System and method of providing multiple installation actions
First Claim
1. A method in a computer system for displaying on a display device a component install action selection screen for an installation application, the installation application adapted to perform install actions for a plurality of constituent components of an application program suite, comprising the steps of:
- displaying a first list of the plurality of constituent components;
obtaining a second list of available install actions for each of the plurality of constituent components;
displaying one of the available install actions in proximity to each of the plurality of constituent components of the first list;
displaying version information and disk space requirements for each of the plurality of constituent components; and
displaying a coloring difference between a plurality of constituent components that are in the process of installing or are already installed versus a plurality of constituent components that are set to install but are not installed.
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Abstract
A system and method are presented for a suite integration toolkit (SIT) allowing for the provision and display of a rich set of installation actions. The user interface (UI) provides a list box interface having pull down menus for the display and selection of component defined installation actions. Preferably the SIT is used to install a suite of applications having multiple components and sub-components. These components and sub-components are displayed with the install action selected and disk space required displayed. The UI also provides a summation of the required disk space of only those components that will actually be installed, taking into consideration and excluding from the summation required components that are already installed. An interface method is implemented by each of the components to expose a method to allow the SIT to query the component for its available installation actions and results.
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5 Claims
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1. A method in a computer system for displaying on a display device a component install action selection screen for an installation application, the installation application adapted to perform install actions for a plurality of constituent components of an application program suite, comprising the steps of:
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displaying a first list of the plurality of constituent components; obtaining a second list of available install actions for each of the plurality of constituent components; displaying one of the available install actions in proximity to each of the plurality of constituent components of the first list; displaying version information and disk space requirements for each of the plurality of constituent components; and displaying a coloring difference between a plurality of constituent components that are in the process of installing or are already installed versus a plurality of constituent components that are set to install but are not installed. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing steps comprising:
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obtaining a first list of a plurality of constituent components of a suite to be installed; displaying the first list of the plurality of constituent components; obtaining a second list of available install actions for each of the plurality of constituent components; displaying one of the available install actions in proximity to each of the plurality of constituent components of the first list; displaying version information and disk space requirements for each of the plurality of constituent components; and displaying a coloring difference between a plurality of constituent components that are in the process of installing or are already installed versus a plurality of constituent components that are set to install but are not installed.
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