Uncommon UI layout for Windows installer for Techsmith Snagit

Question

Does anyone know which windows installer/packager TechSmith Snagit v12 uses? The UI layout of the installer doesn\'t look like standard Windows Installer.

Answer 1

This is not a native Windows Installer UI. It is an EXE bootstrapper which handles the UI, that maybe under the hood is running an MSI to perform the actual, but this is not mandatory.

Packages with such an GUI can be built with Advanced Installer too, using the Surface theme. You can have different colors, below is an example on black.

Answer 2

As Bogdan already has explained, this is a small application that handles the GUI part of an installation suite (several installations in sequence as a bundle). MSI has a feature to allow an external GUI via its MsiSetExternalUI function. This way you can handle messages returned from the Windows Installer engine yourself inside your own GUI - this includes the progress bar. Here is a technical example.

You might also want to check the Wix Toolkit's Burn feature.

UPDATE: WIX Installer with modern look and feel