Available Disk Space on Components page.

Hi,
Is there a way to display the available space on the
Components page instead of the Directory page since I am
not using the Directory page (MUI)?

Thanks in advance.

Rishi.

NSIS doesn't show the available space on the Components page because the user has not yet selected a drive to install the program on at that point in the installer. If you wanted to put a disk space counter on the Components page, you could use System.dll to get the available space on C: and then use SendMessage to set the text on the Components page. However this might require modifying the UI file with Resource Hacker or similar.

Here's a simple example of setting the text:

!define MUI_PAGE_CUSTOMFUNCTION_SHOW SetText



Function SetText

  ; Here you want to put code to get the abount of disk space available on C:.

  ; This example assumes that the value is stored in $0, and that the value is in MB.

  FindWindow $0 "#32770" "" $HWNDPARENT

  GetDlgItem $0 $0 1023

  SendMessage $0 0xC 0 "STR:Space Required: replace_with_space_required$\nSpace Available: $0MB"

FunctionEnd

-dandaman32

Originally Posted by dandaman32 View Post

NSIS doesn't show the available space on the Components page because the user has not yet selected a drive to install the program on at that point in the installer. If you wanted to put a disk space counter on the Components page, you could use System.dll to get the available space on C: and then use SendMessage to set the text on the Components page. However this might require modifying the UI file with Resource Hacker or similar.

Here's a simple example of setting the text:

!define MUI_PAGE_CUSTOMFUNCTION_SHOW SetText



Function SetText

  ; Here you want to put code to get the abount of disk space available on C:.

  ; This example assumes that the value is stored in $0, and that the value is in MB.

  FindWindow $0 "#32770" "" $HWNDPARENT

  GetDlgItem $0 $0 1023

  SendMessage $0 0xC 0 "STR:Space Required: replace_with_space_required$\nSpace Available: $0MB"

FunctionEnd

-dandaman32

Hi dandaman32, in the quot, you mentioned "use System.dll to get the available space". Could you guide me to do that? Thank so much

Originally Posted by jpderuiter View Post

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...alldir-in-nsis

Hi jp deruiter, thank for your link.
Would you mind helping me for another problem?
I want to add a text "Space avaialble" under the text "Space required" in the component page. I tried to customize the page with MUI_PAGE_CUSTOMFUNCTION_SHOW.

!define MUI_INSTALLOPTIONS_INITDIALOG CreateLabel

Function CreateLabel

${NSD_CreateLabel} 2u 110u 66u 13u "Space available:"

FunctionEnd

But it didn't work to me.

Just like in the post you quoted before.