InstallAware

I am creating an installer (single EXE) to be delivered over the Web. I want it to be "mostly silent", where there might be only one visible dialog (e.g. a completion notice).

Since the user invokes the installer by clicking a URL, there is really no way to pass the "/s" flag on a command line. I could handle the "silent" aspects myself in the script, of course, but the problem is the self-extractor. It seems to always display its verifying/decompressing dialog, and that doesn't meet my requirements.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

Any help on this, please?

Unfortunatelly, the decompressing dialog cannot be hidden..

Well, that's certainly bad news.

Then let me take this opportunity to make an "official" feature request: Please consider adding a Build setting that will signal the decompressor to not display its progress. Thanks.

What you could do is wrap our EXE inside your own EXE which would call our EXE with the "/s" parameter. I'm not sure how your web-launch mechanism works, so this is pretty much all the advice I can offer for now.