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Tips and Tricks
User Interface Tips
This section shows some examples of the Windows Installer UI being
manipulated:
- Billboards
- Browse for File Dialog (dll based custom action)
- Control Removal
- Add Dialog Identification To Titlebar
- Dynamically Update Dialog Controls
- Error Dialog - Improve
- FilesInUse Dialog - Display if Program Running
- Licence Dialog Enabling
- Logo on Dialogs
- MSI Dialog Editor
- Progress Bar - More Detail
- Progress Bar - Move Bar
- Read Me Dialogs
- Remote Desktop Shortcuts
- Start Program at End of Install (via checkbox on final dialog)
- Twin Dialogs
- Uninstall Shortcuts
- Version Number in Dialog Titles
These samples are shown to show how some of these things can be done.
You could of course manually hack a template with "ORCA", but if done this
way you can take an updated template from Microsoft at any time and reapply
the changes automatically.
When done this way you are also effectively documenting the exact changes
required.
Note that you can use the "DialogPreview" command to
preview dialogs, this would allow you to quickly test multiple variations.
"ORCA" can also preview dialogs.