kahuna83
18th November 2011 16:29 UTC

passive installer with nsis
ji everybody,

i found an installer which was made with nsis i think

http://www2.kodakdental.com/files/dr...uprvgtwain.exe

if i used the "/S" parameter at command line the instfiles page is shown as you can see here:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...benanntby.jpg/

could somebody told me how to do this. if i use the "/S" on my installers there will be no window shown.

MSG
18th November 2011 16:44 UTC

NSIS does (almost) nothing automatically. If you want your installer to respond to a parameter, you have to code that behavior yourself.

First step, the manual: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/AppendixE.html#E.1.11

Anders
18th November 2011 16:50 UTC

Try something like this:

outfile test.exe
requestexecutionlevel user
InstallDir "$programfiles\myapp"
!include LogicLib.nsh

page directory SkipPageIfSilent
page components SkipPageIfSilent
page instfiles

Var MySilent

Function .onInit
${If} ${Silent}
SetSilent normal
StrCpy $MySilent 1
SetAutoClose true
${EndIf}
FunctionEnd

Function SkipPageIfSilent
${IfThen} $MySilent <> 0 ${|} Abort ${|}
FunctionEnd

section
Sleep 333
Sleep 333
Sleep 333
Sleep 333
sectionend

MSG
18th November 2011 17:20 UTC

Ah yes, I keep forgetting about the bloody silent flag. Hate that feature. ~_~