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Re: windows installer and COPYING
From: jah <jah () zadkiel plus com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:24:33 +0000
Rob Nicholls wrote:
I've noticed for the first time (having used it several times without noticing) that the windows installer shows the License (COPYING) in a field which is 5 chars too small for itI'm sure most users are too busy clicking I Agree to bother reading it ;)
Aye to that! Could just have a one liner saying "For License read http://... , but we know you won't."
I suspect (but haven't checked) it's controlled by the font size in Windows (so a larger font would mean even more word wrapping going on), but you're right that a default copy of XP/Vista/2003 is displayed as seen in your screenshot (and isn't very pretty).I've had a look at nsis and can't think of any other way to sort this without creating a different executable from which the installer form derives. Maybe someone has got a better solution...Once the COPYING file in SVN has been modified (which only one of the developers can commit), the updated version should get included in all the dist files (*nix and Windows, which is why COPYING doesn't have any Windows style linebreaks) whenever Fyodor puts out a new build. The installer's license page simply displays the contents of the COPYING file that eventually gets installed in the supplied installation path, so the nsi file shouldn't require any modification. !insertmacro MUI_PAGE_LICENSE "..\..\COPYING"
Aye to that too, but what I had in mind was an nsis friendly version of COPYING with no breaks except for paragraphs and bullet lists and which would hopefully wrap inside the field at all resolution/font-size combinations. This of course would mean two versions of COPYING to maintain, but the alternative would be to always have some combination that breaks the formatting. Unless, that is, there's another alternative (like a one liner)... jah _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
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- Re: windows installer and COPYING Fyodor (Dec 21)
- Re: windows installer and COPYING jah (Dec 11)
- Re: windows installer and COPYING Rob Nicholls (Dec 11)
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