vjrabanelly
3rd February 2011 17:29 UTC

Resize nsDialogs window
Hi!

I've been looking for it a lot in this forum and in Google and didn't find the exact answer I was looking for...

I created an installer using nsDialogs after reading that InstallOptions got deprecated. Everything went well so far but now I'd like to resize the window. I did modify dialog 105 in modern.exe with ResHacker, but it doesn't change anything in nsDialogs.

So, is it possible to modify the size of the window in any way for nsDialogs? Where does nsDialogs gets its dimensions from?

Thank you.

Valentin

Anders
3rd February 2011 21:10 UTC

IIRC nsDialogs gets its size from the child control id you pass when you create the dialog, normally 1018

ZmAn3
4th February 2011 00:07 UTC

if you know how to use res hacker resize control 1018 i also usaully resize 1044 too

vjrabanelly
4th February 2011 07:54 UTC

Thanks for your replies.

I do know how to use ResHacker, but I didn't find the file I need to hack. In NSIS\Contrib\UIs, I tried every executable and only found 1033 controls.

It looks like there are no such things as 1018 or 1044 controls in modern.exe or standard.exe or even nsDialogs.dll...

Could you please tell me where I find these controls?

Afrow UK
4th February 2011 14:45 UTC

You missed it. 1018 is in dialog 105 of modern.exe.

Stu

vjrabanelly
4th February 2011 15:42 UTC

I found it now. So I modify the dimensions from ResHacker, only for 1018 and 1044 in C:\%ProgFiles%\NSIS\Contrib\UIs\modern.exe, dialog 105.

But when I launch my NSIS script (which uses nsDialogs::Create 1018), nothing changes. It looks like it doesn't take into account any changes in modern.exe because even if I delete it, it doesn't say anything and opens always with the same dimensions.

Anders and ZmAn3, are you talking about nsDialogs or MUI?
Do I have to do something more to indicate to NSIS to take new changes into account?
Do I have to modify other values than just 1018 and 1044 width and height?

Thank you! Your help is much appreciated!

Afrow UK
4th February 2011 15:45 UTC

Did you Compile and save?

Stu

vjrabanelly
4th February 2011 15:54 UTC

Yes. I can even see the result in opening the modern.exe directly after my modifications.

ZmAn3
7th February 2011 00:56 UTC

i could be wrong but i think it uses both uis when compiling with mui2 anyways grab this it has a resized ui and sample script i have a few more if you need them

http://zman3.deviantart.com/#/d35wzxk

vjrabanelly
7th February 2011 14:09 UTC

Adding MUI2 and an instFiles page resolved my problem!
Thank you very much ZmAn3! Your script helped me a lot! :up:

I wasn't using an InstFiles page, so NSIS didn't execute the install section. I did it on purpose since I didn't want any instFiles page, but I didn't know it wouldn't accept to show a custom UI in this case. So I added some lines to add an InstFiles page with MUI and it did the trick :

!include "MUI2.nsh"

!define MUI_UI "myCustomUI.exe"

!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_INSTFILES

!define MUI_PAGE_CUSTOMFUNCTION_PRE instFilesPre     ; Just before "!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_INSTFILES"

Function instFilesPre
    Quit
FunctionEnd