IYIaster
9th May 2009 14:10 UTC

Best way to change background color?
I have a custom page. With some text boxes

                
${NSD_CreateNumber} 0 15 50% 12u "Message Here"       
Pop $LABEL
SetCtlColors $LABEL ${RED} ${RED} 

I've been trying to change the BG colors for these text boxes. All that code does is change the BG color to black and you cant see the text. If there a better way to do this? Also I would like to make the text inside the box to not be edited how do you do this. Not alot of info on NSD_CREATE

Animaether
9th May 2009 14:29 UTC

what is RED defined as?

for nsDialogs examples, see the Wiki category:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Category:NsDialogs_Examples

of particular interest for you might be:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Color_In..._for_nsDialogs
and
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/NsDialogs_FAQ

Here'a s skeleton example:

!addplugindir "."
!addincludedir "."

!include "nsDialogs.nsh"
!include "winmessages.nsh"
!include "logiclib.nsh"

!include "MUI2.nsh"

OutFile "test.exe"

!define Black 0x000000
!define LightRed 0xff8080

var dialog
var hwnd
var null

Page custom nsDialog

Function nsDialog
    nsDialogs::Create 1018
    ${NSD_CreateText} 0 0 100% 8% "Hello world"
        Pop $hwnd
        SetCtlColors $hwnd ${Black} ${LightRed}
        SendMessage $hwnd ${EM_SETREADONLY} 1 0

    nsDialogs::Show
FunctionEnd

Section
SectionEnd
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "English"

IYIaster
9th May 2009 16:45 UTC

Thanks for your help... I was able to change the BGcolor but now I'm trying to change the BG color depending on what I get back from hwinfo here is the code I made maybe I'm going about it all wrong. This just turns the box black.

        HwInfo::GetSystemMemory
        strCpy $R0 $0
        ${NSD_CreateText} 75 20 18% 12u "$0 MB"
        Pop $Text
        
        
        IntCmp $0 3900 isrec lessrec morerec
lessrec:
IntCmp $0 1900 ismin lessmin moremin

lessmin:
SetCtlColors $Text ${BLACK} ${RED}
goto endofram

isrec:
morerec:
        SetCtlColors $Text ${BLACK} ${GREEN}
        goto endofram
ismin:
moremin:
        SetCtlColors $Text ${BLACK} ${Yellow}
endofram:

Afrow UK
9th May 2009 17:13 UTC

Use LogicLib.

Stu

IYIaster
9th May 2009 17:44 UTC

I Tried that too

        HwInfo::GetSystemMemory
        strCpy $R0 $0
        ${NSD_CreateText} 75 20 18% 12u "$0 MB"
        Pop $Text
        ${If} $0 >= '3900'
        SetCtlColors $Text ${BLACK} ${GREEN}
        ${ElseIf} $0 >= '1900'
        SetCtlColors $Text ${BLACK} ${Yellow}
        ${ElseIf} $0 < '1900'
        SetCtlColors $Text ${BLACK} ${RED}
        ${EndIf}

Just turns the box black

IYIaster
9th May 2009 18:14 UTC

Nevermind I got it working.