The Advanced Installer main window is organized into five sections: Main Menu, toolbar, page menu, page display and log pane. Each page may in turn be organized in multiple tabs and/or dialog boxes. Most dialog boxes can be resized by dragging their bottom-right corner.

Toolbar

There is always a main toolbar available, allowing quick access to most commands provided by the menu system. For example: New, Open and Save Project, Build and Run. Some of the creation process' pages insert their own toolbars to easily add files to the install, create shortcuts, etc. For a detailed explanation of each item on the main toolbar see Working with Projects.

Page Menu

The page menu contains grouped lists of conceptually related pages. These groups are: Product Information, Requirements, Resources, Deployment, User Interface, System Changes, Server, Custom Behavior. From general to detailed, clicking on these items will display, to the right, the various configuration options for your installer. The bold item is the currently selected one. You can hide the page menu by clicking on the top-right corner close button. To show it again, go to the “View > Left Pane > Show” menu.

Page Display

The center stage for creating your installer is this large area on the right. It is the main work area - all project data is displayed here.

Log Pane

This panel will contain the log resulted from running the project with the full logging capabilities of Windows Installer enabled. It is hidden by default and is shown only if a project is run via the “Project > Run and Log” menu. You can hide it again by clicking on the top-right corner [ Close ] button. To show it back, use the “View > Log Pane” menu item.

The log pane's auto-scrolling feature can be disabled by changing the caret position from the log pane's last line to one of the lines above.

To search a text inside the generated log press the F3 key to display the Find Text dialog.

Topics

• Main Menu
  A description of Advanced Installer's main menu and of actions attached to each item.