InstallAware

Hey guys,

As you know, we added a branding removal feature in InstallAware 11. To activate it, set the MYAHLOGO variable to TRUE at the beginning of your script, like so:


Please note that there are a few confusing strings that can be confused with branding, but are actually normal strings that can be removed:

1) When you use an InstallAware dialog theme, you will see a label that is placed on the top left corner of each dialog. This label will contain the text "$TITLE$ Setup - InstallAware Wizard". However, even though you can manually edit this label to remove the InstallAware Wizard part, you might confuse it with the InstallAware branding (for example when working with themes like the Aero one where the title bar extends over that label). Therefore, keep in mind that this text has to be manually removed and will not be affected by setting the MYAHLOGO variable to TRUE.

2) When you launch an InstallAware setup you will see a splash screen that is titled InstallAware Wizard. This string, again, has nothing to do with branding. Instead, its an installer shared string and can be edited by running the mTranslator.exe application from the InstallAware 11\trans dir. Use the tool to change the value of this string for the relevant language to whatever your would like.


Good luck!

I think there may be a bug related to the branding functionality added in InstallAware 11...

It was recently noticed (by one of our testers) that the caption of the installation wizard was doubling-up the Product Name, i.e.

"My ProductMy Product - InstallAware Wizard"

I looked at the Dialog Editor and the caption contains only the variable $TITLE$
This same variable is included in other labels on the dialog (we use out-of-the-box dialogs) and those labels do not double-up the product name.

I thought that perhaps it was a result of upgrading an older project, so I created a new project (simple .NET Setup), accepted all the defaults for Names, etc.. When I built and ran that Wizard, I got the same result - the Product Name was doubled-up on the wizard caption with dialogs I had not modified in any way.

So I'm not seeing the behavior you describe above where the caption is "$TITLE$ - InstallAware Wizard", it's just "$TITLE" and the result is "<TITLE><TITLE> - InstallAware Wizard" at runtime.

I did find that if I include the MYAHLOGO code, to turn off branding, then I do just get a single instance of TITLE in the wizard caption (and no branding) - which is what I'm going to have to do until this is resolved.

Regards,

- Aaron.

Hey Aaron - I am unable to reproduce this - could you please send me a reproducing project to support at installaware.com?

Thank you!

I've just sent you the example project and a screen-shot of the result.

Thanks,

- Aaron.

Thank you Aaron. This bug has been fixed - please regenerate, redownload and reinstall your license.

giaviv wrote:Hey guys,

2) When you launch an InstallAware setup you will see a splash screen that is titled InstallAware Wizard. This string, again, has nothing to do with branding. Instead, its an installer shared string and can be edited by running the mTranslator.exe application from the InstallAware 11\trans dir. Use the tool to change the value of this string for the relevant language to whatever your would like.

Any suggestions on what to do when these strings must vary between IA projects? i.e. I want to replace InstallAware with text that includes product names which of course vary by product. So I don't want a single source for these translations, but a different set of translations for each project/product.

Dear User,

I'm not quite sure if I follow your question, what do you mean with "different set of translations for each project/product"?

Are you refering on how to localize your project with different languages?

Regards

Hi guys,

As you know Shared Strings are not project specific.

I tried using variables in the strings to make them work for each project, but it does not seem to work:
"$TITLE$ is preparing the InstallAware Wizard..."

Is there a way to make the text in the initialization dialog project specific?

Thanks

I understand that at the point that this dialog is being displayed, the project does not have access to variables, but it should be possible to use compiler variables here.

I tried using compiler variables, but they don't work either.

Is it possible for you to add support for compiler variables in the shared strings?