Ultra-Modern UI

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UltraModernUI_1.00b2 (4 MB)

Description

Version: 1.00 beta 2.

The UltraModern User Interface is an new interface with a style like the most recent installers for NSIS 2 (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System), the tool that allows programmers to create such installers for Windows. UltraModernUI and NSIS are released under an open source license.

The UltraModern User Interface also features new pages (Confirm, Abort, AlternativeStartMenu, AdditionnalTasks, Information, Maintenance, Update, StupType...). The interface and the graphics can be customized using the provided settings and the new skins system.

UltraModernUI include also an other User Interface named ModernUIEx. ModernUIEx is the same User Interface as the original Modern UI style but with the support of the new UltraModern pages and thith a little more options.

Using the UltraModern UI macros and language files, writing scripts with a ultra modern interface is easy. The documentation contains information about writing UltraModernUI scripts and a reference of all settings.

The issue of UltraModernUI was to be the most compatible with the existing Modern UI scripts. Because of it is based on the Modern UI of Joost Verburg, it use the same macro an define and provide new one.

Lastest Version Changes

• Second public beta release after more than three development years.
• UltraModernUI use the new NSIS Doc directory used since the version 2.07 and UMUI.nsh is resynchronised under Modern UI version 1.8.
• UltraModernUI includes also a second User Interface named ModernUIEx. ModernUIEx is an extended version of Modern UI but with the new UltraModern pages support.
• UltraModernUI included henceforth three plug-ins that are supported natively :

1. The SkinnedControls plugin. SkinnedScrollControls is based on the wansis plug-in of Saivert and can skin all buttons and scroll bars of your NSIS installer like the most recent installers as well as the scrollbars (only for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008).
2. The fixed version of the InstallOptionEx plugin. InstallOptionEx is writen by Diego Pedroso (deguix) and is an expanded version of InstallOptions containing many new features, with size drawback. This version, debugged by SuperPat, contain a lot of bug fixes necessary to the correct operation of some UltraModernUI pages.
3. The NSISArray plugin. This plugin, written by Afrow UK, allows the support of the array in NSIS. It comes with plenty of functions for managing your arrays. This plugin is used with the AlternativeStartMenu and MultiLanguages Pages of UltraModernUI.

• All skins were remakes and twenty skins are now available. blue, blue2, SoftBlue, red, red2, SoftRed....
• New pages are available:

1. MultiLanguage Page that can be replace the MultiLanguage Plug-in.
2. Maintenance Page with Repair, Modify, Uninstall and Continue Setup options.
3. Update Page with Update, Uninstall and Continue Setup options.
4. Information Page for viewing text and RichText files.
5. SerialNumber Page.
6. Setup Type Page with Minimal, Standard, Complete and Custom options.
7. AlternativeStartMenu Page to replace the StartMenu Plug-in. It allow to use a TreeWiew instead of the ListView and can set the ShellVarContext
8. Additional Tasks page.
9. File and Disk Request Page.

• Left Text, Left Time and LeftMessageBox functions are removed.
• And a huge number of fixes and improvements.

Credits

• Made by SuperPat

1. Based on Modern UI of Joost Verburg.
2. And inspired of the ExperienceUI of dandaman32.

• Skins by SuperPat
• UltraModern Icons and WXP BackGround skin is taken again on ExperineceUI of dandaman32.

Links

Official Website (Includes screenshots and documentation)

1.00b2 Topic

1.00b2 French Topic