How can i have some items selected

[colornokia]

I always need to have two items selected for installation, so is it possible that they can stay always selected even when i change the default installation selection to none. Regards

[Kelsenellenelvian]

That is what the "Force" option is for...

[colornokia]

Hmmm,I think that i made this long time ago. The syntax is forc[pn]=['yes'], is it OK? I just cut off my config so i left only the 2 items which I need to be selected always and a dummy one (MS office). Here it is the config.

config.js

[Kelsenellenelvian]

Yup you got it right...

[colornokia]

However I can't make it working. I just added my config to a non touched wpi 5.2 and i get the result on the screenshot below

Is this my fault or something else?

[Kelsenellenelvian]

As long as you have selected force installation on exit in the menu it will install them, it may not show them checked but it will install them...

[colornokia]

It's just exiting... very strange indeed

Just tried mritter's config (there are 2 forced installations there) and when i select none and press install there is no installation windows. Now i don't know what to think...

[sadicq]

Make sure the force checkbox is cheked in options.

[colornokia]

Make sure the force checkbox is cheked in options.

Thanks, that made it! I hope that i didn't take much your time.

[zorphnog]

Please look at http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=80015 for updated enhancement

Ok. This was really bothering me that it was unchecking the programs that were going to install by default anyway. In my opinion this is a bug, the user should not be able to uncheck an item that is going to install no matter what. So I made a fix that will not uncheck the programs that have the FORCE option set. Additionally, it will not uncheck the FORCED programs when Select None is clicked. This way the user KNOWS that these programs are going to be installed. This would also help out with the overall interface. Now there is no need for the Force installations on exit option, because the FORCED programs will never become unchecked. I hope this is useful. I haven't tested it extensively, so let me know if there are any problems. The two files changed are Check.js and Boxes.js. If you want to know what I changed let me know and I'll post the individual changes.

edit: Well actually the installation on exit is still useful so disregard that comment.

Changes:

In boxes.js modify lines 139 and 144 from the original 5.2 boxes.js file to:

txt += 'onclick="checkDeps(' + i + '); checkCategory(' + i + '); checkForce(' + i + ')"';

In check.js make the following changes:

1. In the setUnchecked function add

if (forc[i]!=null && forc[i]=='yes')
	return;

in the else clause after

if (elem==null) 
	return;

2. Add the following function:

function checkForce(i)
{
	position="check.js";	
	whatfunc="checkForce()";

	var elem = document.getElementById("chkbox"+i);

	if(forc[i]!=null && forc[i]=='yes')
		elem.checked='yes';
}

Edited August 3, 2006 by zorphnog