A mostly silent install

rtomsmith · Post by **rtomsmith** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:08 am

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.

rtomsmith · Post by **rtomsmith** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:57 am

Any help on this, please?

Gizm0 · Post by **Gizm0** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 4:51 pm

Unfortunatelly, the decompressing dialog cannot be hidden..

rtomsmith · Post by **rtomsmith** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:03 pm

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.

MichaelNesmith · Post by **MichaelNesmith** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 10:00 pm

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.