Windows Installer Editor Reference
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Setup Editor
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To display a component’s contents, click the component in the left pane. The
contents appear in the upper-right pane. You also can expand the component so
that its contents appear in the components tree.
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To expand or collapse a selected component’s children, use the right-click menu.
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To customize the icons that appear in the components tree, right-click in the left
pane and select Customize View. In the Customize View dialog box that appears,
mark the check boxes of the items to display, and rearrange items by clicking Move
Up or Move Down.
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To quickly organize the items on the Components tab:
Drag an item from the upper-right pane to a different component on the left
pane.
In the left pane, drag an entire component item group from one component to
another.
Adding an item to a component
Do either of the following in Setup Editor > Components tab:
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Right-click the component name. Select New and the item to add.
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Expand the component. If necessary, show empty folders. Right-click the icon for a
particular item and select New.
If an icon does not appear, right-click and use the Customize View dialog box to
show the icon.
Items you can add on the Components tab
Most of these items can also be added in Installation Expert.
Component
See
Adding and Editing a Component
on page 374.
Folder
See
Creating a Folder in Setup Editor
on page 371.
Duplicate file entry
See
Creating Duplicate File Entries
on page 371.
Environment variable
See
Adding an Environment Variable
on page 153.
File association
See
Advertising Icon
on page 370.
See
Adding File Associations
on page 154.
File
See
Adding Files to an Installation
on page 109.
INI file
See
Creating and Editing .INI Files
on page 149.
Isolated component
See
Isolating a .DLL With an .EXE
on page 379.
ODBC source, driver, or
translator
See
Adding an ODBC Item
on page 160.
Published component
See
Adding Published Components
on page 379.
Registry key
See
Adding Registry Keys
on page 141.
Service control
See
Controlling Services on the Destination Computer
on page 159.
Service
See
Adding a Service to the Destination Computer
on
page 157.