Get User Input - Simple

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This panel provides a way for users to provide simple responses that you can use to make decisions during the install process. With the Get User Input - Simple panel, you provide a panel title, prompt, and one or more text fields, check boxes, radio buttons, popup menus, or lists. However, this panel only allows you to provide one type of control. (To provide a mix of different controls—such as text fields, check boxes, and popup menus—use the Get User Input - Advanced panel instead.)

Get User Input - Simple Panel Controls

Control

Description

Title

The title the installer will show for this panel.

Prompt

The message with which you can specify the type of information the installer requests and the purpose for or results of those responses.

Input Items

Shows the input items by their Label, Default Value, and Text Reading Order in a table.

Input Method

Lists the types of input methods the Get User Input - Simple panel can render.

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Textfields—Shows one or more text boxes, accepts text typed into the field, and stores those strings in the results variable for this panel.

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Checkboxes—Shows one or more check boxes, accepts user input (checked: True, unchecked: False), and stores those values in the results variable.

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Radio buttons—Shows one or more radio buttons (option buttons), accepts user choices (mutually exclusive), and records those choices in the results variable.

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Popup menu—Shows a popup list from which the end user can choose a single option. This choice is recorded in the results variable, and can be stored in a user-specified variable.

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List—Shows options in a list from which a user can select one or more options. These choices are recorded in the results variable or a variable you specify in the Configure Input Items dialog box.

Configure

Opens the Configure Input Items dialog box. The Configure Input Items dialog box provides controls to fully describe the contents of the Get User Input panel. In general, this dialog box allows you to:

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Add or remove controls of the type set in Input Method.

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Define labels and default values for each control.

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Specify the text orientation and text reading direction for each control.

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Set, for all panel controls, the typeface, size, text color, and background color.

The specific settings available on the Configure Input Items dialog box depend on the current Input Method setting.

Preview

Shows a preview of the panel as it is currently configured.

Results Variable

Names the results variable in which the user input is stored.

Get User Input - Simple

InstallAnywhere 2020 Help Library

October 2019