Inno Setup Form Designer Tutorial !

hi there Guys !

i need to customize a innosetup form with ** Inno Setup Form Designer **

but i dont know much about it ....

can u give me some Brief instructions ?

is there a Tutorial about it somewhere on the WEB ?

any help would be appreciated ...

bye !

What do you need to know ? What sort of things do you need to do ?
I have the basics of inno.
Desktop and quick launch shortcuts, registry, folders, files and icons

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Originally Posted by polecat

What do you need to know ? What sort of things do you need to do ?
I have the basics of inno.
Desktop and quick launch shortcuts, registry, folders, files and icons

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hi there

thanks for reply...

dear friend !

i know most of innosetup compiler basics....

in fact ... i can easily make setup for apps with innosetup with most of details...

but.... i want to DESIGN a Form with ** inno setup form designer **( for example : inserting a bitmap into a form ) & insert it into my compiled setup...

can u give the tutorial ?

from designing a form with BITMAP with inno setup form designer until inserting it into innosetup...

i need this info :

1.how to design a form with BITMAP with inno setup form designer ?
2.how to insert this made form into innosetup & compile it ?
( instruction + needed codes )

i dont know the needed codes ... can u give me this info ?

sorry if my english is bad !

I think I understand you want custom wizard images?

The one on the left side is 164 x 314 .bmp
top right is 55 x 55 .bmp

you can do these as 4, 8 ,16 ,24 bit depth.

Create your new images and in the setup section add

Code:

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[Setup]
WizardSmallImageFile=C:\path\to\mysmallimage.bmp
WizardImageFile=C:\path\to\image.bmp

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Hope that is what you want...

You cant add a image to your FORM background.
Well you can but here's the trick because I had the same problem.

The form designer does NOT let you EMBED an image and use it at runtime, but rather you need to EXTRACT your image, say to the TEMP folder and load the image to your BG.

To show the page, something like this in your code:

procedure InitializeWizard();
begin
CustomForm_CreatePage(wpWelcome);
end;


But the FORM Designer gives you the code you need, so you just need to copy and paste this in to your inno script. or use ISTool to simplify things.

Where can you download Inno Setup Form Designer? The link on Inno's site is dead? If anyone can help please post a download link. Thanks.

Here Inno 3rd Party files page
But yes the forms designer site is closed.

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Originally Posted by some1uk03

You cant add a image to your FORM background.
Well you can but here's the trick because I had the same problem.

The form designer does NOT let you EMBED an image and use it at runtime, but rather you need to EXTRACT your image, say to the TEMP folder and load the image to your BG.

To show the page, something like this in your code:

procedure InitializeWizard();
begin
CustomForm_CreatePage(wpWelcome);
end;


But the FORM Designer gives you the code you need, so you just need to copy and paste this in to your inno script. or use ISTool to simplify things.

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thanks Dear some1uk03 ....

& sorry for my big delay....

your explanation are good but i am not so professional in this things !!!

can u give me a sample script for embedding a bmp into setup ? please ?
( I mean the .iss file including the codes )

i just need a tiny hint ... then i will figure out the process....

upload the sample script on somewhere & give me the link ... PLZ ?

for example i need to put a bmp ( my favorite Picture ) on Installing page of setup (wpInstalling) ?

can u give me the scripts ?

plz ?

any help would be appreciated....

First make sure you have ISTool, to simplify your life with Inno. Its a GUI version for inno lets say.

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Originally Posted by amin fear

for example i need to put a bmp ( my favorite Picture ) on Installing page of setup (wpInstalling) ?

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You mean the picture on the left ?
If so then, in the Setup section add this:

Code:

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[Setup]
WizardImageFile=Setup_Image.bmp
WizardSmallImageFile=Setup_Image_SMALL.bmp

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Or you want a whole BG picture ?
If so then, I'll see what I can do tomorrow because im not on my working machine...

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Originally Posted by some1uk03

First make sure you have ISTool, to simplify your life with Inno. Its a GUI version for inno lets say.




You mean the picture on the left ?
If so then, in the Setup section add this:

Code:

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[Setup]
WizardImageFile=Setup_Image.bmp
WizardSmallImageFile=Setup_Image_SMALL.bmp

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Or you want a whole BG picture ?
If so then, I'll see what I can do tomorrow because im not on my working machine...

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hi ...

about the first :

Code:

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[Setup]
WizardImageFile=Setup_Image.bmp
WizardSmallImageFile=Setup_Image_SMALL.bmp

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no ... i know most of simple directives like this in innosetup.....

about the second :

Code:

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Or you want a whole BG picture ?

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i think yes... but its a little differ...

anyway just download this movie & watch it....

DL LINK :

HTML Code:

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http://rapidshare.com/files/206334296/Help.zip.html

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then you will find out my purpose....

& if you got my meaning...try to make a movie like this...
but if its hard for you ...forget it & just give me some instruction & also the SAMPLE script....

Ok, I've had a look at your vid.

The 1st image I don't think its possible, because that's the installation page. Or it may be possible, but I don't know how to edit or add it there.

But you can do it on the page after, as in your 2nd image.

I've made a quick example, which should help you figure it out... it also has comments on the code...

Click on the setup to see it working or just explore the code..

http://rapidshare.com/files/20718156..._Test.rar.html