{"id":6430,"date":"2020-07-21T10:33:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T10:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/?p=6430"},"modified":"2020-07-21T10:33:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T10:33:42","slug":"hiding-tabs-in-the-visual-installer-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/hiding-tabs-in-the-visual-installer-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiding tabs in the Visual Installer editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Visual Installer editor contains 6 main tabs: <strong>File list<\/strong>, <strong>Design<\/strong>, <strong>Dialog boxes<\/strong>, <strong>Registry<\/strong>, <strong>INI files<\/strong>, and <strong>Components<\/strong>. But some of these tabs can be hidden if you never use them.<\/p>\n<p>The following tabs can be hidden: <strong>Registry<\/strong>, <strong>INI files<\/strong>, and <strong>Components<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/images\/product-visual-installer\/visual-installer-editor-tabs-area.png\" alt=\"Main tabs in Visual Installer\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>To hide a tab, you can choose the <strong>Special &#8211; Editor options<\/strong> menu item in the Visual Installer editor. Thereafter you can click on the <strong>Tabs<\/strong> tab in the dialog box. And now you can select (check) the tabs that you want to hide. See the picture below for an example:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/images\/product-visual-installer\/vi-dialogbox--editor-options--tabs.png\" alt=\"Editor options\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>Finally, click <strong>OK<\/strong> to save the settings.<\/p>\n<p>Now will the tab(s) that you selected in the <strong>Editor options<\/strong> dialog box be hidden in the editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Visual Installer editor contains 6 main tabs: File list, Design, Dialog boxes, Registry, INI files, and Components. But some of these tabs can be hidden if you never use them. The following tabs can be hidden: Registry, INI files, and Components. To hide a tab, you can choose the Special &#8211; Editor options menu &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/hiding-tabs-in-the-visual-installer-editor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hiding tabs in the Visual Installer editor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6430"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6439,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6430\/revisions\/6439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}