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About Billboards
Windows Installer Editor Reference
Horizontal Spacing > Make Equal. Space items left to right.
Vertical Spacing > Make Equal. Space items up and down.
All selected controls are spaced evenly on the dialog box.
Setting Dialog Tab Order
You can determine the tab order of controls on dialog boxes.
To prevent unexpected control layering, set the dialog box's tab order to include any
graphic or control that is overlapped by another control. The higher the item is in the tab
order, the closer to the top layer it will be.
See
Overlapping graphics and controls
To set the dialog box tab order
1.
In Setup Editor > Dialogs tab, select a dialog box in the left pane.
2.
Click anywhere on the dialog box to set focus.
3.
Select Layout menu > Set Tab Order.
In Visual Studio: View menu > Tab Order.
This is unavailable unless you set the focus on the dialog box first.
A black box appears for each control. The numbers on the boxes indicate the tab
order.
4.
To set the new tab order for the dialog box, click the controls in order. Each control
turns blue as its new tab order is assigned.
If the first several items have the correct tab order, and you want to begin
renumbering the tab order at a later number, hold down the Ctrl key and click the
control after which you want to renumber. Example: If controls 1 through 7 have the
correct tab order, and you want to start renumbering from 8, press Ctrl and click
control 7. Then continue setting tab order starting from control 8.
5.
(Visual Studio integrated editor only.) Before working in another project in the
solution, save the installation to set the tab order.
Billboards consist of a series of text and images that are dynamically displayed on a
dialog box during installation. Typically, billboards highlight features of the program
being installed, promote related products, or encourage product registration.
A billboard is associated with an action, and is displayed while that action is performed
during installation. A billboard consists of:
The billboard
on page 470.
The billboard defines the area of the dialog box where a
sequence of text and images is displayed. The billboard
is like a screen on which bitmaps, icons, or text controls
are projected.
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