated

See the readme + examples....
What's new?
1. Custom colors.
2. Custom font face and size.

Archive

ezar2003
30th December 2004 09:12 UTC

Thank You!!!
I have some problem ;) If I add a tooltip to ComboBox or Button, when timeout expire tooltip don't appear anymore...
(Es decir, si en un ComboBox o un Botón asocio un Tooltip y lo hago aparecer, pasando el ratón por encima, cuando desaparece ya no vuelve a aparecer. Esto no pasa en un EntryField)

Joel
30th December 2004 14:53 UTC

Yes, I have the same problem... I don't know why, I use the user's timeout default appear-dissapear. I'll check msdn, maybe I'm missing something...

Thanks for the reply.... :)

Joel
23rd July 2006 04:36 UTC

Updated:

- Fix size bug.
- Added an example with custom page controls.

Mark Nascimento
23rd July 2006 07:32 UTC

Thanks, Joel.

onad
24th July 2006 18:46 UTC

Nice, I'll love plugins,

What about adding:

!addplugindir ".\"

to your NSIS script so we can try instantly?

Joel
25th July 2006 01:57 UTC

Originally posted by onad
Nice, I'll love plugins,

What about adding:

!addplugindir ".\"

to your NSIS script so we can try instantly?

Animaether
3rd May 2010 01:26 UTC

This plugin is no longer maintained, so I thought I'd write up some issues encountered in later versions of Windows (and in general usage):
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ToolTips...d_known_issues