Sorting a DropList

Dear All ,

I have been using NSIS for quite some time now and i really find it very useful and interesting.

Till date all of my queries were answered by seraching through this elaborate Forum of yours. But now i have a query for which i could not find any answers.

I have created a DropList by using "SendMessage $R3 ${CB_ADDSTRING} 0 "STR:Item1" in a loop.

But after adding the items i am unable to sort this list.
Pls advise.

I am using NSIS 2.15 with InstalloptionsEx

Thanks in advance

- Ashutosh

You can set the CBS_SORT style of the combo box. You could do it by calling SetWindowLong with the System plug-in. If that doesn't work, you'll have to create the window with that style in advance. For that, you'd probably have to change the source code of InstallOptionsEx.

Thank you so much. Will try it out and let you know the outcome.

- Ashutosh

Hello Kichik,

Tried using the system plugin with the function mentioned by you, but it does not seem to work. This is what I tried :

strlen $5 $NEWLIST

intop $5 $5 - 1
${For} $R1 0 $5
strcmp $R1 0 0 +2
SendMessage $R3 ${CB_ADDSTRING} "STR:None"
strcpy $R2 $NEWLIST 1 $R1
strcmp $R2 "|" +2
SendMessage $R3 ${CB_ADDSTRING} 0 "STR:$R2"
${next}
SendMessage $R3 ${CB_SETCURSEL} 0 0
;SetWindowLong(hwnd,GWL_STYLE,0)
;!define GWL_STYLE -16
;!define GWL_EXSTYLE -20
strcpy $1 68288533 ;"0x2000L" ;"CBS_SORT"
System::Call "user32::SetWindowLongA(i $R3, i ${GWL_STYLE}, i r1)"

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So i just sorted my string before using the CB_ADDSTRING and that solved the problem.

Thanks you.

-Ashutosh

looking for the same. i'm using the locate plugin to get a couple of files i want to display in a droplist. looking for some way to sort the files alphabetically.

any ideas?

try setting the CBS_SORT style *before* adding the strings

Originally Posted by Wizou View Post

try setting the CBS_SORT style *before* adding the strings

it won't display the control.

i guess i could use the array plugin, but why should it - if it should work without it

I thought I had this added to the nsDialogs pages somewhere already, but I guess not.. Stuffed it into the FAQ.


( pages are slow to load again - try again later if it doesn't appear to go anywhere )

thanks animaether, works perfectly

For the record you have to get the current style first with GetWindowLong, binary or CBS_SORT with the returned value and set the new value with SetWindowLong.

Stu

Originally Posted by Afrow UK View Post

For the record you have to get the current style first with GetWindowLong, binary or CBS_SORT with the returned value and set the new value with SetWindowLong.

I couldn't get that to work when I made that header.. maybe I missed something, though...

!include "LogicLib.nsh"
!include "nsDialogs.nsh"
!include "WinMessages.nsh"
/* from: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/NsDialogs_FAQ#How_to_create_a_sorted_droplist_control */
!include "nsDialogs_createDroplistSorted.nsh"
OutFile test.exe
XPStyle on
Var dialog
Var hwnd
Var null
Page custom nsDialogsPage
Function nsDialogsPage
    nsDialogs::Create 1018
        Pop $dialog
    ${NSD_CreateDroplist} 0 0 100% 40% ""
        Pop $hwnd
        System::Call "user32::GetWindowLong(i $hwnd,i ${GWL_STYLE}) i.r1"
        IntOp $1 $1 | ${CBS_SORT}
        System::Call "user32::SetWindowLong(i $hwnd,i ${GWL_STYLE}, i r1)"
        ${NSD_CB_AddString} $hwnd "C"
        ${NSD_CB_AddString} $hwnd "B"
        ${NSD_CB_AddString} $hwnd "A"
        /* doesn't work? */
    ${NSD_CreateDroplistSorted} 0 20% 100% 40% ""
        Pop $hwnd
        ${NSD_CB_AddString} $hwnd "Z"
        ${NSD_CB_AddString} $hwnd "Y"
        ${NSD_CB_AddString} $hwnd "X"
        /* should work */
    nsDialogs::Show
FunctionEnd
Section
SectionEnd