ahudson opened this issue on Nov 05, 2007 · 105 posts
Stepdad posted Sat, 29 December 2007 at 1:06 AM
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OH I SO AGREE!!!
Big change though and would only work for zip files, not Daz installers (without serious work). I will think about this though. I can't say it will be imminent much as I would like it to be so.
Well, if I understood how the program works it essentially "hijacks" the daz install process by feeding it parameters already, so I can't imagine it would be too difficult to just have the program install all the runtime info to a dummy directory and copy it over from there just as if it were a zip.
True. Still, the renaming bit would be tricky and it would invalidate the Daz installers uninstall routines.
Hmm.... but that would be simple enough to work around I would think, install everything without the "uninstall" feature from daz, and just incorporate an uninstall feature in your own program instead. Since the idea is they'll be using your program have it keep a log file of what it installed and where and give it the ability to uninstall them instead, bypass the daz installer almost entirely.
Truth be told what little I have from Daz I never use there uninstaller routines anyway, more of a pain that what their worth. I don't want 20 or 30 extra entries in my add and remove programs menu, enough crap in there already :)
Stepdad