Customize Titles and Captions on Self-Extracting EXE Dialogs

Customize titles and captions on all self-extracting EXE dialogs.

Download Chilkat Zip ActiveX

LOCAL loZip
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL lnRecurse

loZip = CreateObject('Chilkat.Zip2')

*  Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days.
lnSuccess = loZip.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    =MESSAGEBOX(loZip.LastErrorText)
    QUIT
ENDIF

*  Initialize the zip object.  Because we're creating
*  a self-extracting EXE in this example, the filename
*  passed to NewZip will never actually be created.
lnSuccess = loZip.NewZip("notUsed.zip")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    =MESSAGEBOX(loZip.LastErrorText)
    QUIT
ENDIF

*  Append a directory tree.  The AppendFiles does
*  not read the file contents or append them to the zip
*  object in memory.  It simply appends references
*  to the files so that when WriteExe (or WriteZipAndClose,
*  or WriteZip, etc.) is called, the files are compressed
*  and added to the archive.

lnRecurse = 1
loZip.AppendFiles("c:/temp/a/*",lnRecurse)

*  The zip.ExeTitle and zip.ExeUnzipCaption properties can be
*  set to customize the title and caption for the main dialog
*  presented by the self-extracting EXE.
*  A new method (SetExeConfigParam) provides the ability
*  to set the titles and captions for all dialogs:
loZip.SetExeConfigParam("MainTitle","This is the main title")
loZip.SetExeConfigParam("MainCaption","This is the main caption")

*  A finish notification dialog is displayed if the
*  ExeFinishNotifier property is set:
loZip.ExeFinishNotifier = 1
loZip.SetExeConfigParam("FinTitle","This is the finish notifier title")
loZip.SetExeConfigParam("FinCaption","This is the finish notifier caption")

*  A password challenge dialog is shown if the EXE is encrypted.
loZip.Encryption = 4
loZip.EncryptKeyLength = 128
loZip.SetPassword("test")
loZip.SetExeConfigParam("PwTitle","This is the pasword dialog title")
loZip.SetExeConfigParam("PwCaption","This is the password dialog caption")

*  During the EXE self-extract, a progress dialog is displayed *if* the main dialog
*  is suppressed. In this example, the main dialog is not suppressed, so the
*  progress dialog is not displayed.  (A progress bar shows in the main dialog during
*  EXE extract.)
*  If a progress dialog was displayed, this is how the title and caption would be customized:
loZip.SetExeConfigParam("ProgressTitle","This is the progress dialog title")
loZip.SetExeConfigParam("ProgressCaption","This is the progress dialog caption")

*  Write "mySfx.exe"

lnSuccess = loZip.WriteExe("mySfx.exe")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    =MESSAGEBOX(loZip.LastErrorText)
    QUIT
ENDIF

=MESSAGEBOX("EXE Created!")