Nsis Vs Installshield Scripting

Kichik 8th July 2003 15:56 UTC Well, basically InnoSetup is based on INI file while NSIS is based on a script. Though InnoSetup allows you to use VCL in it (objective Windows 'scripting' with Pascal), NSIS is entirely scripted. From extracting files, registering DLLs and writing to registry keys to showing message boxes you control the flow of anything in the installer. Both installers feature bzip2 and zlib compression. The overhead of NSIS is about 34KB, while InnoSetup's overhead is 200-300KB (I don't remember the exact number).

This means that the basic installer size of NSIS is around 34KB while in InnoSetup it's around 200-300KB. Serial Casting Technique. Both installers feature plug-in ability, though NSIS has many more plug-ins unless I have missed InnoSetup's plug-ins archive. Both installers supply a modern UI, but NSIS lets you change the UI to whatever you want. NSIS lets you add images, URLs (in the latest CVS version of InstallOptions - a plug-in), and change position and sizes of controls. NSIS is generally more customizable, or is at least built with that thought in the mind of the developers. I'll post here later if I have anything to add. I'm sure others will have something to say too.

Nsis Vs Installshield Tutorial. NSIS 2 includes a new Modern UI. DLL files, VBScript files. Script files. Select “Custom. Oct 28, 2017 - If you would like a gratis but full fledged and easy to use installer creator you will not go far wrong with. • Mature • Windows XP through Windows 8 • Custom installation • Script based so can be included in a make process, (.iss files). Forza 3 Pc Game Free Download. • Unicode Support • Custom Installer. I use both currently and prefer NSIS because of its 'scripting' ability. As an example, I've written an NSIS script that runs an automated Installshield setup.NSIS extracts the installshield files and runs the 'setup.exe /s setup.iss' or whatever. In this case, I used NSIS the same way I would use vbscript. Sep 14, 2017 - Graphical Installer Wizard for creating new and converting existing scripts. Plug-in for HM NIS Edit, Eclipse and Visual Studio, RAD Studio, Standalone application for fast creating scripts with custom design. Download Update Pemain Fifa 08 System. To be honest I was inspired by these plugins (and also by InstallShield skinned installers).

Vray For Sketchup 2014 Free Download Full Version. Kichik 8th July 2003 16:24 UTC I mean that to create a InnoSetup installer you have to write an INI script and to create a NSIS installer you have to write a script. The difference is that for InnoSetup it's usually a shopping list. Your INI file tells InnoSetup do this, then this, then this and then this. When you reach that stage do this, this and then this. You can't do two things that are not of the same type in two different sections. You can't for example tell InnoSetup to write a registry key after you extract the first file and before you extract the second file. I bet you can do it with the VCL scripting language I have told you before, but it would require converting the whole thing to work with it.

NSIS on the other hand is based on a scripting language. It means you control the flow of the installation. You combine everything in everything, check for errors and handle them yourself, use variables to store user input or values you've read from whatever source you'd like and use them for output names, message boxes and whatnot. So the difference is that in NSIS the default is full control, while in InnoSetup, though it's possible to use some sort of scripting, the default is to have minial control and just let the installer do the default in its own order.