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Select interface theme

With Paquet Builder, you have three choices for the style of the installer package's user interface (dialog boxes that end users interact with). You can configure this user interface using the options of this page.

  • the Modern interface will display a modern wizard similar to ones in Windows 10. A wizard UI allows your end users to navigate through different steps. The different interface components can be customized.

Modern interface

  • the Wizard interface is an interface introduced with Paquet Builder version 2.7. Packages display a wizard-styled interface (a standard window with the famous navigation buttons Next and Back...) as the ones you can find in Windows 8, 7 and even XP... This interface type is efficient, looks intuitive and familiar to end users. Wizards allow them to navigate through the different steps before and after extracting files.

Wizard interface

  • the Standard (or traditional) interface is a sequence of dialog boxes like in the old versions of Paquet Builder. End users access to the next dialog box after having clicked OK on the previous one. The major inconvenient is that end users cannot return to a previous dialog once they clicked OK. This interface type is however efficient and several times enough for some users.

Standard interface

You need to select which interface theme you wish to use depending on the purpose of your package.

Some of the following options are accessible only depending on which interface you select.

Modern options

Modern UI packages have the following additional settings:

Wizard Header Image Path

Lets you choose your own image to be shown on the left side (for some pages such as the Welcome dialog box). You can change this image by specifying a new image file into the field. If this field is left blank, Paquet Builder will use the default image.\ You can also click the Browse button to select one of the shipped image files (in the Resources sub-folder).

Information about the image file

  • Height: 345 pixels.
  • Width: 175 pixels.
  • PNG or BMP format supported (PNG 8-bit recommended)

Wizard Label Text

You can specify the text that will be displayed on the wizard near the navigation buttons (see the screenshot above). Generally, it is your company name or maybe your website domain name.

Wizard Options

Wizard-styled packages have the following additional settings:

Header Image Path

See screenshot above: this image is shown in the white banner where instructions to users also appear. You can change this image by specifying a new image file into the field. If this field is left blank, Paquet Builder will use the default image. You can also click the Browse button to select one of the shipped image files (in the Resources sub-folder).

Information about the image file

  • Height: 58 pixels.
  • Width: 90 pixels.
  • PNG or BMP format supported (PNG 8-bit recommended)
  • Background: white (but you can use gradients if you wish).

In case you do not want the default image to be used, you can let Paquet Builder create a custom image from the package's icon: enable the "Generate a header image automatically from the package icon" option. In this case, Paquet Builder will read the specified icon file (if no custom one is specified, the default package icon is used), search for the most appropriate image inside the icon file (it first looks for 48x48 images, then 32x32 images).

Note

The result is similar to the packages that were created with Paquet Builder 2.7. These two samples give you a preview of what you can get using this feature: (32x32 default icon) or (48x48 custom icon)

Watermark image

Lets you choose a custom image to be shown on the left side, like standard Windows wizards. You can change this image by specifying a new image file into the field. If this field is left blank, Paquet Builder will use the default image.\ You can also click the Browse button to select one of the shipped image files (in the Resources sub-folder).

Information about the image file

  • Height: 345 pixels.
  • Width: 175 pixels.
  • PNG or BMP format supported (PNG 8-bit recommended).

Wizard Label Text

You can specify the text that will be displayed on the wizard near the navigation buttons (see the screenshot above). Generally, it is your company name or maybe your website domain name.

Warning

Remember that images increase the size of the final package (even if they will be compressed by Paquet Builder).

Standard Interface

Standard packages have no additional setting.