Creating New Setup Themes

You may wish to customize existing setup dialogs to include your own corporate elements, and make them available for re-use in all your installation projects. The most efficient way of doing this would be by creating your own setup theme.

To create your own setup theme :

1. Navigate to the InstallAware installation folder using your favorite file manager. Then navigate inside the Dialogs directory.
2. Duplicate the folder containing the theme closest to the new theme you wish to create. For instance, if you wish to base your new theme on the Classic theme, make a copy of the Classic folder and give it a unique name, such as MyTheme.
3. Start the Dialog Editor.
4. Using the editor, open each dialog stored in the MyTheme folder, and customize all elements as necessary:
   • Be sure to preserve existing intra-dialog relations.
   • Also preserve pre-defined dialog behavior.
5. After you have customized all dialogs, use your new theme as you would any other pre-defined theme.

Feel free to send us any interesting themes you have created. We will include them for download in our online theme gallery for everyone to download and use.

 Warning:

Be sure to store a copy of your theme folder somewhere safe, so you can use it on other computers with InstallAware, or when you need to reinstall InstallAware on your own computer.