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Visual Installer: Where do I handle my setup dialog boxes?

The setup dialog boxes (the setup wizard) is a very important part of an installation. Via these dialog boxes you can give the user important information about the installation and let the user choose for example an installation folder, drive, program group, or ask for a license key or password. The setup dialog boxes are also a good opportunity to give your users a great first impression of your product or your company.

In our installation tool Visual Installer the setup dialog boxes are handled in the Dialog boxes tab of the editor (see the picture below).

Visual Installer

The following tip page will explain for you in detail how to choose setup dialog boxes to an installation, how to add text to the setup dialog boxes and how to change image for the setup dialog boxes. If you are new to Visual Installer we recommend you to read this tip page:

> Setup dialog boxes: How to choose dialog boxes, add text & change image

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Visual Installer: Images for the setup dialog boxes

There are many ready-to-use images included in our installation tool SamLogic Visual Installer that can be used together with the setup dialog boxes (the setup wizard) that are shown for the end-user when he/she runs an installation. This video on YouTube shows some samples of dialog box images that follows Visual Installer.

More information about the built-in setup dialog box images in Visual Installer is available on this web page:
> Visual Installer: New setup dialog box pictures has been included

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Video: Getting Started with Visual Installer

We have published a tutorial video on our website that helps you get started with our easy-to-use installation tool Visual Installer. The video shows how to create a basic setup project; for example how to start a new project, how to choose an installation folder for an installation, how to add files and how to specify texts for the installation dialog boxes. The video also shows how to save a project and how to build (compile) a setup package.

Getting Started with Visual Installer

Click here to watch the videoYou can view the tutorial video on this page:
> Getting Started with Visual Installer – Video

The tutorial is also available as text based tip pages. If you prefer the text version of the tutorial, you can go to this webpage:
> Getting Started with Visual Installer

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ComponentSource is a new reseller for SamLogic’s products

ComponentSourceComponentSource, the world’s largest reseller of software components and development tools, is now an official reseller for SamLogic Software’s products, and will sell our tools for developers and designers. From ComponentSource you can from now buy the following three products from SamLogic:

> SamLogic CD-Menu Creator
> SamLogic USB AutoRun Creator
> SamLogic Visual Installer

ComponentSource Customer Services representatives speak many languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Cantonese, and Mandarin, and are available to assist you with all of your sales and technical queries about the three products listed above. If you have questions about our products and prefer to talk or write in other language than English (for example in Spanish or German) it can be a good idea to contact ComponentSource and ask your questions.

You can call ComponentSource free of charge in 47 countries. You can also send an email to the following e-mail address: sales@componentsource.com

Related links
> SamLogic Software’s products on ComponentSource
> You can call ComponentSource toll free in 47 countries
> About ComponentSource

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SamLogic’s tools adapted to Windows 8.1

All of SamLogic’s programs, and other tools, are now adapted to the new Microsoft Windows 8.1. But the software also work fine with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and some other older operating systems. If you want more information about a specific product, you can click on a link below:

Programs
> CD-Menu Creator – AutoRun menu designer program.
> USB AutoRun Creator – AutoRun USB stick creator.
> Visual Installer – Installation software / setup tool.
> MultiMailer – Newsletter / e-mail marketing software.

Product suites / Bundles
> Media Tools – Program bundle with 5 tools.
> USB Menu Creator – Program bundle with 3 tools.

We have also tested our component libraries in Windows 8.1, and they are fully compatible. If you want to test a program you can visit the web page below:
> Download a Demo / Free Trial

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Is Visual Installer a good replacement for Wise installer?

Wise Installation Studio, Wise Installation Express and Wise Package Studio were three excellent installation tools created by the American company Wise Solutions, Inc and later maintained by Symantec Corporation, but these products have now been discontinued and are not supported anymore. So it is not possible to buy these setup tools today, and there are no new updates or service packs available anymore either. If you still use Wise for your installation projects you may encounter some compatibility problems when new versions of Windows are released. This article on our website explains more:

> Can I Replace Wise Installer with Visual Installer?

The article also discusses why it can be a good idea to use Visual Installer instead of Wise to your forthcoming installation projects.

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CD-Menu Creator: How to use the Picture Gallery

We have added a new tip to the Tips & Tricks section of our web site. The tip explains how to use the Picture Gallery feature in SamLogic CD-Menu Creator.

The Picture Gallery is a special window that displays all images in a specified folder on a CD, DVD or USB flash drive. It can also be used to play videos.

Click here to read the tip. The tip assumes that you have SamLogic CD-Menu Creator 2014 or later installed in your computer. If not, you can download a trial version of CD-Menu Creator from this download page.

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How to use SamLogic’s Windows applications on a Mac

We are often asked about if our programs are available in Mac versions. Even though we have no dedicated Mac versions of our programs, you can still easily use them on a Mac (Macintosh) computer. All you have to do is to install a virtualization software on your Mac that allows you to install and run Windows on it. With help of such virtualization software you can use our programs on a Mac just as you would do it on a PC with Windows. The virtualization software lets you run Windows and Mac OS X on your computer at the same time. This has several other advantages, such as allowing you to copy data between programs running on different operating systems.
SamLogic's Windows applications can also be used on a Mac
There are several available virtualization programs that you can use. Among the best ones are VMware Fusion, Parallels Desktop and Oracle VirtualBox.

Apple has developed its own product called Boot Camp that allows running Windows operating system on a Mac. However, Apple’s Boot Camp requires to reboot your computer when switching between Windows and Mac OS X which it is not very smooth. Boot Camp is included in Mac OS X version 10.5 and later.

To read more about Apple’s Boot Camp and how it is used, click here:
> Using Windows on Mac via Boot Camp

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Half of all newsletters is opened on a mobile device

More and more people open their newsletters on mobile devices. According to a study done by Experian Marketing Services is half of all emails opened solely on a mobile device, compared to 23 percent for both email clients and web clients.

Important to use the right email software
This means that it is increasingly important to use a newsletter software that is designed for creating email newsletters that display properly on mobile devices. The MultiMailer 2013 email marketing software is designed for just that.

There is couple of things good to know about and consider when creating a newsletter that is to be read on mobile devices. In this article on our website we have compiled useful tips for you.

More information
> Experian Marketing Services study “Quarterly Email Benchmark Study Q2 2013” (PDF)
> Mobile Email – How to create a newsletter for a mobile phone and smart phone
> Responsive Email Design: One newsletter for a smartphone, tablet, laptop & desktop computer
> Android – The Rise to Success

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The Picture Gallery in CD-Menu Creator

A powerful feature in CD-Menu Creator is the Picture Gallery, that displays all pictures in a folder on a CD/DVD or USB flash drive in a special window. The pictures are clickable and by clicking on a picture the picture will be shown in its original size in a separate window. It is also possible to make the picture gallery to open another file type instead of the picture when a user clicks on the picture; for example a movie.

Picture Gallery

We have added a new button command to CD-Menu Creator with the name Open Picture Gallery that can be used to open the picture gallery window.

New button command: Open Picture Gallery

By using this button command and by specifying a folder path, you can display all pictures in a specific folder on a CD, DVD or USB flash drive in the picture gallery window.

More information
> CD-Menu Creator – Picture Gallery