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We'd be interested to hear what the (obviously MANY) users of this GUI think of it, along with recommendations for improvement. This was made for internal use, but surely there's some ideas out there that would help us as well.
Post your notions here. 
Well, to be fair, the uninitiated probably shouldn't use the NSIS GUI.
NSIS is an open-source installer with its own scripting language. Every file to be installed requires its own command, hence large installs with hundreds of files are tedious at best. There are a few attempts at a GUI-based script-writing application, but all we had found required adding one file at a time (using multiple mouse clicks and a lot of typing). This GUI is a program that supports drag-and-drop creation of the scripts, among other things. It still requires manual tweaking of the script, and has a couple of odd behaviors, which is part of the reason for it being released as open source.
Also, there's a fair bit of information on all this on the application's section on the website: http://www.atomicmonks.com/NSISGUI/index.html
Odd that you needed the service pack. While the runtimes in the package are deprecated, it should still run fine.
Now, having said that, I also admit that I haven't even looked at this in a good long while. I personally use HM NIS Edit for our installer scripts now, and it's a fine program indeed.
As for our GUI, I've done a couple of things based on your post. One, I removed the rich textbox...I have no idea why that was there. That handles the richtx32.ocx error. I built a new install, and it has tested fine on two machines. I also updated the download page to point to the SP6 runtime package instead of SP5, and have compiled against that.
I've also provided a download for the source code only, for anybody that wants to play with it.
I'm hoping these take care of the next person that would otherwise run into these problems. Thanks for your post...letting us know is the only way for us to know there's problem.
Heh...I understand completely, and that's why I made Atomic GUI in the first place. And then I learned that you can use wildcards...that pretty well took care of my problem.
Drag & Drop is always nice, though.
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