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Bug 39665 - "-console" parameter doesn't work well
Summary: "-console" parameter doesn't work well
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: installer
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Code (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: issues@installer
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Reported: 2004-02-05 16:30 UTC by zikmund
Modified: 2004-06-07 15:17 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description zikmund 2004-02-05 16:30:53 UTC
Using parameter "-console" to installator shows
Welcome message and then silently finishes without
installing.
Tested on linux (RedHat 9 / JDS 1.0) with beta
build 200402042050.

SOLUTION:
Test if running in console and write out an error
message "Please run as non console application".
Comment 1 George Hernandez 2004-02-06 20:13:30 UTC
The -console was not a requirement for the 3.6 installers and is
stated as such in the engineering plan. Closing as invalid. This could
also be reopened as an enhancement for 4.0.
Comment 2 zikmund 2004-02-09 09:35:05 UTC
OK, I'd like to ask you to investigate if there is any simple way how
to disable "-console" parameter. I think it would be better to
a) ignore parameter,
b) print information "not supported parameter",
c) something like that.
(Some of this solution could be a bit more user friendly, I think)

If it would be complicated, let's change it to ENH for promo-D.
Comment 3 George Hernandez 2004-02-13 21:51:05 UTC
diabled console mode in dev build 2/13.
Comment 4 zikmund 2004-02-19 19:12:07 UTC
Still reproducible with build 200402181900 on W2K SP3.
Reopening.
Comment 5 George Hernandez 2004-02-28 22:03:50 UTC
I had to reinstate the console mode because the installers panels were
failing without them. After doing this I forgot to reopen this bug.
Thanks for catching this Karel. It turns out that in order to remove
the console mode switch, that means I need to reimplement all our
current panels to extend a different InstallShield class, WizardPanel
instead of ExtendedWizardPanel. I am not ready to do this at this
time. Also, since this was not a requirement as stated in my
engineering plan, I'm making this an enhancement request.
Comment 6 zikmund 2004-06-03 09:59:26 UTC
Console mode implemented in 4.0. Marking as Fixed.
Comment 7 zikmund 2004-06-07 15:17:09 UTC
Verified.