Installer Steps Dialog Box

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The Installer Steps dialog box is where you configure the text and the icons for the installer steps that the installer UI shows for the installer progress. You can use this dialog box to add, edit, remove, and reorder the text and their corresponding icons.

To access the Installer Steps dialog box:

1. In the Advanced Designer, on the Installer UI page, click Look & Feel. The Look & Feel view opens.
2. Ensure that one of the allowable UI modes is GUI:
a. Expand the General UI Setting area.
b. In the Allowable UI Modes setting, ensure that the GUI check box is selected.
3. Ensure that the installer is configured to show a list of installer steps for the installer progress:
a. Expand the Installer Steps area.
b. In the Add images or a lit of installer steps to the left-side of installer panels setting, ensure that Yes is selected.
c. In the Type of Additions to Installer Panels setting, ensure that List of installer steps is selected.
4. Expand the Installer Steps Panel setting, and then the Default Installer/Uninstaller Panel Image setting.
5. In the List of Labels for Installer Steps setting, click the Installer Step Labels setting button.

The following settings are available on the Installer Steps dialog box.

Settings on the Installer Steps Dialog Box

Setting

Description

List of Labels for Installer Steps

This box shows the list of items that the installer UI shows for the installer progress. The items are listed in the order that they appear in the list of installer steps, from top to bottom.

Add Label

To add a progress step to the list of installer steps, click this button.

Edit Label

To edit the text for the selected installer step, click this button.

Remove Label

To remove the selected installer step, click this button.

Auto Populate

To add a label for every panel action that is added to the Pre-Install and Post-Install sequences, click this button.

Move Label Up

To move up the label that is selected in the List of Labels for Installer Steps box, click this button.

Move Label Down

To move down the label that is selected in the List of Labels for Installer Steps box, click this button.

Choose Icons

To specify the small graphics that are displayed next to the text labels that show the progress of the installation, click this button.

Preview

To see how the panel looks with the currently configured options, click this button.

Auto populate labels when saving

To create a list of labels that matches the current set of panel actions each time that you save changes to your project, click this button.

Allow label text to wrap

To avoid the possibility that any long installer step labels are truncated in the installer UI, select this check box. If you select this check box, any long label text continues on successive lines.

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