InnoSetup - Aura Edition

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InnoSetup - Aura Edition

Hey everyone, thanks for the interest!

A few people asked about Aura Edition, so here's the full picture: it's a custom InnoSetup build, forked from InnoSetup v6.7.3, with a pretty heavy set of additions on top of stock IS:

Animation & Effects

• Custom minimize/restore window animation (replaces the default OS one)
• Fade, slide, and easing-curve transitions between wizard pages
• Frame-based sprite animation for UI components
• Shader-based effects (blur, glow, gradient overlays)
• Parallax / layered background effects

Image Manipulation

• Image cropping (rect-based and aspect-ratio constrained)
• Animated GIF support (playback inside the installer UI)
• Resizing/resampling with multiple filter modes (nearest, bilinear, etc.)
• Rounded corners, alpha/gradient overlays
• Brightness/contrast/saturation adjustment
• Image compositing & layering (stack multiple images/effects)
• PNG transparency handling
• Basic format conversion (BMP/PNG/JPG/GIF)

UI Components (Botva2-style)

• Sprite-sheet buttons
• Arc progress bars
• Custom edit controls
• Skinned listboxes
• DPI-aware scaling across all custom controls

Other

• Tamper protection against unpacking/decompiling the compiled installer
• A set of new Pascal Script functions exposing most of the above to script authors
• Several open-source third-party components integrated under the hood
• Digital signature verification hooks at install time

The catch: this build was made for a private client, so releasing the whole custom compiler as-is isn't really on the table right now.

What I can do is share a standalone plugin — AuraUI2.dll — that brings a chunk of these features (animations, image manipulation, a handful of the sprite-sheet controls) to stock, unmodified InnoSetup, called through Pascal Script. No custom compiler needed.

If there's enough interest, reply below and I'll wrap it up with a document + Pascal Script API reference and post it here.

Further down the line, once I sort out clearance on the original build, I'll look into releasing the full Aura Edition compiler itself.

Thanks.


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