Thanks Johannes!

You're welcome!

I had an idea: Do you think it would be possible to add defaults for those new parameters for backwards-compatibility (so that existing .iss files that use CreateCustomForm() without arguments continue to work)?

I’m not sure which script would benefit from that change, even if having such defaults were possible. Every script would need to set at least one of these values, right? Prior to version 6.6, this was accomplished by setting properties after calling CreateCustomForm. However, those properties are now read-only, since CreateCustomForm itself now requires these values up front.

So even if there was a CreateCustomForm without arguments, the script would still break because it would try to set read-only properties.

Are you suggesting that you think there were scripts which called CreateCustomForm without setting any of the four properties? Or perhaps that this was the case for your own script?

So even if there was a CreateCustomForm without arguments, the script would still break because it would try to set read-only properties.

Hmm. I had not thought about that. It's just a little sad that existing .iss scripts have to be updated just to get the benefits of the new version...

Yes, I agree and always aim to maintain backward compatibility whenever possible, but I did not see a good way to achieve that in this case. When you start using features like CreateCustomForm, you get closer to the internal workings.

The change should be straightforward though. Should the help file explain more?

Should the help file explain more?

Maybe an example could help, something like:

• The signature of the CreateCustomForm function has changed in InnoSetup v6.6.0, it now requires the width and height to be specified upfront (they are now read-only properties once the form is constructed). That is, if your code looked like this before:

  Form:=CreateCustomForm;
  Form.Caption:='My custom form';
  Form.ClientWidth:=ScaleX(500);
  Form.ClientHeight:=ScaleY(256);

  starting with InnoSetup v6.6.0, it needs to look like this instead:

  Form:=CreateCustomForm(ScaleX(500), ScaleY(256), False, False);
  Form.Caption:='My custom form';

Thanks 👍

Thanks 👍

Of course!

Any word when this will hit https://jrsoftware.org/ishelp/index.php?topic=isxfunc_createcustomform?

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Thank you!