Kix2Exe-Gui

Besides packaging your scripts from the commandline using kix2exe.exe, a graphical frontend for Kix2Exe, called Kix2Exe-Gui (kix2exe-gui.exe) is available. By using this graphical frontend there's no need to work on the commandline to package your scripts!

Note: Kix2Exe-Gui requires Kix2Exe to function. The GUI is 'just' a frontend application to easily read, configure and write packaging settings to scripts and to package scripts to executable packages without manually typing in a whole list of parameters on the commandline. Of course existing functionality like editor integration is still available in Kix2Exe.

Kix2Exe-Gui Features

Kix2Exe-Gui has the following features:

• Read packaging settings from the packaging settings comment block in the script into the GUI;
• Edit / change packaging settings in the GUI and write them back to the script;
• Package a script directly from the GUI; Kix2Exe packaging output is captured and shown inside the GUI;
• Update the packaging settings comment block of previous Kix2Exe versions to the version required by your current version of Kix2Exe;
• Pass parameters (/script and /read) to Kix2Exe-Gui to target a specific KiXtart script and automaticaly read its packaging settings into the GUI;
• Shell Integration that allows you to package your KiXtart scripts from within Windows Explorer;
• Generate Kix2Exe commandline strings.

Screenshots

Here are a few screenshots of the GUI:

parameters

Kix2Exe-Gui accepts the folowing two parameters:

• /script - targets the GUI to the script specified on the commandline.
• /read - read the packaging settings comment block from the script (optional)

Example:

kix2exe-gui.exe /script="c:\dev\myscript.kix" /read

Tip: use the new Shell Integration functionality available in version 1.1.0 and up.

Installation

Installation instructions can be found on the How to Install page.

Todo-list

Todo-list for Kix2Exe-Gui development:

• Add autoincrementing the vernum value on each package action
• Add support for multiple pre-defined branding-profiles

If you have suggestions to improve Kix2Exe and / or Kix2Exe-Gui, please use the contact form or the Feedback function in Kix2Exe-Gui (menu Help > Send Feedback).