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  • Overview
  • Customizing the interface of setup program (standard setup or network setup)
  • Overview
  • Customizing the setup program window
  • Using a background window in the setup program
  • Customizing the interface of the setup program (compact setup)
  • To customize and translate the interface of the compact setup:
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Overview
To make the installation process more user-friendly, the setup wizard allows you to customize the interface of the setup program. These options appear in the skin template steps.
Two types of customization are available for the interface:
Remark: The customization of the interface may differ according to the runtime language of the setup program.
Customizing the interface of setup program (standard setup or network setup)

Overview

By default, the setup program is a window that shows the various setup options.
To customize your setup program, you can:
  • display a window background image.
  • use a background window behind the installation window . This window can contain:
    • a text or a logo.
    • a gradient or a background image.

Customizing the setup program window

You can use a specific background image in the setup wizard window.
To customize the setup program window:
  1. In "Installer skin template", select "Display a custom image".
  2. Select the image to use. We recommend using a 708 x 460 pixel image.
  3. Go to the next step of the wizard.

Using a background window in the setup program

You can use a background window behind the setup window.
To customize the background window of the setup program :
  1. In "Title and logo", select the language for which the interface should be customized.
  2. Enter the title of the setup program. By default, this title corresponds to name of the application. This title will appear in the title bar of the setup program window.
  3. Click the "Logo" button.
  4. Configure the setup program interface.
By default, the setup wizard does not use a background window.
To get all the options, select "Display setup background image".
Correspondence between the background options and the setup program:
Select "Display setup background window". This option allows you to use a background window behind the setup program window.
The background window can contain:
  • a caption. Enter this caption. This text will be displayed in the upper-left corner of the background window. Type the application name.
    Caution: The maximum number of characters is limited. Taking the letters "i" and "m" as reference, the caption can contain between 20 and 70 characters.
  • a logo. Select the image that will be displayed at the top of the background window. This logo will be centered and proportionally resized.
    To optimize the display of the logo, the window of the setup program will be moved to the bottom.
    Caution: If the height of the logo is too important, the bottom of the logo may be hidden by the window of the setup program.
The wallpaper can correspond to:
  • a gradient color. Select the start color, the end color and the gradient direction.
  • an image. This image can be tiled or stretched. Select the image to use.
Remark: WINDEV is provided with:
  • two preset background images.
  • two preset side images.
These images can be found in the "Programs\Data\Models\WDInst" subdirectory of the WINDEV installation directory.
Customizing the interface of the setup program (compact setup)
By default, the interface of the compact setup is as follows:
The setup creation wizard allows you to customize and translate:
  • the texts of this interface
  • the error messages displayed.

To customize and translate the interface of the compact setup:

  1. In "Title and logo", select the language for which the interface should be customized.
  2. Enter the title of the setup program. By default, this title corresponds to name of the application. This title will appear in the title bar of the setup program window.
  3. Click the "Logo" button.
  4. Enter the new messages in the selected language.
Minimum version required
  • Version 10
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Last update: 09/04/2023

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