InstallShield 2012 Spring Express Edition User Guide

Chapter 4: Basic Tutorial
Organize Your Setup
The InstallShield Installation Development Environment (IDE) opens.
Organize Your Setup
The first step in building your project is to configure organizational information. This is accomplished
through the views associated with the Organize Your Setup step in the View List.
General Information
The General Information view is where you enter information about your application, from your
company’s name to the Web site your customers can access to learn more about your application.
Task To configure general information:
1. In the View List under Organize Your Setup, click General Information.
2. In the Product Name setting, enter:
Othello
3. In the INSTALLDIR setting, enter:
[ProgramFilesFolder]Othello
4. In the Subject setting, enter:
Othello
5. In the Author setting, enter your name.
6. In the Summary Information Stream Comments setting, enter:
This installation contains the logic and data required to install My Sample.
7. Provide an icon for the package:
a. Click the Display Icon setting, and then click the ellipsis button (...). The Change Icon dialog
box opens.
b. Click the Browse button.
c. Navigate to the following directory:
InstallShield Program Files Folder\Samples\WindowsInstaller\Basic Installation
Project\Data Files
d. Select Othello.exe.
e. Click the Open button. The Open dialog box closes, and InstallShield adds the path and name
of the file that you selected to the File name setting.
f. Click OK.
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