Re: Message Popup Before Installer

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You just want a simple message box to open before anything gets installed
and warns the user? Typically in a setup the first page tells the user what
is going on and they hit the "next" button when they are ready, but maybe
you are trying to do everything silent except the warning?

Using any of those methods you talked about to send a pop up is workable.

However since this is a newsgroup for "SMS Installer" (a repackaging
utility) I'm going to assume you are using SMS Installer to create an
install setup. In that case it is very simple to issue a message box script
item to begin the script that the user can't cancel and must select OK which
then continues with the install.

Since you mentioned WISE installer below though it makes me think that you
aren't using SMS Installer as your install creator and maybe using WISE. If
that's the case then WISE has very similar script commands and a message box
can be opened that way.

If you are not using a tool like WISE or SMS Installer (or Admin Studio),
and just using SMS to install a package, you could create a simple package
around a vbscript and make that a dependency of your regular install
(specify that the vbscript package must run first), but that's a weird way
of doing it.

Terry


<Ess101@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1134380982.510587.274140@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> What is the easiest and reliable method for creating a message to popup
> before an installer runs? This pop will warn the user to save all work
> and close all programs.
>
> VBScript? Wise Installer? What method is best to use?
>
> Thanks in Advance,
> Ehsan
>


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