Testy
17th October 2009 23:40 UTC

Setting section descriptions
Hello, after reading numerous FAQs, the forum rules, Googling, and searching around the NSIS wiki I make this question:

How do I set THIS section description (red, see image):
http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/1763/ex2.png
I managed to put the description in the yellow marked area using

4.7.2.1.6 .onMouseOverSection

This callback is called whenever the mouse position over the sections tree has changed. This allows you to set a description for each section for example. The section id on which the mouse is over currently is stored, temporarily, in $0.

Example:

Function .onMouseOverSection
FindWindow $R0 "#32770" "" $HWNDPARENT
GetDlgItem $R0 $R0 1043 ; description item (must be added to the UI)

StrCmp $0 0 "" +2
SendMessage $R0 ${WM_SETTEXT} 0 "STR:first section description"

StrCmp $0 1 "" +2
SendMessage $R0 ${WM_SETTEXT} 0 "STR:second section description"
FunctionEnd

redxii
18th October 2009 10:00 UTC

You want it on the bottom? Add this:

!define MUI_COMPONENTSPAGE_SMALLDESC

Launch NSIS, click Modern UI 2 under Documentation for more settings.

pengyou
18th October 2009 10:38 UTC

If you want to define the text that appears under "Description" read the "Components page descriptions" section of the Modern UI manual. Several of the example scripts which come with NSIS use component descriptions, e.g. Examples\Modern UI\Basic.nsi

Testy
19th October 2009 19:46 UTC

@redxii: Thats not what I meant, I just wanted to set a description, not to change the interface layout, thanks aniways.

@pengyou: Thats exactly what I was looking for, seems like I was missing one macro to make it work, after looking into your example and the documentation you pointed I finally managed to make it work. Thanks!

Issue solved, if a mod wants to close the thread, so be it.