Re: Hi, All,
Re: Hi, All,
- Subject: Re: Hi, All,
- From: Peter Bierman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 13:20:48 -0700
Why can't the client app/tool ask the user the first time it's run?
Adding user interaction during the install process makes it very
difficult to use that installer in any kind of automated situation,
such as university labs, ARD Managed environments, clusters, etc...
(See also: QuickTime registration panel during Software Update.)
For that reason we highly discourage people from launching
interactive apps or tools from the pre/post scripts.
-pmb
At 1:29 PM -0400 5/25/05, Dave Johnson wrote:
Hi, All,
Is running a separate application from e.g. preflight the only way
to get user input during the install process?
This seems like a common need that Installer could handle, but I've
not found any other way.
This post:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/installer-dev/2005/Feb/msg00002.html
seems to imply that launching an app is the only way.
My application is the client for a client-server application, and I
need to tell it which server to connect to.
I worked out an obscure way to do this using a Terminal window and
shell script, from preflight, but it looks like Tiger breaks what I
am doing.
A cocoa app to ask the question would look better anyway, but it
just seems like overkill to have an entire application that ships in
my install just to ask one little question and to get the result
into a file (or an environment variable would probably do) so that
postflight has it available for configuring the client app.
Thanks in advance for any help/advice/suggestions!
== dj
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