FreeArc and Inno Setup script

[mondragon]

http://www.haskell.org/bz/FreeArc4InnoSetup.zip - support for extrcating .arc archives with progress indicator in InnoSetup installers. should be also usable for other installers and other programs that need to decompress .arc files

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Now questions/problems :
1) Can you Bulat Ziganshin or any other translate that lines from iss script:

ExtractFile.caption:='Đŕńďŕę??ęŕ ŕđőč?ŕ FreeArc';

ExtractFile.Caption:='Đŕńďŕę??ŕ?? '+IntToStr(int1)+' č? '+IntToStr(int2)+' ě? ('+FloatToStr(percents/10)+'%)';

2) Now progress bar based on size of file yes? it's possible to create progress bar based on number of files
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additional main progress bar based on files/size for all available arc archives ? (that probably easy but not for me)

3) Don'y know it's important now switches -y [yes for all queries]
(i used in sfx FA & inno to replace existing fake files), now i don't do many test to know it still important.

res := FreeArcExtract (callback, 'x', '-o+', '-dp'+destpath, '--', arcname, '', '', '', '', '');

that empty things is what ? for switches?

4) it's possible to set specific ram size when extract files - or its static and set when archive is created ?

5) Maybe some explanation about line

function FreeArcCallback (what: PAnsiChar; int1, int2: Integer; str: PAnsiChar): Integer;

int1 and int2 is for file size variables?

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Probably all that question is so stupid but im not familiar with coding ...
thanks for answers

ps
i read facompress.dll answer

[Skymmer]

Big thanks for that "addons" for inno. Im from fileforums.com/cd-2-dvd.com two most popular forum about game conversion.

Sorry for question but I'm really curious what does game conversion means?

[Bulat Ziganshin]

1) i will do it for the next version

2) i will include in the next version multi-archive script which provides overall progress indicator

3) you may see switches supported by running unarc.exe without parameteers.

empty parameters used because original C function may have any number of params but in Pascal i should decalre fixed number of params. i declared 10 ones, so the rest is filled with empy strings (one empty string is necessary to find out end of list)

4) yes, it's determined at archive creation. read docs

5) this callback is used for any intearaction of DLL with script. just now there are two types of callbacks (filename and progress), but in future more may be added

[mondragon]

Sorry for question but I'm really curious what does game conversion means?

means convert dvd9 game installer into 2xdvd5 or 1xdvd5 [sometimes not needed any additional compression but sometimes its only possibility to store onto one dvd5 specific game with original installer]

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@Bulat Ziganshin
thanks

for now i check that sfx/arc overwrite read-only files/folders without any additional parameters

edit

Enhanced Inno Setup Compiler (ver 5.2.3)

overwrite these files in the folder "Inno Setup".
1. Compil32.exe
2. Templates.dat

restools
http://restools.hanzify.org

probably all here knows that ext

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Sorry for question but I'm really curious what does game conversion means?

usually it's called REPACK. recently i've downloaded 4 or 5 repacks of 3+ gb size from local tracker and found that 100% of them compressed using fa+is!

in the ru-board forum, "how to extract fa archives?" seems to be one of the most popular questions of IS thread

[mondragon]

usually it's called REPACK. recently i've downloaded 4 or 5 repacks of 3+ gb size from local tracker and found that 100% of them compressed using fa+is!

in the ru-board forum, "how to extract fa archives?" seems to be one of the most popular questions of IS thread

you think abouy ripped games- that not used original installer

i think about modiyfing original installer to install game like in orginal but with some part recompressed in FA

1) really cannot translate that 3 words now ? :P

[Bulat Ziganshin]

ExtractFile.caption:='Extracting FreeArc archive';

ExtractFile.Caption:='Extracted '+IntToStr(int1)+' of '+IntToStr(int2)+' mb ('+FloatToStr(percents/10)+'%)';

[Bulat Ziganshin]

http://www.haskell.org/bz/FreeArc4InnoSetup.zip updated:

• full english translation
• overall progress indicator for all archives in the installation
• graceful exit when archive being extracted is corrupt

[Bulat Ziganshin]

http://www.haskell.org/bz/FreeArc4InnoSetup.zip updated

once again. some script improvements

[mondragon]

nice
see a lot of changes in script, need to relearn it again

[mondragon]

im back :P
1) cancel button- need to add warning about exiting when someone hit that cancel installation button
now simply hit break install

2) possibly to add options to read first from ini specific output extract path for specific arc/exe to unpack?
sometimes need [or someone forgot] to compress file/s with specific subfolder

[Bulat Ziganshin]

im back :P
1) cancel button- need to add warning about exiting when someone hit that cancel installation button
now simply hit break install

fixed in http://forum.ru-board.com/topic.cgi?...&limit=1&m=1#1

[Bulat Ziganshin]

latest script version

my new utility for quickly joining InnoSetup scripts, joining together standard event procedure bodies

[Bulat Ziganshin]

http://www.haskell.org/bz/FreeArc4InnoSetup.zip updated: improved extraction progress indicator

[mondragon]

thanks for the link
and the updated scripts

time for testing

[Bulat Ziganshin]

InnoSetup Script Joiner 3.0 released. New features:

• added support for joining 8 more functions (InitializeSetup NextButtonClick BackButtonClick ShouldSkipPage NeedRestart GetCustomSetupExitCode InitializeUninstall UninstallNeedRestart), combining results they are return with and/or rules (depending on function)
• documentation (Help shortcut in Start Menu)
• added 64-bit Explorer integration

[qallas]

is great.
I have a problem.
[run]
filename: {app}\decode.bat

not working.because run decode.bat after extract *.arc !!!!

right
1- extract *.arc
2- decode.bat

[Bulat Ziganshin]

not working.because run decode.bat after extract *.arc !!!!

i suggest you to ask in InnoSetup forums

[Bulat Ziganshin]

new version: FreeArc4InnoSetup3_3.zip

• 10% faster decompression
• FreeArcExtract() supports option '-wPATH'
• several bugs fixed

[Bulat Ziganshin]

reuploaded - it had minoir problem with progress indicator

[qallas]

how can I do?

[Bulat Ziganshin]

don't know, it's written by fa user. use another script from the package

[qallas]

this is FreeArc4InnoSetup3_3\FreeArc_Example-Ext.iss

[Bulat Ziganshin]

use FreeArc_Example.iss

[Bulat Ziganshin]

new version 3.4: improved memory handling for rep:1gb and fragmented memory. http://freearc.org/InnoSetup.aspx

[Bulat Ziganshin]

new version 3.5: now FreeArcExtract() can handle options -ap/-ld/-cfg plus minor bugfixes. http://freearc.org/InnoSetup.aspx

[Bulat Ziganshin]

http://code.google.com/p/isprecomp : new project that allows InnoSetup scripts to extract files processed by Precomp

[mondragon]

Polish translation of custom messages

[Languages]
Name: eng; MessagesFile: compiler:Default.isl
Name: rus; MessagesFile: compiler:Languages\Russian.isl
Name: pl; MessagesFile: compiler:Languages\polish.isl

[CustomMessages]
pl.ArcBreak=Instalacja anulowana!
pl.ArcError=Wypakowywanie zakończone błędem %1
pl.ArcBroken=Archiwum <%1> jest uszkodzone lub za mało wolnego miejsca.
pl.ArcFail=Wypakowywanie przerwane!
pl.ArcTitle=Wypakowywanie archiw?w FreeArc...
pl.StatusInfo=Pliki: %1%2, postęp %3%%, pozostały czas %4
pl.ArcInfo=archiwum: %1 z %2, rozmair %3 z %5, %4%% zakończone
pl.ArcFinish=Wypakowane archiwa: %1, uzyskane pliki: %2 [%3]
pl.taskbar=%1%%, %2 pozostało
pl.ending=kończenie
pl.hour=godziny
pl.min=minuty
pl.sec=sekundy

And i check lastest script and it works much more stable than older version.

possible to add custom extract place based on name of file or reading custom extract place from external ini ?

[notifier]

Hello!
Can somebody help me?
I tried Inno+Freearc script but I have some problem with it:
This is my script: http://www.mediafire.com/?imn32izwzyt

When I try to run the decompress stops with error: -1
The archive is fine, not damaged.
I tried the latest script too, but it's stoped working when the decompress starts.

And an other problem: when I try compress with freearc 0.60 To ultra (1GB ram required) the compression ratio is 0%

Can somebody send me a proper script, or tell what am I do wrong?
Thanks!

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Polish translation of custom messages

10x, i've added it to SVN version and it will be in the next release

possible to add custom extract place based on name of file or reading custom extract place from external ini ?

yes, if you know Pascal

when I try compress with freearc 0.60 To ultra (1GB ram required) the compression ratio is 0%

it may be incompressible data, how it's compressed with zip and so?