What installer is this?

tradecraft1
14th March 2006 20:49 UTC

What installer is this?
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 21:08 UTC

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 21:31 UTC

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 21:44 UTC

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 01:06 UTC

I think its their own in-house setup app

eyeinthesky43
15th March 2006 06:50 UTC

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 08:05 UTC

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 01:50 UTC

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