borderless UI

Hi guys 🙂
can anyone advise how to go about having a custom installerUI that's borderless?


TIA
Chris

FWIW, I know Graphical Installer for NSIS can do it pretty easily if you're willing to pay a little money (there's a free trial).

You can do some fun stuff with Resource Hacker on the .exe's in Contrib\UIs but I don't think you can remove borders.

You can probably remove the borders and caption by playing with the window styles but why would you want to make it hard for users to move your window?

Thank you guys 🙂
i managed to do this by changing the UI style 🙂
(i am a customer of GraphicalInstaller)

i wasn't looking to make it harder to move; in fact that is a drawback atm,
i simply like the border less window style as it allows for other uses that dont resemble an installer interface,

ATB
Chris

I made a "move anywhere" plug-in a long time ago, you can try that.

Thank you Anders <3
every time i come back to work with NSIS i fall more and more in love with it!
you guys are amazing!

i will definitely be looking for that bit as it just what the doctor prescribed for this situation!
ill report back if was able to implement 🙂

ATB
Chris

i think the first challenge is proving to be finding that plugin and discussion!
I've been looking around the past few days; other than moving a window to the op corner,
i haven't found much with connection to borerless UI 🙁

if anyone comes across the "move anywhere" plugin post Anders mentiones please share 🙂


ATB
Chris

are you kidding me with this!?

how is this buried in no mans land?
this should be native in NSIS!

this is amazing!!!
Thank you Anders <3


ATB
Chris

Move anywhere probably goes against the Windows UI guidelines.

Even Microsoft does it sometimes (like the beginning of the Visual Studio installer), but in these cases they're basically a more informational splash screen; there won't be any buttons or other user input available.

I can imagine "valid" cases of this with NSIS.

with today's iphones and ipads, touch screens etc...?
imo "move anywhere" style UI are very much inline with new age multimedia UI's drag and drop anywhere lifestyle! 😉
no application i seen lately is using title bar to move a window around these days,

i am implementing a "manager" style solution with NSIS for some of our work now,
two pages; custom MUI page to select setting;
with MUI instfiles for apply settings and exiting the manager,

Anders "move anywhere" plugin makes it possible to use a borderless window which is much nicer and modern looking when implementing NSIS as standalone manager interface,
it also behave very much inline with how you'd expect such a modern UI to!


NSIS is so versatile; im dumbfounded i haven't realized this before!

ATB
Chris