Re: [Tuxmath-devel] TuxMath [script install on Windows?]

[Baker, D. <db...@vu...>]

David,

Thank you, I tested it as well and it worked great, I tired with a lowercase "s" but is has to be capital.

Daniel Baker
Micro Computer Technician I, Technological Services
Visalia Unified School District
Tel: 559-730-7627

-----Original Message-----
From: David Bruce [mailto:dav...@gm...] 
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 7:00 AM
To: Bill Kendrick
Cc: Baker, Daniel; John Popplewell; Tux Math
Subject: Re: TuxMath [script install on Windows?]

Hi Daniel,

> Yes, TuxMath (and Tux Typing) uses NSIS.  Looking briefly through the 
> NSIS docs, it looks like NSIS itself has support for silent install, 
> but our use of NSIS doesn't support it because our simple NSIS setup 
> doesn't provide defaults for the user selections.

I take that back - it looks like we do support it after all, looking at our actual NSIS-related code.  We only use the built-in dialogs, and NSIS provides defaults for those.  I tested a command-line silent install on a windows XP system, and it worked fine:

tuxmath-1.7.2-win32-installer.exe /S

If you need to be able to pass arguments (e.g. install location), AFAICT we don't support that, but it seems that a basic silent install with the defaults can be done from the command line already.

Best,

David Bruce