
Modify welcome screen

This page allows you to modify the settings for the Welcome screen dialog box. Paquet Builder supports different kinds of dialog boxes depending on your choice for the interface theme.

Standard interface

The welcome dialog box allows end users to start the file extraction, exit your package and/or display an About message. And this is generally the first dialog box shown to end users.

Prompt Text:
Please use this text box to enter the text that appears on the welcome screen. It should be a description of your package's contents like "This will install Sample Player./$Press Start to install it or Cancel to exit.". If you don't enter a custom text, this dialog will not be used even if you specify an About message.
About Message:
It allows you to specify the text for the message box that will be displayed when end users click on the About button. This will usually consist of a multiple line copyright message, however you are not restricted in what you can display.
If you want to disable the about message (no About button will be displayed), then enter #Blank in the field.

Tip: to put a carriage-return–line-feed between “Line 1” and “Line 2", use /$, like "Line1/$Line2".

Wizard interface

The welcome dialog displays a text (in rich text format) at the beginning: it should describe the package contents and indicate end users how the latter works. It is similar to the introduction screen you find in the traditional Windows 2000-like wizards.

You can see an example below:

End users press Next to continue or Cancel to exit.

To edit the text, press the Edit button and the Rich Text Pad editor will be opened.
To clear the text, press Clear.
To use a default welcome template, press Template and select the one you wish in the displayed menu list.

About creating multilanguage packages

Paquet Builder can create multilanguage packages: they are compiled with several different languages and then automatically translate the texts of their user interface in the more appropriate language at runtime (automatically determined or user-selected).

The Welcome dialog can display itself in several languages: for each language you decide to compile into the package, you need normally to write a localized welcome rich text.

Use the language list to select the language in which you would like to edit the welcome text.

Some important notes about how this wizard dialog works:

If a welcome text is not available in the language selected by end users at runtime, the package will then use the one that was written for the default language.
If the welcome text of the default language is left blank, the Welcome screen will be disabled (not shown to users) even if welcome texts for other languages are available! In fact the default language determines which wizard dialogs should be displayed to end users: be sure to first select the default language in the languages list page before you start writing welcome texts.

Click here for further information about multilanguage packages.