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GUI Preferences - <guiprefs>

This <guiprefs> element allows you to set the layout and behavior of the GUI when the installer runs. This information will not have any effect on the command-line installers that will be available in future versions of IzPack.The attributes that can be specified are:

Attribute Name

Description

Default Value

resizable

Indicates whether the window size can be changed or not.

no

width

Sets the initial window width in pixels.

600

height

Sets the initial window height in pixels.

480

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Panel IDs are declared in the <panel> element. The standard strings are declared in the standard langpack file. For customized panels it is common to declare text in the custom language pack.

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Code Block
languagehtml/xml
<guiprefs height="600" resizable="yes" width="800" splash="images/splash.png">   
  <laf name="substance">      
    <os family="windows" />
    <os family="unix" /> 
    <param name="variant" value="mist-silver" />
  </laf> 
  <laf name="substance">
    <os family="mac" /> 
    <param name="variant" value="mist-aqua" />
  </laf> 
</guiprefs>

Substance

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The Substance look and feel toned-down themes can be specified using the variant parameter, with the value being one of:

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The Substance web site has been taken off line but is still available in the Substance project source code found at https://github.com/Insubstantial/insubstantial/tree/master/substance http://java.net/projects/substance/sources/svn/show/trunk/www.

To view the gallery of the different toned-down themes, you need to check out the source code and then navigate to the www/docs/skins/toneddown.html file from your browser.

Info

Substance look and feel will not work with Java 9 or above, refer to

Jira Legacy
serverSystem JIRA
serverId4741b2e0-e7d5-3853-84a7-22db1abe3b3c
keyIZPACK-1700
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Trace debug window

When using the installer command line option -trace the actual values for variables and conditions will be shown on the right side of the installer dialog. This can be a very difficult to look for variables as the space is very limited there. This information can be shown in a sepparate separate window by setting the showDebugWindow modifier value as follows:

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