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<b>Welcome to the ExperienceUI.</b><br> |
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The ExperienceUI is a new user interface for NSIS that looks like |
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the latest and greatest InstallShield® setups. The ExperienceUI supports |
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skinning the main installer window with several new picture areas, |
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and it also adds a few features to NSIS.<br> |
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You may think that because of the graphical effects, the ExperienceUI |
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requires a lot more space. If you think that, you're dead wrong. A typical |
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InstallShield® installer requires 1.43MB. Wait...if you still believe in |
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floppy disks, you definitely don't use InstallShield to install your programs, |
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unless they're under 1KB...not likely. An ExperienceUI-based installer, with |
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Welcome, License, Components, Directory, Install Confirm, File Copy, and Finish |
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pages, uses 90.9KB of space. That's under 1/10th of an identical InstallShield® |
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installer, except this one is faster, smarter, and much more friendly to dial-up |
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users.<br> |
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One of the biggest features of the ExperienceUI is the information panel |
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on the left side of the installer window. Every version of Windows Setup since 98 |
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has a counter on the left side of the screen that shows an estimated count of how |
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much time it will be until Setup completes. With the ExperienceUI, this info panel |
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can be blank, it can show an "estimated time remaining" window, and it can display |
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interactive notifications.<br> |
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All this can be accomplished with code that has already been written (and rewritten) |
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for you, so using the ExperienceUI requires very little programming experience.<br> |
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The ExperienceUI also resembles the Modern UI in the way of the symbol |
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defining method, except many of the defines are shortened, others are |
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eliminated, and many new ones have been added. Also, the ExperienceUI has |
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multi-language support that is largely based on the Modern UI's multi-language system. |
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<a name=why id=why></a> |
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<b>Why it was created</b> |
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Simply put, I created the ExperienceUI because NSIS needed a makeover. The classic NSIS look works for Winamp plugins, |
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but what about when you need to create an installer for your user experience-aimed firewall? The Modern UI provided many |
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visual enhancements for NSIS, but it was still missing something.<br> |
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I was upgrading the drivers for my NVIDIA video card one day, and I noticed that the installer used a fully skinned UI. |
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I thought to myself, "If InstallShield can look this good, NSIS can certainly look better." So, I set to work.<br> |
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At first, I modified the Modern UI. While this made scripts very easily portable, my new InstallShield-style user interface |
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seemed limited because I had started with a skinning system that did not support skinning the entire installer window. |
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Finally, I decided that I had to re-write NSIS's idea of skinning completely. The first few tests proved to be cool, but |
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there were still improvements to be made. After a lot of hard work, the InstallShield UI for NSIS (as it was called back |
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then) was ready for release.<br> |
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I posted my new UI on the forums, and within 3 hours I received replies saying, "For the design and implementation, I give |
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you 10/10! This is truly amazing!" (Afrow UK) There was a lot of work still to be done, but the first release had done its |
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Because of copyright concerns (using "InstallShield" in the product title) I decided to rename the whole thing to the |
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ExperienceUI for NSIS. I named it the ExperienceUI because it aims to redefine user experience and make software |
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installation lose its bad reputation as slow and often unsuccessful.<br> |
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Today, the ExperienceUI is a complete user experience solution, with support for multiple languages and extremely easy |
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implementation. It includes a language selection page, native support for Saivert's WAnsis skinning plugin, and other |
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enhancements too numerous to name here. All that, and it's open source.<br> |
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For a complete list of features included with the basic ExperienceUI package, |
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<a href="javascript:parent.window.location='browser.htm?url=http://xpui.sourceforge.net/index.php&sec=about&return=intro.htm%23why'">click here</a>. <font size=1>(Internet connection |
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<p class=footer>Copyright © 2004-2006 Dan Fuhry. All rights except those explicitly given in the <a href=license_agreement.htm style=color:#A0A0D0 onmouseover="this.style.color='#A0A0A0'" onmouseout="this.style.color='#A0A0D0'">license agreement</a> reserved.</p> |
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