Installer interface

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You will use the User Interface editor to customize the appearance of the installer. To view this editor, point to Editors in the View menu and choose User Interface.

The User Interface editor lets you select from a series of predefined installation dialogs. For a typical Business Portal integration installer, you will need the following dialogs:

  • Welcome
  • Installation Folder
  • Confirm Installation
  • Progress
  • Finished

 

When you create a new setup project, these dialogs will be added by default. You can right-click in the User Interface editor to add other dialogs to your installer.

To customize the installer interface, select each of the dialogs in the User Interface editor and set the dialog’s properties. For the Welcome dialog, we recommend setting the WelcomeText property to the following:

This installer will install [ProductName] into the Business Portal.

 

The [ProductName] portion of the property will automatically be replaced by the ProductName you specified in the setup project’s properties.

Each dialog has a bitmap that appears in the upper-right corner. If you change this bitmap, we recommend that you use the same bitmap for every dialog in the setup project.