empezar
11th January 2007 07:43 UTC

InstallOptions problem on Windows 2000
Hello.

I just got a bug report on my installer, with an error I could not reproduce. The installer downloads a file called mirrors.ini and puts the mirrors contained in that file in a drop-down menu on a preferences page.

The user only got the first entry of the mirrors.ini file displayed, yet everyone else saw all the mirrors. I then gave him a special version with some debug popups and we came to the conclusion that he was indeed able to read the entire mirrors.ini file, yet the drop-down could only display the first entry.

It turns out he was using Windows 2000 and that this was the problem, another user tried Windows 2000 and confirmed this.

This is the iopreferences.ini part where Windows 2000 fails:

[Field 3]
Type=DropList
ListItems=a|b|c
Left=10
Right=230
Top=20
Bottom=30
State=a

Windows 2000 only shows "a", and nothing else.

Can anyone give me any information on how to fix this? Is this an NSIS bug?

Anders
11th January 2007 08:44 UTC

from installoptions readme:

Note (2): For combobox or droplist, the "bottom" value is not used in the same way.
In this case, the bottom value is the maximum size of the window when the pop-up list is being displayed. All other times, the combobox is automatically sized to be one element tall. If you have trouble where you can not see the combobox drop-down, then check the bottom value and ensure it is large enough. A rough guide for the height required is the number of items in the list multiplied by 8, plus 20.

empezar
11th January 2007 11:59 UTC

that worked great, thanks!

I set bottom to 3000 :)