Installer elements can only be added to appropriate parent elements. If no appropriate parent element is selected, install4j tries to find one by moving in the ancestor hierarchy from the current selection. If no appropriate parent element can be found, an error message is displayed.
When the configuration area is focused, you can transfer the focus back to the tree of installer elements
with the keyboard by pressing ALT-F1
.
The tree of installer elements provides the following actions in the toolbar on the right that operate on the current selection. You can also access these actions from the context menu or use the associated keyboard shortcuts.
In order to visit all comments, you can use the [Show next comment] and [Show previous comment] actions. These actions will focus the comment area automatically and wrap around if no further comments can be found.
Pasted installer elements are appended to the end of the same level that would be chosen if you added installer elements of that type. Sequence restrictions with respect to the the already present installer elements may force a different order.
You can dissolve a group with the [Dissolve Group] action. This action is only enabled if the selection consists of a single screen group or action group. The elements contained in the group will be inserted in place of the group. Nested groups will not be dissolved.
In order to link to a screen, action, screen group or action group, you first select the installer
element and invoke the
[Copy Link] action. Then you
navigate to the installer element where the link should be inserted and invoke the
[Paste Link] action. The configuration area of a link will only contain a button that
selects the original definition in the tree of installer elements.
install4j ensures that there are no broken links in the tree of installer elements. When you delete an installer element, all links to it will be deleted as well. If that is the case, the deletion message will tell you how many links are about to be deleted.