Summary

Synopsis

The built-in Dialog Editor allows you to modify our default InstallScript dialogs. However, the Dialog Editor does not provide any functionality to make a copy of an existing InstallScript dialog. This article shows you how this can be done inside of the InstallShield IDE for an InstallScript project type.

Discussion

To make a copy of an existing InstallScript dialog inside of the InstallShield IDE, follow these steps:

1. Open up your InstallScript project and go to the Dialog Editor view, under User Interface > Dialogs.

2. Select the dialog you would like to copy and then right-click on the dialog and select Edit.

3. Once the dialog resources have been loaded into the project (the dialog name will be in bold), go to the Direct Editor view found under Additional Tools > Direct Editor.

4. Locate the Dialog table and select it to view its contents. The dialog you wanted to copy should have an entry in the Dialog table.

5. In the Dialog column, set your new dialog name.

6. In the ISResourceId column (located on the far right of the Dialog table), change the default value to a number in the 13000s. For example, if the original value was 12067, change it to 13067.

7. Go back into the Dialog Editor view, you will see a new copy of the dialog you previously selected to modify as you wish.

8. In your script when you call your custom dialog, make sure you pass the same ID that you specified in step 6 to EzDefineDialog().

If you want to view the source code behind our default InstallScript dialogs, you just need to go to the Script\isrt\src sub-folder where you installed InstallShield. For example, if you installed InstallShield to <Program Files>, the src folder would be located under <Program Files>\InstallShield 10.5\Script\isrt\src.

Additional Information

For more information on calling a custom dialog from script, see the Help topic EzDefineDialog().