ToolTips plugin: How usefull?

30 posts

JoelMay 15, 2004 at 11:31 AM#

ToolTips plugin: How usefull?

How usefull will be a plugin that will allow to display Tooltips in some controls of the Installer's dialog?

VegetaSanMay 15, 2004 at 7:37 PM#

very usefull .. and very cool.... !!!!

JoelMay 16, 2004 at 11:35 AM#

In progress 🙂

JoelMay 18, 2004 at 8:35 PM#

See first version of it.
Compile the example.

Comments?

deguixMay 19, 2004 at 12:03 AM#

Hmmm... Great, it worked very well with Win XP!

Keep up with the good work!

👍 👍

JoelMay 19, 2004 at 8:56 PM#

For the Modern tooltip will need IE 5 or Windows 98.

Any luck in Win9x and Win2k users?

pengyouMay 19, 2004 at 9:08 PM#

Both types of tooltip appeared on my Win98SE system

JoelMay 20, 2004 at 11:36 AM#

Thanks!

I'll do final fixes, than load-it up in the web archive
🙂

YathoshoJune 6, 2004 at 10:57 AM#

does this also work for IO pages?

JoelJune 6, 2004 at 11:35 AM#

Yes, you'll just get the HWND of the control.

YathoshoJune 6, 2004 at 11:57 AM#

is there a tool, which shows me the HWND of my controls (onmouseover)?

JoelJune 6, 2004 at 2:35 PM#

Don't need to, in your show function of the custom page, use as the documentation of InstallOptions:

GetDlgItem (output var) (hwnd of the custom dialog) (1200 + Field number - 1)

I'll try to make an example

YathoshoJune 20, 2004 at 3:34 PM#

how do i get the hwnd of the custom page then? 🙂

JoelJune 20, 2004 at 4:07 PM#



Function FunctionName ;FunctionName defined with Page command



  ;Display the Install Options dialog



  Push $R0

  Push $R1

  Push $R2



    InstallOptions::initDialog /NOUNLOAD $PLUGINSDIR\test.ini

    Pop $R0 # HWND



    GetDlgItem $R1 $R0 1200 ;1200 + Field number - 1



    ;$R1 contains the HWND of the first field

    CreateFont $R2 "Tahoma" 10 700

    SendMessage $R1 ${WM_SETFONT} $R2 0



    InstallOptions::show

    Pop $R0



  Pop $R2

  Pop $R1

  Pop $R0



FunctionEnd

YathoshoJune 20, 2004 at 6:53 PM#

as i'm using MUI, i tried the following code.

Var HWND

Var DLGITEM



Function .onInit

  !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_EXTRACT "ioA.ini"

FunctionEnd



Function SetCustomA

  !insertmacro MUI_HEADER_TEXT "Caption" "Description"

  !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_INITDIALOG "ioA.ini"

  Pop $HWND

  GetDlgItem $DLGITEM $HWND 1201 ;Field 2

  ToolTips::Classic $DLGITEM "Test"

  !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_DISPLAY "ioA.ini"

FunctionEnd

the result of this is the installer quitting instantly after calling that page. can anyone help me out please?

deguixJune 20, 2004 at 11:21 PM#

You should attach your script so we can help to fix it properly.

YathoshoJune 21, 2004 at 12:06 AM#

hope this helps 🙄

deguixJune 21, 2004 at 8:57 AM#

1) Remove !define MUI_CUSTOMPAGECOMMANDS.

2) Replace !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_DISPLAY "ioA.ini" by !insertmacro MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_SHOW.

JoelJune 21, 2004 at 6:55 PM#

Updated plugin 😁

New:
Customize the fore, background color as well the font and the size.

See the example for details.

😁

ezar2003December 29, 2004 at 2:05 PM#

Perfect!! and... Thank You!!! Where Can I download it? (in web page it's 1.0 version)

agentorange665December 29, 2004 at 4:36 PM#

In the archive: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/archive/...instances=0,32

But the link there just points here to lobos site:

http://www.lobo-lunar.com/nsis/

Although the version has not changed.

JoelDecember 29, 2004 at 5:02 PM#

I see, that was a debug upload in that time...

I'll work in the debug for a release one 😉

JoelDecember 29, 2004 at 5:31 PM#

Ok... updated

See the readme + examples....
What's new?
1. Custom colors.
2. Custom font face and size.

Archive

ezar2003December 30, 2004 at 7:12 AM#

Thank You!!!
I have some problem 😉 If I add a tooltip to ComboBox or Button, when timeout expire tooltip don't appear anymore...
(Es decir, si en un ComboBox o un Botón asocio un Tooltip y lo hago aparecer, pasando el ratón por encima, cuando desaparece ya no vuelve a aparecer. Esto no pasa en un EntryField)

JoelDecember 30, 2004 at 12:53 PM#

Yes, I have the same problem... I don't know why, I use the user's timeout default appear-dissapear. I'll check msdn, maybe I'm missing something...

Thanks for the reply.... 🙂

JoelJuly 23, 2006 at 1:36 AM#

Updated:

- Fix size bug.
- Added an example with custom page controls.

Mark NascimentoJuly 23, 2006 at 4:32 AM#

Thanks, Joel.

onadJuly 24, 2006 at 3:46 PM#

Nice, I'll love plugins,

What about adding:

!addplugindir ".\"

to your NSIS script so we can try instantly?

JoelJuly 24, 2006 at 10:57 PM#

Originally posted by onad
Nice, I'll love plugins,

What about adding:

!addplugindir ".\"

to your NSIS script so we can try instantly?

Maybe 🙂
on next release 😉

AnimaetherMay 2, 2010 at 10:26 PM#

This plugin is no longer maintained, so I thought I'd write up some issues encountered in later versions of Windows (and in general usage):

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/ToolTips_plug-in#Limitations_and_known_issues