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1 : Installing and Starting Work with Acronis TrueImage Deluxe
Progress Bar
A progress bar is a purely informative dialog element (it is not a control). It is used
to display the current state of some lengthy process (copying a partition etc.).
1.5.6
Special Dialog Types
Wizard
A Wizard is a dialog that allows displaying and editing information in several
pages, like the properties dialog. Unlike the latter you can move along the
Wizard
’
s pages only in a one-after-another fashion. This makes it possible to
make the contents of later pages not fixed, but adjustable to the actions you
perform on earlier pages.
In the lower part of a Wizard page there always are 3 buttons:
•
<Back
moves you to the previous page. This button is disabled on the
first page.
•
Next>
takes you to the next page. On some pages this button can have
other names. On the last page this button finishes the Wizard and starts
the actions that you have chosen in it.
•
Cancel
exits the Wizard and negates all actions you were going to
perform. On some pages this button can have other names.
There is no
Help
button on Wizard pages. It is unnecessary because on each page
there is detailed information about the purpose of the page and its controls.
Moreover, there is detailed information about what possibilities you get if you select
any of controls in any possible state.
Almost all Acronis TrueImage Deluxe windows are Wizard pages.
