What installer is this?

tradecraft1 · 14th March 2006, 19:49

All,

I just bought IconWorkshop to do icons, they have a really nice looking installer. It looks like it could be NSIS but I cant tell. Is it possible to have a background image instead of a color on the MUI pages?

I've attached a screen shot for refernce. I hope its not InstallShield!

--C

kichik · 14th March 2006, 20:08

The trial version installer doesn't use NSIS, so I guess the full version doesn't either. You can make sure by searching the file for NullsoftInst.

It's possible to have such a background picture, but it'll require some work. You can edit the INI file used to show the welcome page in the pre callback function. In there you can add an image control. Then, in the show callback function you can set the background of all the text controls to transparent.

tradecraft1 · 14th March 2006, 20:31

Thanks for the information. Do pages other than Welcome / Finish use .ini files? I would like to have the same image on all the pages.

Thanks again,

--C

kichik · 14th March 2006, 20:44

No, built-in pages aren't custom and don't use InstallOptions which uses INI files. To add an image to built-in pages, you'd have to edit the UI file (Contrib\UIs\modern.exe) and add image place holders to it, use the new one with MUI_UI and then set the image manually using the System plug-in. An example is available on the wiki.

Anders · 15th March 2006, 00:06

I think its their own in-house setup app

eyeinthesky43 · 15th March 2006, 05:50

Yeah I have IconWorkshop and the installer is pretty nice. You could use ExperinceUI for Nsis to get a somewhat similar looking installer.

Brummelchen · 15th March 2006, 07:05

ROFL - neither nor - it's an SFX-CAB - try to open it with Winrar or Winace
it contains multiple languages and is based on microsoft cab architecture
but i can not say which software they use

Anders · 16th March 2006, 00:50

the fact that it uses CAB's doesnt really narrow it down, it contains a section named AXZB (doesnt proove much) also looking at the dialogs in resource hacker you can see that some strings are auto replaced with some value, eg {AppName}, but the string "Thank you for choosing Axialis Software!" is hard-coded which leads me to believe its in-house, I guess you could just send a mail and ask if you really need to know

14th March 2006, 20:08	#2
kichik M.I.A. [NSIS Dev, Mod] Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Israel Posts: 11,336	The trial version installer doesn't use NSIS, so I guess the full version doesn't either. You can make sure by searching the file for NullsoftInst. It's possible to have such a background picture, but it'll require some work. You can edit the INI file used to show the welcome page in the pre callback function. In there you can add an image control. Then, in the show callback function you can set the background of all the text controls to transparent. NSIS FAQ \| NSIS Home Page \| Donate $ "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." -- Confucius

14th March 2006, 20:44	#4
kichik M.I.A. [NSIS Dev, Mod] Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Israel Posts: 11,336	No, built-in pages aren't custom and don't use InstallOptions which uses INI files. To add an image to built-in pages, you'd have to edit the UI file (Contrib\UIs\modern.exe) and add image place holders to it, use the new one with MUI_UI and then set the image manually using the System plug-in. An example is available on the wiki. NSIS FAQ \| NSIS Home Page \| Donate $ "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." -- Confucius

15th March 2006, 00:06	#5
Anders Moderator Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: ${NSISDIR} Posts: 2,775	I think its their own in-house setup app IntOp $PostCount $PostCount + 1

15th March 2006, 07:05	#7
Brummelchen Major Dude Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 676	ROFL - neither nor - it's an SFX-CAB - try to open it with Winrar or Winace it contains multiple languages and is based on microsoft cab architecture but i can not say which software they use Greets, Brummelchen

16th March 2006, 00:50	#8
Anders Moderator Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: ${NSISDIR} Posts: 2,775	the fact that it uses CAB's doesnt really narrow it down, it contains a section named AXZB (doesnt proove much) also looking at the dialogs in resource hacker you can see that some strings are auto replaced with some value, eg {AppName}, but the string "Thank you for choosing Axialis Software!" is hard-coded which leads me to believe its in-house, I guess you could just send a mail and ask if you really need to know IntOp $PostCount $PostCount + 1

14th March 2006, 20:31	#3
tradecraft1 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2	Thanks for the information. Do pages other than Welcome / Finish use .ini files? I would like to have the same image on all the pages. Thanks again, --C

15th March 2006, 05:50	#6
eyeinthesky43 Junior Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 28	Yeah I have IconWorkshop and the installer is pretty nice. You could use ExperinceUI for Nsis to get a somewhat similar looking installer.

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