Silent / unattended install

[tkroeckel]

Hello,

I've build an setup for a silent install. I checked in the 'Project Settings - Advanced' - Dialog the boxes
- "Enable silent/unattend install",
- "Start in silent mode" and
- "Hide taskbar icon".

Everything works fine, but when starting the setup programm, a screen with the message "Initializing" appears for a short time on the monitor.

Is it possible to disable this screen output, so that the setup runs completely silent without any screen information?



Any help is appreciated,
regards
Thomas

[Eagle]

fwiw, if you are running dependancy scripts and or using 'primer file-s',
the 'intializing' window can be more 'evident.'

It could be viewed that having it showing, indicates to end user
that something is taking place on their machine,
however the ability to Disable this showing would be handy,
I dont' think this can be done with the current version 7.0.4.0.

You could post a suggestion in that forum heading if you wish,
the Dev team always keep an out

[Darryl]

Hi tkroeckel,

Check out the /NOINIT option in the "Command Line Options" section of the help. I believe this is what you are looking for.

Hope that helps.

Darryl

[tkroeckel]

Hello Darryl,
thanks a lot, that's exactly what I needed.
Regards
Thomas

[asilvernail]

I have a new question about silent installs.
I have the silent install enabled when I build my setup.exe
When I try to run
setup.exe /S:config.ini
I get the error message
Invalid silent install INI file:config.ini

Here is my config file.
[SetupValues]
%AppFolder%=C:\Program Files\name
%ExeDir%=Release


I can run the setup.exe with no errors and it uses my default AppFolder and Exe Dir, but I want to be able to configure it.
Thanks

[asilvernail]

I am now able to run the installation in silent mode and include the config file in the command arguments without the invalid silent file error. Seems everything must be hard path.
Still a problem:
I have variables defined in the config file but the installation is still using defaults.

[Dnixon]

One of my clients runs my software with the silent install and it works perfect except that it is installing all of my shortcuts for the current user and not for all users. Is there an easy way to change this? Thanks.