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Topic: Your opinion please! Setup banners...

Posted By: znakeeye
Subject: Your opinion please! Setup banners...
Date Posted: 08 August 2009 at 7:26am

Your opinion please!

When running a setup program, you see several pages. Typically:

1) Welcome Screen

2) License Agreement

3) Select Installation Folder

4) Confirm Installation

5) Installing X

Each page has a banner. By default, MSI projects come with an ugly "installation" icon - for each page. Replacing this icon with your own is of course the right thing to do, but...

Q: Is it desirable to have different banners for different pages during the setup?

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Posted By: adrien
Date Posted: 10 August 2009 at 12:55am

Often yes.

for instance if you want it to have some sort of image about the step, or use graphics to include text.

You writing an installer product?

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Posted By: znakeeye
Date Posted: 20 August 2009 at 9:15am

Thanks for your input. I've discussed this with my collegues, and most of them think one banner is desirable. Argument: "Otherwise it gets too 'jumpy'."

No, I'm not writing an installer product. Just playing a bit with deployment options... and this question came up.

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