The Advanced Installer main window is organized into five sections: The 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 of the 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 pages of
the creation process 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: Project Settings, Project Definition,
Project Details, Project User Interface. 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 it 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.