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UI ReadMe
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Notes on how the customised UI files were created.
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NOTES ON HOW THE CUSTOMISED UI FILES FOR THE POPFILE INSTALLER WERE CREATED
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Last updated: 22 September 2003 (11:50 GMT)
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INTRODUCTION
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The NSIS "Modern User Interface" (MUI) provides a range of general purpose
User Interface (UI) files offering a variety of interface formats. Soon after
work started on modifying the POPFile installer to work with languages other
than English, it was found that these default UI files did not provide enough
room for some of the non-English language strings.
To solve this problem, the following customised UI files have been created:
(1) pfi_modern.exe based upon ${NSISDIR}\Contrib\UIs\modern.exe
(2) pfi_headerbmp.exe based upon ${NSISDIR}\Contrib\UIs\modern_headerbmp.exe
(3) pfi_headerbmpr.exe based upon ${NSISDIR}\Contrib\UIs\modern_headerbmpr.exe
The current versions of these customised UI files are based upon the UI files
provided in the NSIS CVS snapshot of 27 August 2003 (19:44 GMT).
Future updates to the NSIS compiler may not be compatible with these customised
UI files. These notes describe in detail how these files were created, to make
it easier to create updated versions to suit newer NSIS compilers.
'Resource Hacker' (http://www.users.on.net/johnson/resourcehacker/) was used to
create these customised versions of the NSIS MUI UI files.
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'PFI_MODERN.EXE' NOTES
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This UI file contains the resource used to display the banner which appears
when POPFile is being started by the installer and also when an uninstall is
performed during an upgrade installation. The banner's icon has been moved to
the left to allow the width of the two text areas to be increased.
'pfi_modern.exe' v1.1 was created by modifying 'modern.exe', NSIS CVS v1.33
(dated 05-Aug-2003), as follows:
[1] Dialog 111, Control 103 (the icon image)
Left/Top/Width/Height changed from "10, 10, 21, 20"
to " 7, 10, 21, 20"
(i.e. image moved 3 units to the left)
[2] Dialog 111, Control 76 (the upper text area)
Left/Top/Width/Height changed from "40, 10, 120, 10"
to "35, 10, 125, 10"
(i.e left edge moved 5 units to left, width increased by 5 units)
[3] Dialog 111, Control 1030 (the lower text area}
Left/Top/Width/Height changed from "40, 25, 120, 10"
to "35, 25, 125, 10"
(i.e left edge moved 5 units to left, width increased by 5 units)
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'PFI_HEADERBMP.EXE' AND 'PFI_HEADERBMPR.EXE' NOTES
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The standard NSIS "Modern User Interface" (MUI) supports 150 x 57 pixel
bitmaps, placed at the left of the header area (using 'modern_headerbmp.exe')
or at the right (using 'modern_headerbmpr.exe').
The POPFile installer uses a small 'hdr-common.bmp' bitmap logo which is only
90 x 57 pixels. This means more space can be made available in the header area
for the Title and SubTitle text.
The default 150 pixel width is equivalent to 100 dialog units, so a 90 pixel
width is assumed to be 60 dialog units. The bitmap width is reduced to 60
units, leaving 40 units available to increase the width of the two text areas.
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'PFI_HEADERBMP.EXE' CHANGES (bitmap appears at the left of the header area)
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'pfi_headerbmp.exe' v1.1 was created by modifying 'modern_headerbmp.exe',
NSIS CVS v1.5 (dated 05-Aug-2003), as follows:
[1] Dialog 105, Control 1037 (the TITLE text area)
Left/Top/Width/Height changed from "105, 5, 215, 10"
to "65, 5, 255, 10"
(i.e. left edge moved 40 units to left, width increased by 40 units)
[2] Dialog 105, Control 1038 (the SUBTITLE text area)
Left/Top/Width/Height changed from "110, 17, 210, 16"
to "70, 17, 250, 16"
(i.e. left edge moved 40 units to left, width increased by 40 units)
[3] Dialog 105, Control 1046 (the bitmap at the left of the header area)
Left/Top/Width/Height changed from "0, 0, 100, 35"
to "0, 0, 60, 35"
(i.e. width reduced by 40 units)
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'PFI_HEADERBMPR.EXE' CHANGES (bitmap appears at the right of the header area)
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'pfi_headerbmpr.exe' v1.1 was created by modifying 'modern_headerbmpr.exe',
NSIS CVS v1.5 (dated 05-Aug-2003), as follows:
[1] Dialog 105, Control 1037 (the TITLE text area)
Left/Top/Width/Height changed from "10, 5, 215, 10"
to "10, 5, 255, 10"
(i.e. width increased by 40 units)
[2] Dialog 105, Control 1038 (the SUB-TITLE text area)
Left/Top/Width/Height changed from "15, 17, 210, 16"
to "15, 17, 250, 16"
(i.e. width increased by 40 units)
[3] Dialog 105, Control 1046 (the bitmap at the right of the header area)
Left/Top/Width/Height changed from "231, 0, 100, 35"
to "271, 0, 60, 35"
(i.e. left edge moved 40 units to right, width reduced by 40 units)
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