Importing Dialogs from Resource .dll Files

InstallShield 2020

To import all of the dialog resources from a .dll file:

1.

In the View List under User Interface, click Dialogs.

2.

In the Dialogs explorer, right-click All Dialogs and click Import Dialogs from Resource Dlls. The Open dialog box opens.

3.

Browse to the .dll file that contains the dialog resources that you want to import.

4.

Click Open.

InstallShield adds each dialog to your project. Naming conflicts are resolved by adding a number to the imported dialog to make it unique.

If an imported control displays text that is already found as a string entry, InstallShield uses the existing string entry for the control’s Text property.

Note:When you are importing a dialog, ensure that any properties referenced by the dialog are present in the new installation project.

Adding a dialog to a project does not mean that the dialog will be displayed during the installation run time. For information on inserting the dialog into one or more of the installation’s sequences, see Displaying Dialogs During Basic MSI Installations.

Even though dialogs can be exported to an .rc file, you must build the resources into a .dll file before you can import them into InstallShield. For more information, see Exporting All Dialogs to an .rc File.