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.

• 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.

• 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.

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).

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).

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).

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).

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.

Standard Interface¶

Standard packages have no additional setting.