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Originally Posted by JacksMafia

ok first thanks so much REV0 for this tutorials i really understood much from it
but i'm still beginner in this so you'll have to bear me for a while
1.i already got video and insert it in to setup.cab no problem in this but when installation start there is no audio but the video works ok and the menu music works fine too .i found video in setup.cab and i replaced it-deleted my video-and it worked fine so what i do wrong?

2.i need you to tell me what's the best compression ratio for internal installation i now use this

Compression=lzma2/ultra64
;ExtraDiskSpaceRequired={#ExtraNeedSize}
LZMADictionarySize=65536
CompressionThreads=3
LZMANumFastBytes=273
SolidCompression=yes
LZMAUseSeparateProcess=yes

is this the best of it?

3. after game installed if i run the dvd again it doesn't detect that the game is installed meaning that the play button is not active why is that? the game i try to install doesn't have key in registry by default so i create a simple key for it have a look on it

[Registry]
Root: HKLM; SubKey: "SOFTWARE\THQ\DoW2 CR"; ValueName: UninstallString; ValueData: {uninstallexe}; ValueType: string; Flags: UninsDeleteKey;

is that right? or i have to do something else?

that's all for now

thanks for advise

1. It could be encode error

2. yes, lzma2/ultra 64 is the strongest compression for internal setups

3. Because INNO has it's own regkeys so it will detect that game is not installed, that's normal.

And like i stated in tutorial, DO NOT play with Subkey.

In every case, subkey will look like this:

ok new question i will use external compressor but i still need the command line for compress a folder that contains a lot of sub-folders
so what to write ? cause if i wrote the path for it followed by \. it compress the contents but not the folders -files only- i need to know what code to write so it compress not just the files in the main game folder but also the folders in it which surly contains data
here is what i did

arc a -ep -w.\ .\Disk1\Data1.bin -msrep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc1000:lc8 "%choice1%\*" -x"%choice1%\GameAssets"
if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto arcfail

this will exclude GameAssets folder and should compress every thing else but it only compress the other files in the main folder but not the other folders

thanks for advise

You have to separate bin files for each folder. You cant compress 2 folder and it's contents i believe.

Have you ever tried -r parameter?! ;)

Well, i'm not God, i cant know everything, i said 'i believe' not 'i know'. Also i didnt use precomp srep until now. So thanks for saying -r parameter, maybe you can also tell us where to put it so i can update tutorial thread ;)

Cheers

Nevermind, found it

Sorry REV0, it didn't want to be a critical! :(
I expressed it badly, i was in a hurry! :)

ok guys let get in the middle here i have tried using -r command but it didn't done the job for me :( and here is what i mean
http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/1434/17104825.jpg

as you see in the image there is files and folder compressed in the .bin file the problem is the folder
Assets contains sub-folders ArchiveDesign and Maps which are compressed out of the Assets folder......!!!! :confused:
also the files inside these sub-folders are compressed out of them .......!!! :confused:
these files should be inside these sub-folders and these sub-folders should be inside the Assets folder
here the command i used

arc a -ep -r -w.\ .\Disk2\Data2.bin -msrep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc1000:lc8 "%choice1%\Assets"
if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto arcfail

you will notice that i used -r command which gives me the same result if i didn't use it and write at the end of the command \. to be like this

arc a -ep -w.\ .\Disk2\Data2.bin -msrep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc1000:lc8 "%choice1%\Assets\."
if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto arcfail


so help please :)

you'll use -r, -x, -n values between lc8 and ''choice1 in my TDU2 conversion.

If you used BAMSE's, the one i gave in tutorial thread, you'll use them instead -w.

So, both of bat files are different. I suggest to start from BAMSE's, so make thing easier as beginning.

For test, with fake files:
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/4...atitolo1yk.png

:)

JacksMafia your problem is -ep instead of -ep1
Have a nice day :p

Hum.. -ep1 compress the content of the root folder and NOT the root folder itself.
I mean
http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/867...atitolo1er.png

the working code is

arc a -r -ep1 -w.\ .\Disk1\Data1.bin -msrep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc1000:lc8 "%choice1%\*" -x"%choice1%\GameAssets\*"
if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto arcfail


thanks guys for helping me :):D

ok guys here is another problem i got when moving on to 2 step
GameAssets folder contains 4 sub-folders i need to compress 2 of them to be .bin file and the other 2 to another .bin file
i used the code above but i ended with strange result which is compressing the GameAssets folder in the first bin file which i excluded it in the code like you see above and the compress the contents of the GameAssets folder
to another bin file
you see here that GameAssets folder exist and-it's not visible here-it's sub-folders too and it's empty
http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/1885/58250068.jpg

and here is the contents of one of the sub-folders in the other bin file
http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/9198/46860793.jpg


so help pleaseeeeeeeeeee:)

HI.....

how to add in this script to install directx , visual c++ can choose on installation screen

bin them separately, then. It total there will be 4 bin file for each of them. Then you can edit setup.ini like described in tutorial thread

They're already there. If you're asking for another conversion refer this thread:

http://www.fileforums.com/showthread.php?t=93191

Hi....me again
this can run program.msi or not??

Launcher will run .msi, exe files, however in compiling, it will not create msi extension setups.

yes you can run MSI from script.

I don't understand your problem! :confused:
If you want to exclude GameAssets folder you need something like this
:confused:

the launch he's refering to is the one to run directx, vcredist, etc ( it will run a MSI file just fine ) it doesnt create a msi setup, but includes the command to run the msi file within the setup.exe. ( it's in the setup.ini, remember ?! :) )

Yep, i know first time i read his post i thought he was asking how to create setup.msi..

Too much work, too little time; brain cell overheat

yeah i know this must be confusing i want to exclude GameAssets from first bin and on the 2 step compress 2 folders located in the GameAssets folder and 3 step the other 2 in GameAssets folder
that's all meaning 3 bin files .:D
that's all but i still have the problem i described up there

any help?!!!! :)

to make it easier for yourself, run the bat file for bins 2 & 3 only, set the choice command beforehand

IE: set choice1=x:\Gamename\GameAssets\

this way the default folder is the GameAssets subfolder, then you can add the folders you dont want to include in the bin2/bin3 archives.

-x"%choice1%\subfolder1\*", -x"%choice1%\subfolder2\*".... this will create the archive you want without those 2 subfolder NOT in bin2 archive, same for bin3 archive but reverse the 2 subfolders of course.

Hi Revo.
Congratulation for this tutorial of Inno Setup.

How can i make text box transparent (Welcome to the blá blá) on Inno Setup?

See the example below.
Attachment 3712

Thanks in advance.

Andre Jesus it's just PNG with some transparency (setup.cab\setup\textbg.png)

Also, you can use same TextBG.png just resize it via setup.ini

delete TextBG.png from Setup.cab

thanks you very much pakrat2k2 for advise it worked for me
but i still have problem in installing the game i used this code for compressing

arc a -r -ep1 -w.\ .\Disk1\Data3.bin -mprecomp042:v+srep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc100 0:lc8 "%choice1%\*"
if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto arcfail

which means that i used precomp and srep in compressing -long time to do it i know- now when i install the game what code should i write in setup.ini?
i use this
FreeArcFile3={src}\Data3.bin;DestDir:{app}\GameAss ets;Disk:1;PrecSrep:1;Lang:en

but when installer reach for bin 3 it just freeze and don't do any thing should precomp be in setup.cab ? or what is the right code to write in setup.ini?

this the last step
helpppppppppppppp

You don't need it since it's used for old precomp+srep method. If you're compressing via commandline and in one step, then all you need is
in setup.ini

yeah i'm compressing via commandline but it's not one step this is the 3 step but only for data3 i used this
arc a -r -ep1 -w.\ .\Disk1\Data3.bin -mprecomp042:v+srep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc100 0:lc8 "%choice1%\*"
if ERRORLEVEL 1 goto arcfail

the first 2 bins just used this
-srep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc100 0:lc8
and i have tried what you said and nothing when it comes to extract the data3 it just stop no error massages or any thing else only the first 2 bins extracting perfect
i also tried
PrecompVer=0.42
didn't work
please save my day

EDIT: i have found the problem and solve it thanks every one for helping me

Thank you dears.

But my script is not based on the script Yener.
I'm doing it manually, so it needed to know how to make inno setup call this picture as the background of the text.
Is possible put this transparent background text, making a play MP3 music during the install mode, put the splash image, change the color bar progress .... only using inno setup? Or this is only possible if i based on the script Yener?

Please see attached an example of what I'm trying to do.:confused:
Attachment 3714

post how you fixed it. so others have this information, incase they run into same problem.

what the problem was?
will i can't say that i'm stupid but -anyway- i was using CI 8.3.5.1 which had precomp v 0.42 i compressed the game with it but it just stop when it comes to extracting and then i notice that new version of CI 8.5 has precomp too the same version but the size of it was different
in CI 8.3.5.1 size was 768 kb -as i remember-
in CI 8.5 size was 1.42 mb
so i took a wild guess that the error was in precomp and i start compressing again with the big one and after a lot of hours i found that i was right about precomp version there is some thing wrong about CI 8.3.5.1 and the percomp version inside it

that's all -sorry for late replay-
Jacks

i hope you are using the precomp executable inside the "include" folder for compressing using commandline...
installer gets problems if you use an other version

yeah i was using it when i did the compression -the failed one- and then i just replaced it with the new one from v 8.5
and that worked like charm
BTW thanks for your work i couldn't done this if you didn't create this great app
you really made my day mate
thanks

guys what about if a want to use 7z+ serp for compression what code should i write in bat file?
and what about arc.ini what i should write if using 7z+ serp?
also
-msrep+lzma:a1:mfbt4:d256m:fb128:mc100 0:lc8
is this the best compression serp can do? if not then what is?

thanks

Here's my question. Let's say I want to add some optional mods to my installation. How to add them to the installation and how to make backups of possible overwrited files? I'm guessing this belongs to the [Components] section but I don't have much time at the moment to experiment by myself, hence my question here :D