Takhir
12th July 2005 19:18 UTC

Embedded Banner plug-in
Plug-in shows image (bmp, jpeg, gif are supported) on the bottom of installer' page and plays sound (if necessary :) ). I know this is possible with custom page, may be such plug-in was even wrote earlier (I not found it in archive), but vbgunz' idea looked funny for me and I spent about hour merging 2 other plug-ins code (NewAdvSplash and Marquee). Tested on XP only.
'stop' entry point (call) is optional, plug-in can auto-destroy image on the dialog exit. Image is not clickable and it's position is fixed (dialog bottom). Result looks simple for usage (attached). If this will appear to be interesting, I'll create wiki page and upload VS project.
Link to file http://nsis.sourceforge.net/mediawik...72/EBanner.zip

Comperio
13th July 2005 01:23 UTC

This looks very promising.

I could even see using this to replace certain message boxes for things like "invalid directory" and such that get called during page leave functions.

Takhir
13th July 2005 07:19 UTC

In most cases only 3-rd version looks good. So the question - what features to add to the second build :) ?

1. Image auto-scale down if it is wider then page 'child dialog' (IMHO scale up may looks ugly). May be this is not important if NSIS dialog size is fixed (or how it works with fixed-size banners on the top of page?), but default dialog size in Windows depends on system font size.
2. /align=left or right.
3. Better auto-stop on page exit (+ IDABORT). Because I am not sure when Parent window receives WM_CLOSE, may be on the final exit only (plug-in paints on the 'child' dialog window inside parent one).
4. May be cross-page 'keep alive' instead of 'auto-stop' on the page change? If Parent window is the same during installation (and we attached plug-in to it's wndproc) it is possible to understand during wm_paint handling that old 'child' window was lost and to find new one. But I am not sure - INSTFILES looks the only good place for big banner.
4. And finally - what else?

Takhir
13th July 2005 17:25 UTC

EBanner plug-in - version 0.2
Option /ALIGN={LEFT|RIGHT}
Image scale down (if it is too big).
Image may be changed without plug-in unload with next 'show' call. Empty string as file name ("") cleares image but not stops sound (if any). The same with 'play' entry point - empty sound file name stops playing (tested with 'winamp media file' :) )

Comperio
14th July 2005 00:50 UTC

Image auto-scale down if it is wider then page 'child dialog' (IMHO scale up may looks ugly). May be this is not important if NSIS dialog size is fixed (or how it works with fixed-size banners on the top of page?), but default dialog size in Windows depends on system font size.

Takhir
14th July 2005 09:31 UTC

IPicture interface I used in EBanner plug-in paints gif images with transparency ;)
Fade-in/out effectes in the AdvSplash based on the 'layered' window attributes, which looks not(?) applicable to child window. Or this not worked in my test and this is why I removed child window at all and now plugin paints directly on the installer page. AplhaBlend is posiible way, but I need to make it working with IPicture hdc. May be later...
wiki page

Takhir
14th July 2005 16:48 UTC

Version 0.3 uses IImgCtx instead of IPicture to support more image formats. Updated wiki page

grahama
15th July 2005 00:46 UTC

Wow Takhir :)
this is very cool...
I was using MSIBANNER, but this looks like a step up....
;
side note:
my girlfriend's brother just climbed to the top of Mt Elbrus located in Russian republics of Karachay-Cherkess and Kabardin-Balkar. Pictures were very cool...
g

Comperio
15th July 2005 00:57 UTC

Agreed. Very cool!

Takhir
15th July 2005 07:06 UTC

Thanks! May be sometimes animation will be supported as well :)

jtweather
29th April 2006 15:36 UTC

Takhir, does the EBanner Plugin work with the InstallOptionsEx Plugin?

jtweather

Takhir
14th May 2006 09:55 UTC

Sorry, I was offline 2 weeks (1000 km bike trip ;) )
I guess Yes, AFAIK IOEx uses the same child window for extended controls set. Any case you can use /HWND= parameter to set target window.

dienjd
27th June 2006 22:00 UTC

Takhir,
I've noticed that images disappear when the installer window loses focus. Any ideas on preventing this?

Takhir
28th June 2006 06:59 UTC

I re-tested last (ebanner.dll June 21, 2006) and previous version (February) on XP and 2003, both included examples (Example.nsi and FullBg.nsi), works correct. WM_PAINT should work both with focus and without this. What precisely you do? Script? Did you tested this on big display intervals (Sleep 10000) ?

dienjd
28th June 2006 18:03 UTC

Takhir,
Sorry about that. I thought I was using a recent version of the plug-in, but I just re-downloaded, and the newest version does not have this problem :)

desga2
10th November 2007 18:17 UTC

png image not showed with the plugin.
Hi all people,
I have problems to do work EBanner plugin in my Nsis script.
The png image isn't showed in preview page (second page) of my installer. This page is make with InstallOptions plugin as custom page.

If i use a bmp file without EBanner plugin preview image is showed but i like change the image to png file for less installer package size.

I think that i tried all possibles methods for showed preview image with EBanner plugin without positives results.

You can download the script files from here:
http://two.xthost*******kmeleon/Themes/SkipStone.zip

Any help is welcome, thanks.