help button for pages needed

could you please post at least the basic syntax??

Comm@nder21: post editted now 😉

-daz

Two words, absolutely great !

thx for the quick response

Hans

HansH: cool, good to hear it's working for you. i've been trying to get to a 1.0 state with it for almost a year now so it's good to know the updates haven't screwed things up too much 🙂

-daz

Window size using html

Using version 1.0RC1 (and older) I can't get the html helpwindow large enough. I'm using: HelpButton::show /NOUNLOAD "232,231" "?" "" "/html=xxx.html" "" "" "centerp" "800,800"
It's as if there is a max limit for the window size.
Is it possible to fix?

there shouldn't be a limit with the size (from the plugin side of things). the only thing i can think of is that the html help window enforces a size limit itself but without looking into this i can't say for certain. will try and look at it over the weekend (and update the wiki page as well)

-daz

Has anyone tested this plugin with Windows 7/ Vista and the latest nsis version. 5 Years are a loooong time.
I will give it a try, or are there already any other possibilities to give the user an extra information window? (The user needs to choose between several installing options which can't be explained in the short description box)

The Help Button shows up after 3 seconds, don't know why it takes so long?
Does anyone has a complete documentation for 1.0 or could tell me what's important to set?

The screen size of the html is always the same, can't make it bigger. It's opened on the upper left corner of the desktop.

Function helpCombo

 HelpButton::show /NOUNLOAD "300,100" "?" "" "/html=c:\gps\gpsbabel.html" "" "" "centerp" "1024,768"

FunctionEnd

--> should open in the center of the installer window, but it's on upper left coprner of the desktop
--> should be 1024 x 768, but it's only about 150 x 150
--> using MUI2.nsh

Can I insert an html link instead of this help button, so that a browser window is opened? maybe this would be easier?

i've never tested it on Vista/Win7 (no idea if anyone else has) but i don't think i've even got the source code for this anymore (and it'd need a complete re-code anyway to make it compatible with ansi and unicode installers that are now available). however it's been so long since i've done NSIS plug-in coding i don't think i'm going to have the time to make a new version.

as for the size limits it sounds like it's an issue with the plug-in's ability to control the html control (though i had thought it allowed for larger sizes when i'd developed it so maybe something with the IE web browser control has changed, dunno).

you might be able to make a link control with nsDialogs and go that way, am sure i'll be corrected if i'm wrong, heh

-daz

thanks for your quick answer!
Ok, that's good to know. I will try it with nsdialogs or the linker plugin.