User Experience Issues with Install Aware

[ramu2020]

Hi,

Attached is the test setup and app I developed using MS Visual Studio 2008 (App) and Install Aware X2 Studio Admin that we recently purchase.

1. Create folder name C:\Users\admin\Desktop2. Unzip the attachment the above folder
3. Open the C:\Users\admin\Desktop\TestApp\TestSetup\TestSetup.mpr
4. Build it using IA
5. Test run

This test setup basically summarize my uneasy experience with IA dialog :

1. Transition between dialog not smooth, lot of flickering, the control edge become blur for a while and some control like background image disappear and appear again.
2. On the Select Installation Type dialog, the sub radio button background not blend with the dialog background. I use panel to group this sub radio button.
3. The label control in Select Installation Type dialog disappear without any reason.
4. The random function keep return same number which quite weird.
5. The system X button disabled without any reason.

I really hope you can give solution the problem above as I have spend time developing this test setup and app to demonstrate the issues we are facing now.

Thanks,
Ramu

[FrancescoT]

Dear Ramu,

it seems that you didn't follow the correct approach ... please see my edited project.

Then for what concerns your other points about your "uneasy experience with IA dialog";

> 4, Please don't post multiple time the same question, I have already replied to it.
http://www.installaware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10213

> 5, Please don't post multiple time the same question, I have already replied to it.
http://www.installaware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10195&p=38597#p38597

Regards

[ramu2020]

Hi,

I see you downgrade it to use color as dialog background to solve the issue. in our case we really need the dialog background image which seem to cause the flickering and disappearing control.

[ramu2020]

Attached is the modified version of the test setup which I made it borderless and glass enable (to allow user to drag the dialog by clicking to top portion), in this example I show why image background is so important especially for top portion which now is declared as glass region. Without the glass region user cannot move the dialog. When I add glass region, the region become transparent, so I need to put image to make it like part of the dialog. Unfortunatly when the dialog transition to other dialog the the image disappear and appear again. Any advice how to solve this? I don't see any properties in glass control to set background color.

[ramu2020]

any comment on the refresh issue with image??

[FrancescoT]

Dear Ramu2020,

I can only suggest to switch off "dialog's transition" in your case (set FX pre-defined variable to NONE).

This is not an IA bug, the glass control due its nature, it doesn't have any background color property.

Regards