Eugene234
30th September 2011 10:16 UTC

Splash screen in silent mode
Hi all,

I've faced with strange behavior. I'm trying to run NSIS installer in silent mode, but at the start of installation process i see the splash message box with "please wait while setup is loading" text in it. How can I remove this splash mess.box to make installer execute totally silently?

Thanks a lot in advance.

T.Slappy
30th September 2011 12:40 UTC

I am not sure about it because this box is hard coded, but guick idea:
in .onInit of .onGUIInit try to FindWindow and simply hide it with SendMessage

LoRd_MuldeR
30th September 2011 15:35 UTC

Use IfSilent to skip the code that shows the splash screen...

Function .onInit
  IfSilent SkipSplashScreen
  ;Put the code to display splash screen here
  SkipSplashScreen:
FunctionEnd

demiller9
30th September 2011 16:01 UTC

I thought Eugene234 was referring to the CRC check message. If that is what he is seeing, then he cannot hide it in .onInit because the nsi script has not started executing yet. It can be disabled from the command line with /NCRC or a script command CRCCheck off

LoRd_MuldeR
30th September 2011 16:23 UTC

I see. Didn't know that silent installers will still show a banner while running the CRC check.

However disabling the CRC check probably is not a very good idea...

Eugene234
3rd October 2011 06:09 UTC

Thank you for replies..

So it seems this splash screen occurs during some initial checks (such as CRS)...
Unfortunately I'm not able to hide it with /NCRC command line option. Are there any other ways to hide it? Do you know in which version of NSIS this feature was introduced?

Afrow UK
3rd October 2011 10:47 UTC

You could try deleting the dialog resource from the UI using Resource Hacker. The UIs are in Contrib\UIs.

Stu

T.Slappy
4th October 2011 06:06 UTC

Originally posted by Afrow UK
You could try deleting the dialog resource from the UI using Resource Hacker. The UIs are in Contrib\UIs.

Stu