Launcher Wizard: Configure Windows Version Info Resource

  In this step of the launcher wizard, you can configure whether a version info resource should be generated for the Microsoft Windows executable and what values the version info fields should take. This step is only relevant for Microsoft Windows and is important if your application wants to obtain the "Designed for Windows" logo.

Note: this advanced option screen is reachable by selecting the "Executable" step and choosing "Windows version info" from the Advanced options popup menu or by clicking directly on the index.

  A version info resource will enable the Windows operating system to determine meta information about your executable. This information is displayed in various locations. For example, when opening the property dialog for the executable in the Windows explorer, a "Version" tab will be present in the property dialog if you have chosen to generate the version info resource.

The version info resource consists of several pieces of information. If you check Generate version info resource, there are several fields whose values must be entered in the text fields on this step. Note that the "original file name", the "company name", the "product name" and the "product version" fields in the version info resource are filled in automatically by install4j.

  • Product name
    By default, the full name configured in the general settings is used by this value. If you want to use another value, you can enter it here.
  • File version
    If you want to specify a version for the file which is a different from the product version, you can do it here. If this field is left empty, the product version entered on the Application Info tab of the General Settings step will be used for the file version.
  • Internal name
    Choose a short internal name for identifying your application.
  • File description
    Enter a description of the application.
  • Legal copyright
    Enter a copyright statement for your application.