Is it possible to add HTML form in Inno setup? - inno-setup

Question

I have created a custom installer for a game. I need to update version of my installer with a new feature. The game needs to register to play online. So I need to embed register form from web page (or use HTML codes directly into Inno Setup pages after installation done. So people doesn't need to visit page and able to register play online via Inno Setup.

Answer 1

Create a new page in installer with embedded browser in it.
I recommend to use this component: https://code.google.com/p/inno-web-browser/
Usage is really simple: https://code.google.com/p/inno-web-browser/source/browse/trunk/Example.iss
When user advances to your (newly created) page, navigate to your website (which should be running somewhere on server).

Answer 2

There's no native support for including a web page to Inno Setup installer. Neither I'm aware of any 3rd party extension that would support it.
Instead, you can code a custom installer page using the CreateInputQueryPage function to query user registration details and send them to your web site.
A simple example:
[Code]
var
UserPage: TInputQueryWizardPage;
procedure InitializeWizard;
begin
UserPage := CreateInputQueryPage(wpWelcome,
'Registration', 'Who are you?',
'Please specify your name and username tor register, then click Next.');
UserPage.Add('Name:', False);
UserPage.Add('User name:', False);
end;
function NextButtonClick(CurPageID: Integer): Boolean;
begin
Result := True;
if CurPageID = UserPage.ID then
begin
if (UserPage.Values[0] = '') or (UserPage.Values[1] = '') then
begin
MsgBox('You must enter your name and username.', mbError, MB_OK);
Result := False;
end;
end;
end;
procedure CurStepChanged(CurStep: TSetupStep);
var
WinHttpReq: Variant;
RegisterUrl: string;
begin
if CurStep = ssDone then
begin
try
RegisterUrl :=
'https://www.example.com/register.php?' +
Format('name=%s&username=%s', [UserPage.Values[0], UserPage.Values[1]])
Log('Sending registration request: ' + RegisterUrl);
WinHttpReq := CreateOleObject('WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1');
WinHttpReq.Open('GET', RegisterUrl, False);
WinHttpReq.Send('');
Log('Registration report send result: ' +
IntToStr(WinHttpReq.Status) + ' ' + WinHttpReq.StatusText);
except
Log('Error sending registration report: ' + GetExceptionMessage);
end;
end;
end;
(Note that this lacks URL-encoding of the data).
Or simply open the registration form at the end of the installation in a web browser.
[Run]
Filename: "https://www.example.com/register.php"; \
Description: "&Open registration form"; \
Flags: shellexec runasoriginaluser postinstall