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[Dummy]

Hi,

We're currently developing a set of installers which includes a main installer and several sub-installers. The sub-installers are called from the script of the main installer. ie., at run time, the main installer will enumerate and call each of the sub-installers packaged as a single self-extracting executable files in a specific directory. Since each sub-installer requires no user interaction during a successful installation, we don't want to display the startup dialog to the user. The startup dialog here is the initial dialog containing "<ProductName> Setup is preparing the InstallShield Wizard, which will guide you through the rest of the setup process. Please wait."

I know that in InstallShield Developer, we can do this simply by inserting a line "UI=0" under the "[startup]" section in "setup.ini". Unfortunately, this doesn't work in InstallShield Pro.

Any help or suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Chau.

[Taco Bell]

Were the sub-installers made into a single executable by directly using InstallShield,  by using PackageForTheWebWizard, or a little of both?

[Dummy]

I first tried to make them single self-executables using InstallerShield media wizard. It didn't work.

I then tried to make them as CDROM images and used PackageForTheWeb to pack each of them as a single executable. In the main installer script, I call them using "LaunchAppAndWait" with "/s" option for command line arguments. The very first startup dialog showing that self-extracting is performing was suppressed. The initial dialog, the one with "Setup is preparing the InstallShield Wizard.... Please wait", however was still being displayed.

Chau.