Tip - Setup Dialog Boxes: How to choose, add text & change image   Unless you have not chosen to create a silent installation, the setup dialog boxes (the setup wizard) is a very important part of an installation. Via the setup dialog boxes you can give the user important information about the installation and let the user choose for example an installation folder, drive, program group, or ask for a license key or password. The setup dialog boxes are also a good opportunity to give your user a great first impression of your product, so it can be a good idea to make them look as professional as possible. In this tip we will show you how to choose which setup dialog boxes to include in a Visual Installer installation, how to add text to the dialog boxes and how to change image for the setup dialog boxes.     How to choose which setup dialog boxes to include in an installation:   It is easy to choose which setup dialog boxes to include in an installation. After you have created a new project (or opened an existing project) you have to open the Dialog boxes tab in the editor and select the setup dialog boxes that you want to include in the installation: You can select a setup dialog box by checking the option box to the left of the name of the setup dialog box, inside the Dialog boxes frame. If you for example want to include the Destination folder dialog box in your installation, you must check the Destination folder option:       How to add text to a setup dialog box:   After you have chosen which setup dialog boxes to include in an installation, you can add text to the dialog boxes. If you for example want to add text to the Welcome dialog box, you can click on the "..." button to the right of the Welcome option in the Dialog boxes frame. The following dialog box will then be opened: Here you can enter a dialog title and a dialog text. For example like this: If you want to preview the setup dialog box, click the Preview button in the dialog box. The Welcome setup dialog box will look like this: Some texts in the dialog boxes are standard texts (for example button texts) and can not be changed in this way. Instead you need to make your changes in special languages files that follows Visual Installer. Via these languages files you can also adapt Visual Installer to different languages. You can read this tip to get more information.     How to change image for the setup dialog boxes:   You can also change the image that is shown in the setup dialog boxes. We have included many ready-to-use images (see this video on YouTube for some examples) and it is easy to choose one of them via Visual Installer's editor. If you click on the Gallery button in the Picture frame in the Dialog boxes tab, the following dialog box is shown: Via this dialog box you can choose one of the built-in images for your setup dialog boxes. The image that you choose will be visible in the Dialog boxes tab, in the picture window to the right. In this way you can easily see which dialog box picture is chosen for a specific project: If you prefer to use your own picture, for example your logo, you can click on the Browse button in the Picture frame in the Dialog boxes tab instead, and choose a picture file on your hard disk.      See also Tip: How to add a link to a setup dialog box Tip: Create installations in different languages      < Tips Index Page

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