A few questions about SetBkColor

19 posts

JoelMarch 29, 2003 at 1:57 PM#

A few questions about SetBkColor

1. What is the color format for SetBkColor?
2.

Sets a background color for a static control, edit control, button or a dialog

Can we use it to paint the hole dialog? 😁 how?

PS1: Already attempting to paint the edit box
for the dir. installation, and it's working 👍 .

PS2: I've been promoted as Major Dude 😁 😁

kichikMarch 29, 2003 at 2:06 PM#

Like controls dialogs have a HWND too. For example, the outer dialog's HWND is $HWNDPARENT.

JoelMarch 29, 2003 at 2:27 PM#

Ok, thanks ... I can change the rest of the statics bgcolors
in the dialog, license, components, etc
to be the same of the $HWNDPARENT;
but the in startmenu dialog, how can we change the static labels and
buttons bgcolors?

kichikMarch 29, 2003 at 2:31 PM#

StartMenu doesn't support SetBkColor yet. Put a feature request on SF.

JoelMarch 29, 2003 at 4:35 PM#

Ok, also for the labels for the "Agree or No Agree" in License
page

😛

kichikMarch 29, 2003 at 4:39 PM#

Those are buttons with the IDs 1034 for I Agree and 1035 I Disagree. They support color changes too.

JoelMarch 29, 2003 at 5:33 PM#

Ok, I almost done with
the "painting" 😁

But, who can I change the part with the labels

See screenshot

kichikMarch 29, 2003 at 5:37 PM#

Look for FindWindow in System.nsh. It finds HWNDs inside the inner dialog and sets their texts. Use the same only with SetBkColor instead of SendMessage WM_SETTEXT.

JoelMarch 29, 2003 at 6:10 PM#

Not all the inner dialgos has it

JoelMarch 29, 2003 at 6:12 PM#

Not all the inner dialgos has it



Push ${MUI_TEMP1}



    FindWindow ${MUI_TEMP1} "#32770" "" $HWNDPARENT

    GetDlgItem ${MUI_TEMP1} ${MUI_TEMP1} ${CONTROL}

    SendMessage ${MUI_TEMP1} ${WM_SETTEXT} 0 "STR:${TEXT}"

    

  SetBkColor ${MUI_TEMP1} ${NsisColor} ; Nsiscolor is 0x009c9485



  Pop ${MUI_TEMP1}

kichikMarch 29, 2003 at 6:12 PM#

Has what? HWNDs? Every window including buttons, text boxes, dialogs, Internet Explorer windows and even the desktop has a HWND.

JoelMarch 29, 2003 at 6:30 PM#

Oops!
I forgot to put "Not all the inner text has the BGcolor"
See past post for the screenshot

kichikMarch 29, 2003 at 6:37 PM#

Did you set the color using SetBkColor? I have mentioned the IDs of the radio buttons in the above post. You can get the rest using resource hacker.

JoelMarch 29, 2003 at 9:51 PM#

Yes!
I almost done it 😁

But still some areas 🙁

kichikMarch 30, 2003 at 10:11 AM#

Don't forget to set the inner dialog's color. BTW, you can't change the background color of the branding text thanks to some "nice" Windows limitations.

JoelMarch 30, 2003 at 12:51 PM#

Ok, after hours my "touchie" hurts 😁
What's the ID for the inner dialog and where I should put it?
In ".onInit" or ".onGUIInit"
I'm trying this:



FindWindow $0 "#32770" "" $HWNDPARENT

GetDlgItem $0 $0 1044

SetBkColor $0 0x00FFFFFF

kichikMarch 30, 2003 at 12:56 PM#

The inner dialog is what you find using FindWindow. The first $0 in the above script of yours.

Afrow UKMarch 30, 2003 at 1:41 PM#

This sure looks nice!

What colour code would you be using by any chance, since if I use anything other than 0xFFFFFF (same as 0x00FFFFFF) then it goes black.

-Stuart

JoelMarch 30, 2003 at 3:31 PM#



!define NsisColor "0x009c9485"



!define MUI_CUSTOMFUNCTION_GUIINIT "PaintME"



Function "PaintME"

SetBkColor $HWNDPARENT ${NsisColor}

GetDlgItem $0 $HWNDPARENT 1 ;button

SetBkColor $0 ${NsisColor}

GetDlgItem $0 $HWNDPARENT 2 ;Button

SetBkColor $0 ${NsisColor}

GetDlgItem $0 $HWNDPARENT 3 ;Button

SetBkColor $0 ${NsisColor}

FunctionEnd

Did you manage to paint the hole installer?
Can we see some screenshots?