Formatting Capabilities of Installer Text Fields
Formatting Capabilities of Installer Text Fields
- Subject: Formatting Capabilities of Installer Text Fields
- From: Hunter Pence <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:51:54 -0500
Hello!
Here is my short and probably not-so-simple
question:
Are tabs, document hyperlinks, or bookmarks
supported in any way within the installer UI text fields? Are there any
other text formatting options available that can display multiple pages
or tabs?
Background:
I am trying to build a distribution
that requires me to display more than 1 license agreement at install time
(3rd party software requirements). I've been exploring options on how to
display the multiple licenses in a way that is not confusing or messy for
the end user (such as displaying the EULAs outside the context of the installer,
or forcing the user to run multiple installers).
Is there any way the installer text
fields can support tabs? I've tried this through using html files with
CSS, but it appears the text interpreter ignores CSS (please correct me
if I'm wrong).
Is there any way the installer text
fields can support links to other documents on the installer media? Web
address hyperlinks appear to work by launching Safai to the specified URL,
but I have not been able to get them to work for loading a text file on
the installer media or local HD. The link text automatically turns blue
and is underlined, but clicking it has no effect.
Is there any way the installer text
fields can support links to bookmarks/tags within the current document?
The only solution I've come up with that might work is appending all the
EULAs together into one monolithic text file. This is not a very graceful
way of displaying multiple licenses, but it could be made better if I insert
a summary at the top of the document that contained links that would "jump
down" to the proper license. However, the standard way of doing this
in HTML does not appear to work (declare html id="foo", then
hyperlink to "#foo"). The link text is blue and underlined, but
clicking on it has no effect. As far as I know, there is no way of doing
this in an RTF document.
Are there any other methods available
to accomplish the goal of displaying multiple text documents in an organized
way that doesn't require a custom installer plugin?
Thanks in advance!
-Hunter
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