Setup Panel creation for use with the build method "Setup" |
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Applies
to: The setup wizard user interface: Tip: you find some ready to use sample setup panels including buttons in the BrowserBob library or you create your own setup panel, following these simple steps: The user interface of the setup - the
setup panel - is to be composed in design mode together with your application
(in the actual project). |
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Adding a setup
panel: |
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This panel needs some basic
objects for its task as setup panel: a cancel button, a back button, a
next button and a web object. |
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Complete the setup user
interface Add a panel to the design area and choose Setup as its Role in the properties dialog. This makes BrowserBob disregard this panel as part of the actual application and makes it available as a possible setup panel. Now you can assign your own graphic as panel background. |
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Add a web object and three buttons
to the panel. The web object serves as content window, where readme and license files will be displayed, and where the user can specify installation properties. The buttons serve as navigation buttons for the installation process: Cancel, Back and Next.
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Now you position the buttons like foreseen on the panel. |
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The web object you added to the panel will be the representation of the setup panels text box, where licence information, folder information etc. will be displayed. In our example it covers the grey area of the background image. |
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After these specifications,
the setup panel is ready for use with the Setup
method of the Build process. Related
topics: |
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