User Interface Tab
The User Interface tab on the Options dialog box sets your user interface preferences. These settings are maintained across all projects that you create on this system.
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Setting |
Project Type |
Description |
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Always create new components and features |
Basic MSI, InstallScript, InstallScript MSI |
If you want InstallShield to automatically create components and features when needed, select this check box. If you do not select this check box, InstallShield prompts you to create components and features when necessary. |
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Always confirm feature, component, and release deletion |
Basic MSI, InstallScript, InstallScript MSI |
If you want InstallShield to display a confirmation dialog box each time that you delete a feature, component, or release, select this check box. |
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Always confirm script terminology conversion |
Basic MSI, InstallScript, InstallScript MSI |
If you want InstallShield to display a confirmation dialog box when you open a project that was created in InstallShield Professional, select this check box. The dialog box asks if you want to convert your script to use the InstallScript lexicon. |
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Automatically determine best feature or component |
Basic MSI, InstallScript, InstallScript MSI |
If you want InstallShield to automatically determine the feature or component that should contain the registry data that you configure in the Registry view, select this check box. If this check box is cleared, InstallShield displays a dialog box that you can use to specify the appropriate feature or component name when you create registry data for the All Application data option or a Feature option in the View Filter. |
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Show Welcome panel for IDE wizards |
Basic MSI, InstallScript, InstallScript MSI |
If you want InstallShield to display a Welcome panel every time you run a wizard, select this check box. |
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Warn about Web site deletion |
Basic MSI, DIM, InstallScript, InstallScript MSI, Merge Module |
If you want InstallShield to display a confirmation dialog box when you delete a Web site in the Internet Information Services view and the Web site contains one or more IIS applications or virtual directories, select this check box. The confirmation dialog box alerts you that the Web site’s applications and virtual directories will be deleted from your project if you proceed with deleting the Web site. |
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Show InstallScript project types |
InstallScript |
This check box is available in the version of InstallShield that is included with AdminStudio. By default, this check box is cleared. If you want InstallShield to hide the InstallScript and InstallScript MSI project types on the New dialog box, select this check box. |