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Toolbox

The toolbox contains all types of dialog elements that can be presented in an installation dialog.

Additionally, the toolbox provides the Dialog language drop-down list and the Input order check box.

• The Dialog language drop-down list lets you select the language for the installation dialogs being created.
• The Input order check box lets you specify the order in which the input fields of an installation dialog should be processed during the installation of the PIF package. For more information, see the Specify the Input Order for the Fields section.

The available dialog elements are listed below. You can drag and drop the symbols from the toolbox to the desired position in the workbox.

Label

Describes another dialog element. Usually, a label leads a text field in an installation dialog. A label cannot span more than one line.

Text area

Presents texts, which may span more than one line.

Text field

Receives user input. The input is assigned to a parameter and so made available for scripts. You can specify a shell script that validates the input data.

Progress bar

Visualizes the progress of a product installation. You can drag and drop the progress bar icon only if the Presentation field in the dialog properties is set to Progress.

Password field

Specifies a password input field. You can specify a shell script that validates the input data.

Check box

Represents the logical values True (the check box is checked) or False (the check box is cleared) and can be used to select an item on the installation dialog (True) or unselect an item (False).

Navigation button

Specifies the next installation dialog to appear and lets you initiate different actions. You can drag and drop navigation buttons only into the navigation area at the bottom of the workbox.

Progress label

Shows information about the installation progress that changes during the installation process, for example, file names or component names. You can drag and drop the progress label icon only if the Presentation field in the dialog properties is set to Progress.

Button

Starts new dialogs and sets specific parameter values, for example, in a dialog to select standard, minimum or user-defined installation.

Installation directory

Specifies the installation path for the product or a component of the product.

File area

Shows the contents of a file, which must be provided by the pre-installation component, for example, an end-user license agreement file.

Progress area

Shows the progress of a script execution.

Combo box

Provides a combo box or a list box. Both types of boxes display a list of selectable values, but the combo box allows you to enter another value. For example, in case of a multi-language product, can be used to offer the available language versions for selection.

Radio button

Lets you switch between two or more values.

Check box tree

Lets you create a hierarchical tree structure of check boxes, for example, to list package components for selection.

File Selection

Lets you select the files.

Image

Lets you display images within the wizard grid. Images can be shown with their original size or they can be scaled to a well-defined size.