Exercise 8.3 Using Rules to Control Visual Elements

Often, you'll want certain panels and/or other visual elements to appear only under certain conditions. For example, notes explaining errata on Windows shouldn't appear on Mac OS X. Like the installer rules, you can use rules to control visual elements in the Pre-Install and Post-Install tasks. In this next set of exercises, we'll introduce some elements of visual control and introduce a few of the available panels and other actions.

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Click Pre-Install task from the task list along the left-hand side of the InstallAnywhere advanced designer.
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Click Add Action near the middle of the screen. This step will open the action palette, which has several tabs for differing types of actions.
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