Support Files View (Advanced UI, Basic MSI, InstallScript Object, and Suite/Advanced UI Projects)

InstallShield 2016

Project • This information applies to the following project types:

Advanced UI
Basic MSI
InstallScript Object
Suite/Advanced UI

The Support Files view is where you can add support files to your project, and—in Basic MSI projects—add files to disk image folders.

The Support Files view contains the following main areas:

Support Files

The Support Files area lets you add, sort, and delete support files—files that are required by your installation only during the installation process. The installation removes the support files when the installation is complete. Add any language-dependent files to the appropriate language-specific area. Add language-independent files to the Language Independent area.

Splash Screen

Project • The Splash Screen area is available for Basic MSI projects.

The Splash Screen area lets you add to your project a startup graphic—the graphic that is displayed when the end user begins the installation. The graphic file must be a bitmap file (.bmp). Add the file to the appropriate language-specific or language-independent folder.

Note • In a single-language installation, the splash screen that is specified for the single language (or the language-independent splash screen if no splash screen is specified for the single language) is displayed.

In a multilanguage installation, the splash screen for the language in which the installation is running is displayed. If no splash screen is specified for the language in which the installation is running, the language-independent splash screen is used.

Only one splash screen is displayed to the end user during the installation. If you have more than one splash screen file in the language-independent area or for a specific language, the first file in the list is displayed at run time.

Advanced Files

Project • The Advanced Files area is available for Basic MSI projects.

The Disk1 item in the Advanced Files area enables you to indicate files and folders that you want to go on Disk1 of your installation media. These files and folders are not automatically installed to the target system when your installation is run. Rather, you can link to the installation media from your application or from the installation. For example, you might include a large redistributable file with your application that you do not want included in the application installation. This file should be placed in the Disk1 folder.

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