Dialogs and Billboards (MSI)

Introduction

The Dialogs and Billboards page defines the dialogs and billboards that the MSI installer uses during installation and removal of your product. On the left is a tree with the billboards, dialogs, and their controls, and on the right a tabbed window with two tabs: Layout and Event handlers. The former shows the billboard or dialog layout for preview and editing; the latter contains the event handlers for each dialog control. At the bottom of the page, the attributes of the currently selected object are displayed.

Note: Merely adding a dialog or billboard to this page does not add it to the installer. To use a dialog in the installer, you must reference it in one or more Run Dialog actions on the Action Sequences page. To use a billboard in the installer, you must create at least one dialog that contains a Billboard control (and also reference that dialog in a Run Dialog action at some point).

Tips

• To change the tab and Z-order of a control in a dialog box (i.e., the order in which they are drawn and how they appear "on top" of each other), select the control in the dialog/control tree in the left pane, then use Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down to move the control up or down in the order. These keystrokes are shortcuts for the Move Up and Move Down commands on the control's context menu.