User Interface Panel

InstallShield 2022 » Release Wizard

Project:This panel is not available for the following project types:

Basic MSI
InstallScript MSI

This panel allows you to specify the look and feel of your setup’s end user dialog boxes.

Panel Options

Use project’s default

If this option is selected, the end user dialog boxes are displayed with the skin that is selected in the Dialogs view’s Skins folder, as shown in the Dialog Preview graphic.

Do not use any skin

If this option is selected, the end user dialog boxes are displayed in standard Windows style, as shown in the Dialog Preview graphic.

Use skin specified below

If this option is selected, the end user dialog boxes are displayed with the skin that you select in the list box, as shown in the Dialog Preview graphic. Note that the BlueTC skin uses GIF files and so under a 16-bit color setting does not look as good as the Blue skin, which uses bitmaps (and so is much larger).

Dialog Preview

Displays a sample of how the end user dialog boxes will appear as a result of the selections you made with the option buttons and list box.

Note:The dialog boxes that are displayed by the following functions cannot be displayed with a skin; they appear the same regardless of whether you have specified a skin.

AskYesNo
EnterDisk
MessageBox
MessageBoxEx
RebootDialog
SdComponentDialog—the Available Disk Space dialog box
SdComponentDialog2—the Select Subcomponents dialog box
SdComponentDialogAdv—the Available Disk Space dialog box
SdConfirmNewDir
SdConfirmRegistration
SdExceptions
SdShowMsg
SelectDir
SelectDirEx
SprintfBox

Display small initialization dialog

If checked, the setup initialization dialog box is the small box that was shown by setups created with InstallShield Professional version 6.31 and earlier—unless the setup displays a security, Save And/or Run Setup, Choose Setup Language, or Qualifying Product(s) Detected dialog box, in which case the setup initialization dialog box is larger and is consistent with the rest of the end user dialog boxes, regardless of the state of this check box. If unchecked, the setup initialization dialog box is larger and is consistent with the rest of the end user dialog boxes.

If this check box is unchecked, the setup initialization dialog box (and the Choose Setup Language dialog box, if any) are not displayed until the startup graphic closes. To specify the length of time for which the startup graphic displays, set Setup.ini’s [Startup] section’s SplashTime value.