1.3 Feature List

  • Generates self contained executable installers
  • Support for ZLIB, BZIP2 and LZMA data compression (files can be compressed individually or together)
  • Uninstall support (installer can generate an uninstaller)
  • Customizable user interface (dialogs, fonts, backgrounds, icons, text, checkmarks, images etc.)
  • Classic and Modern wizard interface
  • Fully multilingual, support for multiple languages in one installer. More than 60 translations are available, but you can also create your own. Unicode support allowing even more languages.
  • Page system: You can add standard wizard pages or custom pages
  • User selection of installation components, tree for component selection
  • Multiple install configurations (usually Minimal, Typical, Full), and custom configuration
  • Installer self-verification using a CRC32 checksum
  • Small overhead over compressed data size (34 KB with default options)
  • Ability to display a license agreement in text or RTF format
  • Ability to detect destination directory from the registry
  • Easy to use plug-in system (lots of plug-ins for creation of custom dialogs, internet connections, HTTP downloading, file patching, Win32 API calls etc. are included)
  • Installers can be as large as 2GB
  • Optional silent mode for automated installations
  • A preprocessor with support for defined symbols, macro's, conditional compilation, standard predefines
  • A lovely coding experience with elements of PHP and assembly (includes user variables, a stack, real flow control, etc.)
  • Installers have their own VMs that let you write code that can support:
  • File extraction (with configurable overwrite parameters)
  • File/directory copying, renaming, deletion, searching
  • Plug-in DLL calling
  • DLL/ActiveX control registration/deregistration
  • Executable execution (shell execute and wait options)
  • Shortcut creation
  • Registry key reading/setting/enumerating/deleting
  • INI file reading/writing
  • Generic text file reading/writing
  • Powerful string and integer manipulation
  • Window finding based on class name or title
  • User interface manipulation (font/text setting)
  • Window message sending
  • User interaction with message boxes or custom pages
  • Branching, comparisons, etc.
  • Error checking
  • Reboot support, including delete or rename on reboot
  • Installer behaviour commands (such as show/hide/wait/etc)
  • User functions in script
  • Callback functions for user actions
  • Completely free for any use. See license.