Installshield Custom Dialog Examples
Posted : adminOn 4/30/2018
Sonic Specialists Urban Fire 6. Royston Tan 15 Torrent. I just want to create a custom dialog box that will ask the user to imput the NAME of the server and that is it. Need an example on how to do this. I just want to create a custom dialog box that will ask the user to imput the NAME of the server and that is it. Need an example on how to do this.
Creating custom dialogs is a common task in InstallScript MSI and InstallScript projects. The first step in creating a custom dialog is to clone an existing one. When you first do this, you can get stuck on a small issue. I’ll tell you how to get past that issue.
First off, here are the steps you need to perform in order to clone a dialog box: • In the Dialogs view, right-click the dialog you want to clone and select Edit. • In the Dialogs view, right-click same dialog and select Clone. • In the Dialogs view, rename the newly-cloned dialog. • In the Direct Editor view, Dialog table, change the new dialog’s (cloned dialog) ISResourceId to a unique value. • In the Dialogs view, right-click the original dialog that was cloned and select Revert Dialog to Default. Now, let’s go through the steps. First we right-click the dialog we want to clone and select Edit.
In this case, we want to clone the SdAskDestPath2 dialog. Here is the screenshot of the Dialogs view after we have done that.
Realize that I have squeezed the InstallShield IDE a bit so I can fit the screenshot into this blog page. After the dialog has been cloned and the new dialog has been renamed Notice the cloned and renamed dialog has the same Resource Identifier as the original SdAskDestPath2 dialog.
This is a problem and we need to assign a new identifier to the new dialog. The problem is that this property is often disabled after you have cloned the dialog. I don’t know why. But, it means you can’t change the Resource Identifier of the new dialog from this view and you must change this Resource Identifier. If you don’t, InstallShield will become confused. You can see what I mean by closing your project at this time and reopening it.