Make components page more usable?

[asmaloney]

On my components page, the info that the user wants to interact with (the components) is squished by a whole bunch of wasted space:

How do I turn off the left image for a page?

Alternatively, how do I fix the layout so the components use the space better?

(I started with this example from NsisMultiUser. )

[SuperPat45]

You have some option to customize theUI according the documentationi:

To hide the left image:
!define UMUI_NOLEFTIMAGE

To change the component page layout, one of:
!define MUI_COMPONENTSPAGE_SMALLDESC
!define MUI_COMPONENTSPAGE_NODESC
!define UMUI_COMPONENTSPAGE_BIGDESC

You also can create your own UI by coping and editing the resource executable:

NSIS\Contrib\UIs\UltraModernUI\UltraModern.exe

with a tool like Resource Hacker.
You can remove or change position of all components of "standard" NSIS pages.

Finally, define MUI_UI to point to your edited version with this declaration to your script:
!define MUI_UI "MyUMUI.exe"

If you need more support, ask to the NSIS forum

[asmaloney]

Ah - I didn't see UMUI_NOLEFTIMAGE because it wasn't next to UMUI_UNLEFTIMAGE_BMP in the docs :-) That just turns it off for the whole thing - not one page - and it doesn't fix the squished layout.

I thought I'd tried the other options you mention, but I guess I had them defined too late in the script. Once I move them up they have an effect. I can make do with UMUI_COMPONENTSPAGE_BIGDESC instead of adding more things for me to maintain by hacking the exe :-)

Merci pour l'aide!