If you happens to know how to launch the application in quite(silent) mode,
please let me know.
Thanks.
________________________________
From: little.forest <little.for...@ymail.com>
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
<wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:00:16 AM
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to force to launch application in silent install
mode?
Thanks Sascha.
It's good to know that the InstallUISequence is never executed in quite mode.
But in another case, I set a property in command line argument, it seems
working. I mean, we have a checkbox called "Install Quick Launch shortcut". By
default it's off. So the quick launch shortcut isn't created by default. In
command line, I added this 'INSTALLQUICKLAUNCHSHORTCUT="1"' in command line,
then in quite installation, the quick launch shortcut was created. So it seems
working. I wonder why the similar case for "Launch application" on the final
page would be different? I thought it's supposed to work the same way as the
quick launch shortcut, right?
Let me know if you know the reason.
By the way, the reason we need to launch the application in quite installation
is because these:
we have an auto-update mechanism. The idea is, the application will
periodically check if there is any new build available in our provisioning
server. If there is any new version, then ask the end user if she wants to
download it and install it. If the end user says yes, then we'll download it
and install it. After installation of the new version, we'd like to
automatically launch the application, because the previous status of the
application was in running state. This is just like when you update your
browser like Firefox or Chrome. I think it's okay if the application isn't
launched by default in quite mode. But by setting some kind of property, the
application will be launched in quite mode. This will satisfy both the network
admin scenario as what you mentioned, and our case.
Anyways, since it's not supported, I'll think about if I can schedule this
launching action in our bootstrapper - we have a bootstrapper for the
installer.
Thanks again.
________________________________
From: Sascha Beaumont <sascha.beaum...@gmail.com>
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
<wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 8:06:13 PM
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to force to launch application in silent install
mode?
In quite mode, the InstallUISequence is never executed, so the
checkbox doesn't even really "exist" (only the property related to the
checkbox)
The documentation shows how to tie in execution to when the user
clicks the "Finish" button - this button never exists and is never
pushed in a silent installation so the application will never launch.
Launching an application automatically during a quiet installation
sounds like a *really bad idea* - what if someone pushes out the
installation via Group Policy? How does your application handle being
executed under a system administrator account with no desktop to
interact with?
Your best bet is to schedule the application to launch at next login
using the RunOnce registry key, and then forcing a reboot
post-install. That way you can be certain the application will launch
in a user context, rather than in an elevated context - even though
the reboot may be an inconvenience at least you'll end up with a more
reliable setup thats isn't dependent on "how" the user chooses to
install (command line, elevated, non-elevated, group policy, quiet,
interactive, etc).
Sascha
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:50 PM, little.forest <little.for...@ymail.com> wrote:
> In our code, we have this:
>
> <Property Id="WIXUI_EXITDIALOGOPTIONALCHECKBOX" Value="1" />
>
>
> So the checkbox is checked by default. I thought that means "launch the
> application by default". But the application was not launched in
> quite(silent) mode:
> msiexec /i myapp.msi /qr
>
> I then tried to set property in command line, it didn't work either:
> msiexec /i myapp.msi WIXUI_EXITDIALOGOPTIONALCHECKBOX="1" /qr
>
> Do you know how to automatically launch the application in quiet(silent) mode?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: little.forest <little.for...@ymail.com>
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 2:20:58 PM
> Subject: [WiX-users] How to force to launch application in silent install
> mode?
>
> I'd like to know how to force to launch the application in silent install
> mode. I thought this would work:
>
> msiexec /i myapp.msi WIXUI_EXITDIALOGOPTIONALCHECKBOX="1" /qr
>
> But after installation, the application wasn't launched. By the way, we use
> the 'standard' way from Wix.chm("How To: Run the Installed Application After
> Setup") for the 'launch application'. How can I make the application run
> anyways after a silent installation?
>
> By the way, from the log, the CustomAction "LaunchApplication" never run. I
> don't know why it didn't run.
>
> Thanks.
> /Brian
>
>
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