FMXBridge — Modern FireMonkey UI for Inno Setup (Announcement)

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CPI v7.0

• - Dark/Light UI Overlay
• - Customizable Accent Color
• - Customizable Text and Shadow Colors
• - Background Music (optional)
• - Autorun Interface (can be disabled)
• - Lockscreen (can be disabled)
• - FMX-based Installer and Uninstaller UI
• - File Hash Verification
• - Extraction powered by ISArcEx.dll 0.5.0.0

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FMXBridge
An Open-Source Project for Inno Setup
Explore new possibilities for modern installer interfaces

Hello everyone!

Some of you may have seen videos demonstrating modern, Liquid-style interfaces and custom installer windows. These demonstrations are part of my own project, FMXBridge, which brings Delphi FireMonkey (FMX) to Inno Setup.

FMXBridge began as an independent project after development of FMXInno was discontinued. The goal is to continue exploring the possibilities of FMX for creating modern, highly customized installer interfaces.

FMXBridge is now OPEN SOURCE!

The project is publicly available on GitHub, including its source code and examples. You can explore the implementation, try the examples, adapt them to your own projects, and help improve the framework.

What can you do with FMXBridge?

• Create custom installer interfaces using Delphi FireMonkey.
• Experiment with modern visual styles and custom forms.
• Explore multimedia and other possibilities beyond the standard Inno Setup wizard.
• Study the source code and use the available examples as a starting point for your own projects.
• Report bugs, suggest new features, share ideas, and contribute to development.

Join the development and discussion

FMXBridge is an open project, and feedback from other developers is welcome. If you are interested in the implementation, have ideas for new features, or want to discuss technical details directly with the author, I encourage you to join the project's community discussions on Telegram and the Krinkels forum.

You can find the repository by searching GitHub for FMXBridge by audiofeel.

Explore it. Test it. Build something with it.

The source code is open, the examples are available, and contributions are welcome.

Developer: audiofeel

https://github.com/audiofeel/FMXBridge

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FMXPixie — HTML/CSS Interfaces for Inno Setup

A DLL library for creating custom installer interfaces with Delphi FMX and the Pixie HTML rendering engine.

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About FMXPixie

FMXPixie is a DLL library that brings HTML-based user interfaces to Inno Setup.

It allows you to build custom installer layouts using HTML and CSS while keeping installation logic and setup operations in Inno Setup itself.

The library provides a way to create modern, customized installer interfaces without building every visual element as a separate FMX control.

Features

• HTML content loading with support for a base URL.
• CSS styling, classes, and dynamic element modification.
• Element interaction, mouse hover, and click event handling.
• DOM element selection and manipulation.
• Zoom and scrolling control.
• Customizable scrollbars.
• PNG and PDF export.
• Additional FMX-based controls, including SVG, tag bar, and Markdown views.

Integration

FMXPixie is designed to work with Inno Setup through a DLL and a Pascal Script wrapper.

The FMX interface runs separately from the standard Inno Setup wizard interface, allowing you to build a custom presentation while using Inno Setup for the installation process.

Requirements

Windows and a compatible Inno Setup environment. Use the appropriate DLL build for your target architecture.

Downloads and Examples

The release package, integration files, and example projects will be published as separate archives in the posts below.

Check the subsequent posts in this thread for available downloads and demonstrations.

Project Status

FMXPixie is an open-source project. The included examples demonstrate different ways to use the library and integrate custom interfaces into Inno Setup.

Feedback and Discussion

Questions, bug reports, suggestions, and examples of your own implementations are welcome in this thread.

When reporting a problem, please include the FMXPixie version, your Windows version, and a description of the issue.

[Fak Eid]

Absolutely amazing work. Open Setup, Yuwiz and Corepack looks clean and renewed. I download from Git Repo but it seems FMXBridge.dll is missing. Can you help?

[audiofeel]

Originally Posted by Fak Eid

Absolutely amazing work. Open Setup, Yuwiz and Corepack looks clean and renewed. I download from Git Repo but it seems FMXBridge.dll is missing. Can you help?

Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, 1.1.1.1 is blocked by some ISPs depending on the region, so I'm not here very often.

FMXBridge has received many updates, but I believe most things can be figured out by studying the examples and the FMXBridgeHandle.iss file.

[Fak Eid]

Hello audiofeel,

Can you please add FNewINI from FMX Inno. Most of my installers are dependent on that and I do not want to modify the whole code.
Can you please also add FExitMsg from FMX Inno or something similar?
the Blur Rectangle example seems different from the YT video. The example doesn't look like Liquid OS style as compared to the YT video. Can you please share the script from YT video.

[audiofeel]

Originally Posted by Fak Eid

Hello audiofeel,

Can you please add FNewINI from FMX Inno. Most of my installers are dependent on that and I do not want to modify the whole code.
Can you please also add FExitMsg from FMX Inno or something similar?
the Blur Rectangle example seems different from the YT video. The example doesn't look like Liquid OS style as compared to the YT video. Can you please share the script from YT video.

As for FExitMsg... You can implement all of this yourself as your own separate component, because everything you need to implement it is already inside Handle.iss. I think that’s a plus.
As for Blur Rectangle, it’s not an example of Liquid Glass; it’s in another example, Example_GlassRectangle.iss.
As for FNewINI, it doesn’t even exist yet.

[Fak Eid]

Sorry, I'm having trouble adding FXitMsg to Handle.iss myself. Seems like I'm doing something wrong. Can you please add these two supports FNewINI and FExitMsg to FMXBridge