[izpack-users] Reg: Command Line User Inputs

[Miraodb]

Hi,

Sorry but i didn't see those lines.
i wasn't looking at the previous mails. my bad.
anyhow, i can see where you  heading and it's not something that izpack can
provide unfortunetely.
This has been asked a few times and i recall that some of us try to look for
a smooth  solution but couldn't get to it.

Having a fully text based installer with userinput ain't such an easy thing.
We would have to duplicate pretty much all panels to make them text based
and being called seperately depending on a parameter or something.

I'm sure it could be done, but how long it would take, who would have the
time and whillpower to do it? That's another question.

A few months ago, we talked about a project called CHARVA, which is a
toolkit for text terminals.
I remember that it could somehow transformed a swing GUI into text based
interface.

http://www.pitman.co.za/projects/charva/

it's probably worth a try. only thing is timing !

if the silent installer isn't enough, you'll probably either have to wait or
do it on your side.

If ANYONE has a better solution or any idea actually, please post it here
!!!!

Hope that clears up a bit the miscomprehension.
cheers,
fabrice
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Friend" <follow_from at yahoo.co.uk>
To: <izpack-users at berlios.de>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [izpack-users] Reg: Command Line User Inputs


> Hi Miraodb,
>
>   Thanks for your guidance,
>
>   I hope you may have seen these line before
>
>   > > I just studied and understood the silent installer
"auto-install.xml",
> > > but it is not helpful to sort out this problem,,
>
> This is what you are suggesting me to go with (i completed and this and am
expecting beyond that) but the thing is if am having the installer then I
should not think for one more script file ( or the sort ) to control our
installer by any ways. Installer should be one and one only as how we are
doing with GUI based installations. Silent-installer will not work out
always,, I cant predict the client environment. See I may have generated the
install.jar on Solaris 9 terminal and want to install the product on the
server that runs with or without any desktop.
>
>   I appretiate silent-installer of IzPack but want to have the console
based installer option from the same GUI based installer that we generate.
>
>   If it is not possible by this time we may inform Julien for our to do
list. Or any of you Friends may consider this feature for our future release
of IzPack :-)
>
>   regards,
>
>   Se.
>
>
>
>
> Miraodb <miraodb at hotmail.com> wrote:
>   hi,
>
> Here's my thoughts:
>
> In the FinishPanel, there's a button for generating an automated file
which
> can be used by izpack to run in command line without any user interaction.
> We can trick that to do your job.
>
> First you need to run your installer somewhere which can have the gui.
(with
> all aspects! ) Do it as if you were gonna install it on your Solaris 9.
> (leave the userinputs empty)
> Once you click on the button to generate the xml file. you can edit it and
> replace the empty strings with a specific variable name of your choice.
> let's say you have:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Then with a simple SH script you can look for the "xxxxxxxxx" string and
> replace it with the user input that your script would have asked for
> previously.
>
> Then all you have to do is launch your installer with the xml file as a
> parameter: java -jar yourinstaller.jar yourfile.xml
>
> hope this helps.
> fabrice
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Friend"
> To:
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 7:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [izpack-users] Reg: Command Line User Inputs
>
>
> > Hi Hal,
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your sharing,
> >
> > Am stating that there will not be any graphics rendering or windowing
> related software on the server side, even to have the X11 events,,
> >
> > Am working on Solaris 9 platform.
> >
> > All we have even at the server machine's screen is the console and bash
> shell prompt that it provides to interact with the server, thats it.
> >
> > There we want the user(server admin may be) to have our product
> installed from our GUI installer just by finguring necessary user input
> values at the shell prompt, eventhough ours is the GUI installer.
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Se.
> >
> > Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > On Monday 23 January 2006 11:33 pm, Friend wrote:
> > > Hi Friends,
> > >
> > > Hope you all well,
> > >
> > > As with all your guidance and help I successfully completed writing
the
> > > installer for the product which am working for,
> > >
> > > At last I came to understand that there is a need for installing the
> > > product with the same installer in the environment where there will
not
> be
> > > any GUI desktops at the high profile clients at times, even they only
> allow
> > > us to connect to their server through Secure SHells, the problem is
> still
> > > we need to have the user input read from the console's (character
based
> > > screen's) command prompt one by one including the installpath. Need a
> way
> > > to do this...
> > >
> > > I just studied and understood the silent installer "auto-install.xml",
> > > but it is not helpful to sort out this problem,,
> > >
> > > Friends, please guide me on this issue.
> >
> > You've probably thought of this, but just in case, let me ask this: If
> you're
> > logging in through ssh, is it on some breed of Unix/BSD/Linux where you
> can
> > forward X11 events? I do that on some of my systems. That way I can run
a
> > command in the command line, on ssh, and it opens the window on my
> computer.
> >
> > Hal
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