Seban
12th October 2012 09:30 UTC

Read-only checkbox on custom page
Hello,

I am trying to display the chosen components on a summary page. I use checkboxes to do this:

${NSD_CreateCheckBox} 0 44u 100% 12u "Component 1"
Pop $chkComp1
${If} ${SectionIsSelected} ${Section1}
${NSD_Check} $chkComp1
${EndIf}

Is it possible to set the checkbox read-only? I did this with a textbox:

${NSD_CreateText} 0 13u 100% 12u $(summary_text_path)
Pop $txtPath
SendMessage $txtPath ${EM_SETREADONLY} 1 0

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/NsDialog...y_Text_control

Unfortunately it seems not to work with checkboxes.

Another idea I had was disabling the checkboxes (EnableWindow $chkComp1 0), but this grays out the boxes and the caption and I don't like the look of it.

My third idea would be using images of checkboxes and putting them next to labels, but I think there is a better way to do this.

Can someone help me out? Thanks in advance!

T.Slappy
12th October 2012 11:05 UTC

Quick idea: what about placing other control (which support transparency 0 label, image, ...) over your checkbox?
User will not be able to click the checkbox as control above it will catch the event.

Afrow UK
12th October 2012 11:08 UTC

Originally posted by T.Slappy
Quick idea: what about placing other control (which support transparency 0 label, image, ...) over your checkbox?
User will not be able to click the checkbox as control above it will catch the event.

That is not a good idea because the user can use Tab to access the control and then Space to change its state.

If you want a read-only check box then I would advise disabling it. This is what the user expects and not having it disabled will probably result in people thinking it's a bug.

Stu

Seban
12th October 2012 17:58 UTC

Originally posted by Afrow UK
If you want a read-only check box then I would advise disabling it. This is what the user expects and not having it disabled will probably result in people thinking it's a bug.

That's a very good point.

Now I'm going to create the checkboxes (disabled) with empty strings as caption and put labels next to them. Then the checkboxes are disabled, but the text remains black.

Thanks to both of you for your help.

Anders
13th October 2012 02:53 UTC

Originally posted by Afrow UK
That is not a good idea because the user can use Tab to access the control and then Space to change its state.

Stu

You could remove the WS_TABSTOP style from the checkbox