About Link Field (don't want entire text show up as link)

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lyz
14th December 2005 19:29 UTC

About Link Field (don't want entire text show up as link)
Hi there,

Link field is great. But how do I use a single link field to achieve a simple task like this:

Click here to go to my homepage.

If I use a single link field and specifying the entire sentence as "text", the whole sentence turns into link. But I only want "here" to be a link.

Do I have to make 3 fields for this: a "Click" text field, a "here" link field, and another text field for the rest of the text? But as the sentence gets longer, text wrapping becomes challenging.

I'm sure this is a common scenario. How do you guys do this?

Thanks,
lyz

Jnuw
14th December 2005 22:20 UTC

Hello.

Here is one option. I assume you are getting your link on the Finish Page with this:


!define MUI_FINISHPAGE_LINK "Click here to go to my homepage"
!define MUI_FINISHPAGE_LINK_LOCATION "http://www.blabla.com"

That being said, the ioSpecial.ini is being populated with this:


[Field 4]
Type=Link
Text=Click here to go to my homepage
Left=120
Right=315
Top=175
Bottom=185
State=http://www.blabla.com

So...you could simply add a MUI_PAGE_CUSTOMFUNCTION_PRE function define right before your Finish page macro, like this:


!define MUI_PAGE_CUSTOMFUNCTION_PRE "FinishPre"
!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_FINISH

And then add the function itself like this:


Function FinishPre
  !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_WRITE "ioSpecial.ini" "Settings" "NumFields" "5"  ;need to add 1 (4+1=5) to what value is already in there

!insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_WRITE "ioSpecial.ini" "Field 4" "Type" "Label" ;this will change your link (field number from above) to just a label

!insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_WRITE "ioSpecial.ini" "Field 5" "Type" "Link"
!insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_WRITE "ioSpecial.ini" "Field 5" "Text" "HERE"
!insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_WRITE "ioSpecial.ini" "Field 5" "Left" "130"  ;Guessing here...
!insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_WRITE "ioSpecial.ini" "Field 5" "Right" "139" ;Guessing here too...
!insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_WRITE "ioSpecial.ini" "Field 5" "Top" "175"
!insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_WRITE "ioSpecial.ini" "Field 5" "Bottom" "185"
!insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_WRITE "ioSpecial.ini" "Field 5" "State" "http://www.blabla.com"
; the above 7 lines should place the link HERE right on top of the label
; you made above.  You will have to test your right/left settings
FunctionEnd

Hope this helps!

lyz
14th December 2005 22:54 UTC

Thanks Jnuw for your great reply. I thought about that too. I really hoped NSIS can let us to define which region of the text to show as link for a link field. I should probably add an RFE for this. :)

Thanks again,
lyz

Anders
14th December 2005 23:00 UTC

it should be possible(but alot of work) to to get this working as a single control using the syslink class ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...slinkovrvw.asp ) but it only works on 2000 and later (xp and 2000 are not even the same, so you would need two different implementations) using either alot of system calls or a custom plugin