InstallShield 2012 Spring Express Edition User Guide

Chapter 24: View Reference
Customize the Setup Appearance View
Customize the Setup Appearance View
The appearance of your setup is one of the main aspects that differentiates you from your competition.
You can easily customize the way your setup looks and behaves through the views listed below.
Dialogs View
Table 24-49: Views Under the Customize the Setup Appearance View
View Description
Dialogs Through the Dialogs view you can select which dialogs you want displayed during your
setup, and you can customize the look of these dialogs by adding custom banners and
images.
Billboards Billboards are images or Adobe Flash application files that are displayed for a specified
amount of time during the file transfer portion of your installation. The billboards can be
used to communicate, advertise, educate, and entertain end users. For example,
billboards can present overviews on new features of the product being installed or other
products from your company. Each billboard is a file that you or your company’s graphics
department creates for complete control over the look and feel of the file transfer.
Text and Messages All the strings used during your setup are accessible through the Text and Messages view.
Through this view you can change the text displayed on dialogs and error messages shown
to your end users.
Your setup’s user interface is important in many ways, primarily because customer input and settings
are usually handled through the user interface. If your user interface is difficult to navigate and
understand, users may experience problems installing your product. In order to ease the process of
creating your setup and to improve the end-user experience, InstallShield provides several predefined
dialogs.
Although you are limited to the provided dialogs, you can customize many of them to produce the look
and functionality you require. For example, you can add a custom image to the top of every dialog,
thereby branding it with your company logo.
For information on customizing each dialog, as well as sample screen shots of each dialog in both
available dialog themes, see the following:
• Splash dialog
• Install Welcome dialog
• License Agreement dialog
• Readme dialog
• Customer Information dialog
• Destination Folder dialog
• Database Folder dialog
• Setup Type dialog
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