Themes Page

In this page you can choose from Advanced Installer's predefined themes, set the global properties of your package's User Interface, change visual styles and customize it by setting custom images and text styles that will be displayed on the install dialogs or controls.

Available Themes

Currently Advanced Installer comes packed with the following themes:

• Air
• Windows 7 Wizard style theme. This theme supports Glass effects
• Azure
• Windows Installer theme with azure look. Uses large dialogs and Enhanced UI
• Classic
• Windows Installer theme with classic look. Has a watermark and a banner that can be easily customized
• Graphite
• Windows Installer theme with graphite mineral look. Uses large dialogs and Enhanced UI. In the left side of each dialog, an overall progress of the installation is displayed
• Modern
• Windows Installer theme with modern look. Uses large dialogs and Enhanced UI
• Spring
• Segoe UI font, contiguous installation progress, themed buttons and a clean layout are used to create the Spring theme. Installation steps are reduces and most of the dialogs are displayed only when performing a customized installation. This theme uses Enhanced UI and is based on HTML

To change the current theme, select the desired one and use the command “Use Theme” option from the context menu or by pressing the [ Set as current ] button. To customize the current theme use the “Customize Theme” from the context menu. This option will transfer you to Dialog Editor Page.

Style

This combobox contains all the variations available for the currently selected theme. To select a new theme variation simply select the desired one from the list.

Frame

From this combobox you can select how the dialogs frame will be presented. It contains the "System" option along with custom frames specific for the currently selected theme. The System frame is specific to the Windows Operating System the package will run on. Some themes might not support frame change.

Options

This combobox is available only for themes that can be extra customized:

• Change between radio buttons or checkboxes for overall installation progress
• Choose if the theme uses a header image or not

More Options

By selecting "More Options" button a new listbox will appear. This listbox contains the images that can be changed and are being used by the selected theme.

The following operations are possible:

• Change the resource
• In order to use your own resource file select the "Edit..." context menu option while an element is selected in the listbox.
• Revert to default
• If you want to discard any changes and return to the default resources select the "Reset" context menu option while an element is selected in the listbox.

Image Sizes

The default images size used by Advanced Installer specific for each theme are:

Air

Azure

Classic

Modern

Spring

Testing the installation User Interface

Use the [ Test Installation UI ] toolbar button in the "Themes" page. This will create a temporary package in the Temp folder and run it without performing an actual installation. Since the package is not installed on your machine, only the installation UI sequence can be tested.

Testing the maintenance User Interface

Use the [ Test Maintenance UI ] toolbar button in the "Themes" page. This will create a temporary package in the Temp folder and run it without performing an actual installation. Your product is temporarily registered with Windows Installer so the maintenance UI sequence can be tested..

Topics

• Settings
  Customize theme global settings
• Images
  Set custom images or edit image settings
• Text Styles
  Add or edit text styles.