meganoob
9th September 2005 13:34 UTC

Tooltips NSIS plugin problems
I have been testing this interesting plugin for NSIS and noticed that it has some problems...

First, the ToolTips::Modern example that comes inside zip file does not work on my windows xp machine, but works on a windows 2000 one. The ToolTips::Classic example works on both.

Second, after many attempts I realized that the font size does not change in any way in both examples (ToolTips::Modern and ToolTips::Classic).

Did anybody notice this too?

Joel
9th September 2005 14:36 UTC

No problems at all... :)

Tested on XP, and seems that is working good.

meganoob
9th September 2005 14:41 UTC

Well, I tested it on 2 xp machines (at my work and at home), with NSIS 2.09 and nothing :(

Maybe baloon tips disabled could be the culprit. I use a foreign language xp sp2 (brazilian portuguese).

meganoob
9th September 2005 16:24 UTC

Confirmed! If someone turns off balloon tips in Windows XP, ToolTips::Modern doesn't work anymore...

1. Start Regedit
2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\
3. Create a DWORD value of EnableBalloonTips
4. Give it a value of 0
5. Reboot
6. ToolTips::Modern is now non-functional :(

Is there a way to fix it? Or the modern ToolTips depends on this?

Joel
9th September 2005 22:35 UTC

For the secure of the end user, I prefer NOT to modify the user's registry...

Sorry!

meganoob
10th September 2005 12:04 UTC

Well, Microsoft gave us Powertoys for Windows XP TweakUI that at "Taskbar and Start Menu" has the option "Enable balloon tips", so you can choose to have it or not. Try yourself.

Joel
11th September 2005 04:06 UTC

I know... that :D

But I ment... change the source code of the plugin... ;)
Although, you can change the registry with NSIS instructions :)