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Defining Installation Dialogs

In the prototype file, you define the dialog properties, buttons, and texts in the Dialog and Resource sections, using appropriate keywords.

Each installation dialog is identified by a unique name, which lets you navigate between dialogs and define sequences for dialogs. Scripts can be specified for a dialog to verify every single value or all values entered before the subsequent dialog is started or to determine the name of the next dialog to start.

Installation dialogs can contain different dialog elements such as text input fields, text output areas, installation directory input fields, check boxes, navigation buttons, and so on. A dialog element can be determined that has the focus when the installation dialog is started, for example, the Next button.

All text messages presented in the installation dialogs are stored in separate sections in the prototype file, so they can be localized to provide different languages within the same PIF product.

Note: The VT100 compatible mode can be forced by using the Installer (lsm command) option -V.