Metadata for form fields?

pmilkman · 6th September 2016, 14:18

I'm trying to make a re-usable onclick function for help icons that I can use for all of them. The problem I'm running into is that I can't seem to find a place to store the text for the help icon MessageBox that pops up.

Bitmap doesn't have a 'text' property. Others do like Button, but I don't want the help text displaying on the button, just queryable in the onclick, and I need to have this styled like in my bitmap.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

Anders · 6th September 2016, 14:36

You really should provide some more information when you post questions! Is this a custom page? Plug-ins used?

Anyway, if this is a nsDialogs custom page then nsDialogs has set/get functions to add some data to each control...

pmilkman · 6th September 2016, 14:57

Sorry!

Thanks for the reply.

I'm still kind of new to NSIS (if it isn't obvious).

This is a custom page using nsdialogs.

Are you referring to NSD_SetText and NSD_GetText? Can these be applied to bitmaps? I haven't tried that. (In meetings for a while and can't test right away) That would definitely solve my problem. Or some other way to attach key/value information that can be queried in an onclick event handler.

Anders · 6th September 2016, 18:24

No I'm talking about nsDialogs::SetUserData

6th September 2016, 14:18	#1
pmilkman Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2016 Posts: 2	Metadata for form fields? I'm trying to make a re-usable onclick function for help icons that I can use for all of them. The problem I'm running into is that I can't seem to find a place to store the text for the help icon MessageBox that pops up. Bitmap doesn't have a 'text' property. Others do like Button, but I don't want the help text displaying on the button, just queryable in the onclick, and I need to have this styled like in my bitmap. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

6th September 2016, 14:36	#2
Anders Moderator Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: ${NSISDIR} Posts: 5,505	You really should provide some more information when you post questions! Is this a custom page? Plug-ins used? Anyway, if this is a nsDialogs custom page then nsDialogs has set/get functions to add some data to each control... IntOp $PostCount $PostCount + 1

6th September 2016, 18:24	#4
Anders Moderator Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: ${NSISDIR} Posts: 5,505	No I'm talking about nsDialogs::SetUserData IntOp $PostCount $PostCount + 1

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6th September 2016, 14:57	#3
pmilkman Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2016 Posts: 2	Sorry! Thanks for the reply. I'm still kind of new to NSIS (if it isn't obvious). This is a custom page using nsdialogs. Are you referring to NSD_SetText and NSD_GetText? Can these be applied to bitmaps? I haven't tried that. (In meetings for a while and can't test right away) That would definitely solve my problem. Or some other way to attach key/value information that can be queried in an onclick event handler.