VCL Styles for Inno Setup
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This plugin (dll) allow to skin the installers created by Inno setup. The current size of the plugin is about 1.6 mb, but when is included (and compressed) in the script only add ~500 Kb to the final installer.
Installation
The installer for the plugin includes 30+ VCL Styles, a set of wizard images and samples inno scripts. To install just follow the installer instructions.
How to use it
In order to use the plugin you must follow these steps
Add the VclStylesinno.dll file to your inno setup script and the VCL Style file (skin) to use.
Import the function LoadVCLStyleW for Unicode versions of Inno setup or the LoadVCLStyleA method for the Ansi version
Import the function UnLoadVCLStyles
In the InitializeSetup function extract the style to use and call the LoadVCLStyle method passing the name of the style file
Finally in the DeinitializeSetup function call the UnLoadVCLStyles method.
Check the next sample script
[Files]
Source: ..\VclStylesinno.dll; DestDir: {app}; Flags: dontcopy
Source: ..\Styles\Amakrits.vsf; DestDir: {app}; Flags: dontcopy
[Code]
// Import the LoadVCLStyle function from VclStylesInno.DLL
procedure LoadVCLStyle(VClStyleFile: String); external 'LoadVCLStyleW@files:VclStylesInno.dll stdcall';
// Import the UnLoadVCLStyles function from VclStylesInno.DLL
procedure UnLoadVCLStyles; external 'UnLoadVCLStyles@files:VclStylesInno.dll stdcall';
function InitializeSetup(): Boolean;
begin
ExtractTemporaryFile('Amakrits.vsf');
LoadVCLStyle(ExpandConstant('{tmp}\Amakrits.vsf'));
Result := True;
end;
procedure DeinitializeSetup();
begin
UnLoadVCLStyles;
end;
In order to skin the uninstaller you must use a script like this.
#define VCLStylesSkinPath "{localappdata}\VCLStylesSkin"
[Files]
Source: ..\VclStylesinno.dll; DestDir: {#VCLStylesSkinPath}; Flags: uninsneveruninstall
Source: ..\Styles\Amakrits.vsf; DestDir: {#VCLStylesSkinPath}; Flags: uninsneveruninstall
[Code]
// Import the LoadVCLStyle function from VclStylesInno.DLL
procedure LoadVCLStyle(VClStyleFile: String); external 'LoadVCLStyleW@files:VclStylesInno.dll stdcall setuponly';
procedure LoadVCLStyle_UnInstall(VClStyleFile: String); external 'LoadVCLStyleW@{#VCLStylesSkinPath}\VclStylesInno.dll stdcall uninstallonly';
// Import the UnLoadVCLStyles function from VclStylesInno.DLL
procedure UnLoadVCLStyles; external 'UnLoadVCLStyles@files:VclStylesInno.dll stdcall setuponly';
procedure UnLoadVCLStyles_UnInstall; external 'UnLoadVCLStyles@{#VCLStylesSkinPath}\VclStylesInno.dll stdcall uninstallonly';
function InitializeSetup(): Boolean;
begin
ExtractTemporaryFile('Amakrits.vsf');
LoadVCLStyle(ExpandConstant('{tmp}\Amakrits.vsf'));
Result := True;
end;
procedure DeinitializeSetup();
begin
UnLoadVCLStyles;
end;
function InitializeUninstall: Boolean;
begin
Result := True;
LoadVCLStyle_UnInstall(ExpandConstant('{#VCLStylesSkinPath}\Amakrits.vsf'));
end;
procedure DeinitializeUninstall();
begin
UnLoadVCLStyles_UnInstall;
end;
Home:
https://code.google.com/p/vcl-styles-plugins/wiki/VCLStylesInnoSetup