Intercept a command?

[supraspecies]

Making a silent install for a program, but there is one thing installer does after it finishes: opens developer's homepage. CMD window is being called up when that happens. I'm wondering if I can somehow intercept that command so program wouldn't open its homepage at the end of the installation.

If I can't interpt command/CMD window, then maybe there is a way to close default browser in case it is being called up or something.

[MikahS]

If it brings up an IE window you could do something like this:

#include <IE.au3>

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode")

While 1
    closeWin()
    Sleep(100)
WEnd

Func closeWin()
    Local $oIE = _IEAttach("Internet Explorer", "windowtitle")
    If @error = 0 Then
        _IEQuit($oIE)
        Exit
    EndIf
EndFunc   ;==>closeWin

You could also probably use the:

WinClose()
WinKill()

functions as well.

[jguinch]

Which product are you installing ? Maybe its command line options can avoid this ?

If you close the browser, in will close all tabs. The user will be happy

[MikahS]

If you close the browser, in will close all tabs. The user will be happy

 

Agreed, but depends on the environment that this is being installed in.

[supraspecies]

Installing File Renamer Turbo from Kristanix. There is an /S switch, yes, but I don't want the program to be installed into default folder. So I'm running through setup dialogs with AutoIT and inserting my own path. If there are any other switches for silent/unattended install, I didn't see them being documented anywhere.

Solution with killing the window is very familiar to me, but as the program launches default browser (which can be anything), matching window title isn't easy. I was thinking along the lines of somehow intercepting or blocking the command that installer sends (supposedly just site address?). But so far I'm guessing there is no easy way around this.

Edited February 9, 2015 by supraspecies

[jguinch]

File Renamer Turbo installer seems to use NSIS.

So you can easily set the destination directory with /D=<Destination> :

RunWait("filerenamerturbo-setup.exe /S /D=c:\apps\FileRenamerTurbo") ; replace it by your path

Edited February 9, 2015 by jguinch

[supraspecies]

Oh, thanks a lot!