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Adding Controls to Dialogs
Editing Dialog Details
Windows Installer Editor Reference
See User Interface Levels in the Windows Installer SDK Help.
In Setup Editor > Dialogs tab, clear the check box next to Welcome Dialog
Wizard.
Add controls to dialog boxes on the Dialogs tab in Setup Editor.
Because of limitations with Windows Installer, do not place dialog box controls on top of
graphics. Although you can place objects on top of one another, controls that are placed
on top of graphics often do not appear at run time.
Warning
Do not edit the Web (IIS) dialog boxes, except to change their order (as a group) in the
installation sequence. Editing the Web dialog boxes might cause unexpected,
undesirable behavior, including damage to the installation. Also, any operation within
this product that affects the installation's user interface will regenerate the Web dialog
boxes, therefore, any changes you make to them will be lost.
To add controls to dialog boxes
1.
In Setup Editor > Dialogs tab, select a dialog box in the left pane.
The dialog box appears in the right pane.
2.
Select Layout menu > Add, and then select the type of control to insert. If the
controls in the Add menu are unavailable, click the dialog box to make it active, and
try adding the control again.
(In Visual Studio: select View menu > Toolbox, and on the toolbox, double-click the
type of control to insert.)
Depending on the type of control you select, a Properties dialog box appears so you
can configure the control's properties, position, and attributes. For information on
each tab of the Properties dialog box, see:
Basic Control Settings
Setting an Event on a Control
Assigning Help to a Control
Assigning Conditions to a Control
Setting the Graphic for a Control
Setting the Items in a Control
3.
Click OK to add the control to the dialog box.
4.
Use other commands on the Layout menu to help organize and arrange the new
controls.
(In Visual Studio: use commands on the Format menu.)
When you perform an operation on multiple controls at once (example: aligning
controls), the last control you select is the master control, which the other selected
controls will conform to. The master control is surrounded with solid handles instead of
hollow handles.
You can edit the general details of any installation dialog box from:
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