Displaying billboards Feedback Billboards are bitmap or metafile images that you display to communicate, advertise, educate, promote, intrigue, entertain, and otherwise keep your users' attention during file transfer. Billboards are automatically displayed during the file transfer phase of setup, which means that you can display billboards only when you are installing files with ComponentTransferData (which is called automatically in an event-based setup, after the First UI Before event). Billboards are enabled only if you do the following: In your script, call Enable(BACKGROUND) and Enable(FULLWINDOWMODE) before file transfer. Include your billboard files in the Setup Files pane under the appropriate target language(s) and platform(s) and name the billboards correctly. You cannot specify a length of time for a given billboard to display. InstallShield spaces them evenly throughout the file transfer process, basing each billboard's display time on the size of the files being transferred. To lengthen the time that a particular billboard is on screen, you must display the same billboard more than once but with a different name each time.You can display as many billboards as you wish, but be aware that InstallShield displays each billboard for a minimum of two seconds. So, for example, if you list 25 billboards but your file transfer lasts only 20 seconds on a particular system, only the first ten billboards will display.All metafile billboards will either be displayed at the default size (approximately 100 pixels by 100 pixels) or displayed at the size specified in the most recent call to SizeWindow. Since it is not possible to call this function during file transfer, all metafile billboards displayed must be the same size.Setup does not remove metafile billboards until file transfer has completed, meaning that each metafile is rendered over the previously rendered metafile. Therefore, if you are displaying metafile billboards in your setup, be sure that they do not have areas which are not filled in. Otherwise, previously rendered metafiles may be visible. InstallShield does not support transparent billboards. Portions of billboards in the default transparent color (purple—RGB 255, 0, 255) will be displayed as purple.
Feedback Billboards are bitmap or metafile images that you display to communicate, advertise, educate, promote, intrigue, entertain, and otherwise keep your users' attention during file transfer. Billboards are automatically displayed during the file transfer phase of setup, which means that you can display billboards only when you are installing files with ComponentTransferData (which is called automatically in an event-based setup, after the First UI Before event). Billboards are enabled only if you do the following: In your script, call Enable(BACKGROUND) and Enable(FULLWINDOWMODE) before file transfer.
Include your billboard files in the Setup Files pane under the appropriate target language(s) and platform(s) and name the billboards correctly.
You cannot specify a length of time for a given billboard to display. InstallShield spaces them evenly throughout the file transfer process, basing each billboard's display time on the size of the files being transferred. To lengthen the time that a particular billboard is on screen, you must display the same billboard more than once but with a different name each time.You can display as many billboards as you wish, but be aware that InstallShield displays each billboard for a minimum of two seconds. So, for example, if you list 25 billboards but your file transfer lasts only 20 seconds on a particular system, only the first ten billboards will display.All metafile billboards will either be displayed at the default size (approximately 100 pixels by 100 pixels) or displayed at the size specified in the most recent call to SizeWindow. Since it is not possible to call this function during file transfer, all metafile billboards displayed must be the same size.Setup does not remove metafile billboards until file transfer has completed, meaning that each metafile is rendered over the previously rendered metafile. Therefore, if you are displaying metafile billboards in your setup, be sure that they do not have areas which are not filled in. Otherwise, previously rendered metafiles may be visible. InstallShield does not support transparent billboards. Portions of billboards in the default transparent color (purple—RGB 255, 0, 255) will be displayed as purple.