Package Files Panel

The left part of initial three pages contains a package files panel. The panel represents the installation package being prepared, as a tree. Leaf nodes of the tree are files included in the package. Non-leaf nodes represent the directory structure of installation. Top-level nodes represent abstract root directories. Each root directory is a destination directory for the installation. Actual location of root directories becomes known only at the install time. Root has a special symbolic name that starts with $, e.g. $(Root). A root directory may be referenced by its name from various places, such as command line arguments for shortcuts, etc. Some directories in the installation view, such as the “Uninstall.exe”, are system, and only a restricted set of operations can be performed on them.

To the left of a package files panel element, one of the following icons may appear:

		“new” or “application”: files and directories just added to the package;
		“identical”: files or directories that are parts of the previously created package for which the current package is an update; they are not included into the current package;
		“updated”: directories that contain just added or modified files that replace files in the previously created installation.

An icon may be surrounded by thin red border: It signals that the file or directory is “system”, i.e. it is automatically added to the package by Packager. There are the following types of system files:

• the uninstaller file “Uninstall.exe”

You cannot delete the system files.

The following icon may appear to the right of an element:

“absent”: marks files that do not exist or may not be used; directories that contain such files are also marked with the icon

The following buttons appear above the tree:

	Create a new directory in the installation.
	Remove the selected element from the installation.
	Rename the selected element.

The Show all files check box can be used to toggle the filtering of installation elements unnecessary for the current step.

The Show full path check box can be used to show full paths of the files included into installation.