Use Enhanced User Interface

The Enhanced User Interface improves and extends the controls that you can use when designing the installation interface. You can read more about the requirements and benefits of this options in Enhanced User Interface page.

Always (install, uninstall and maintenance)

Enhanced UI will be used when installing the application as well as when performing "Modify" or "Uninstall" from Control Panel.

Only on install

Enhanced UI will be used only when installing the application. During "Modify" or "Uninstall" from Control Panel the Windows Installer rendering will be used.

Never

Windows Installer rendering will always be used.

Dialog Frame

When using Enhanced User Interface you can customize the frame appearance of the installation interface.

• System native - Operating system native window frame. The frame look depends on operating system.
• Theme specific - The frame looks like the rest of the installation interface on all operating systems.
• Theme specific only when no glass - On Vista and above if glass is available then the glass frame will be used otherwise the Theme specific.

A default theme specific frame is provided for every theme. You can customize the frame appearance by providing your own images set.

Bitmaps Display

In this section you have the option to specify how the bitmaps will be displayed: with fixed or variable size.

Keep original image sizes

The bitmaps will be displayed with fixed size.

Stretch images to fit their controls

If you want your bitmaps to be stretched or shrunken to fit the controls, use this option.

This option will not affect the installation dialog's appearance if the fonts on the user's computer have normal size.

If the user has modified his / her settings to use larger fonts or smaller fonts Windows Installer will resize the dialogs accordingly. You can choose whether the bitmaps will be stretched when the dialogs are resizing. Unfortunately, the stretch algorithm used by Windows Installer is not very good and may cause slight "corruption" in the bitmaps when applied.

You should test the appearance of the bitmaps you are using in both cases and decide which is preferable in your case.

Use individual control 'stretch' settings

This option is selected by default and it enables you to specify the how the picture will be displayed for each control. It is available only for enterprise projects. The individual settings will be specified in the Dialog Editor.