understanding AutoIT?

[McSnoop]

I have a couple of programms which I want so integrate as silent Installer in my DVD. Now I'm landed by AutoIT because integrating Serials oder Names and so on, some Appz needs it.

Have I understand it right, that AutoIT must be installed before I can run the Silent Installer if in the Installer is an au3 file integrated? My other Silent Installer I always make with param switches and it works.

greetz

McSnoop

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

No you only need to have autoit installed to make & compile thats it.

[slipk487]

like mavericks said. all you have to do is use autoit to compile the au3 file into and exe and then just run that to execute the script.

[McSnoop]

thx i found it, now i can make the au3 files ^^ and create the installer.

<closed> ^^

[Jolli]

I can recommend to you some german sites, where you can find and look for existing Scripts.

German Autoit: http://www.autoit.de/

German nLite: http://www.german-nlite.de/forum.html

So long, Jolli

[bizzozero]

hi MSFN this is my first post here, i've been really imperssed by the effort you're putting to make life eaiser for a lot of people, i'm a newbie to this field and autoit has been kind ambiguous software for me and i couldn't understand how to use it, i've tried to read the help file and couldn't understand it could anyone please post a small tutorial; images or video explaining how to use it for creating silent installer

thanks in advance , see you around

[Arie]

hi MSFN this is my first post here, i've been really imperssed by the effort you're putting to make life eaiser for a lot of people, i'm a newbie to this field and autoit has been kind ambiguous software for me and i couldn't understand how to use it, i've tried to read the help file and couldn't understand it could anyone please post a small tutorial; images or video explaining how to use it for creating silent installer

thanks in advance , see you around

You seem to be somewhat confused. To keep it as simple as possible, when you normally install an application you click for example "Next", "Next", mark a few checkboxes, et cetera and click "Finish". You can automate this process using AutoIT, that's all. If you would automate an installation using AutoIT and you would like to have a silent installer, you would still need to package your application. But please note that you hardly need to use AutoIT for automating any installations.

Most applications allow command line parameters to configure their installation, so instead of automating the installation using AutoIT, you could simply run the installation like this for example: setup.exe /silent /components:main (this is of course just an example which I made up myself). You can then create self-extracting, silent installer packages using for example 7ZIP or WinRAR which automatically launches the installation with the required parameters.

I personally need to use AutoIT for only two applications: DNL Reader and GMail Drive (and perhaps even those could have been via other means, but I haven't found out how anyway ). For all my other applications I created my own self-extracting, silent installer packages. All applications which can be installed via SVCPACK are installed via SVCPACK. Applications which cannot be installed via SVCPACK are installed via RunOnceEx, straight from DVD.

[radix]

hi MSFN this is my first post here, i've been really imperssed by the effort you're putting to make life eaiser for a lot of people, i'm a newbie to this field and autoit has been kind ambiguous software for me and i couldn't understand how to use it, i've tried to read the help file and couldn't understand it could anyone please post a small tutorial; images or video explaining how to use it for creating silent installer

thanks in advance , see you around

You can find a video tutorial with audio track in bulgarian language here

For me it was useful some months ago.

[bizzozero]

thank you folks, but i still don't know how to find those silent switches for newly released softs

[Arie]

thank you folks, but i still don't know how to find those silent switches for newly released softs

Click here and also see all subcatagories.

[bizzozero]

hi MSFN this is my first post here, i've been really imperssed by the effort you're putting to make life eaiser for a lot of people, i'm a newbie to this field and autoit has been kind ambiguous software for me and i couldn't understand how to use it, i've tried to read the help file and couldn't understand it could anyone please post a small tutorial; images or video explaining how to use it for creating silent installer

thanks in advance , see you around

You seem to be somewhat confused. To keep it as simple as possible, when you normally install an application you click for example "Next", "Next", mark a few checkboxes, et cetera and click "Finish". You can automate this process using AutoIT, that's all. If you would automate an installation using AutoIT and you would like to have a silent installer, you would still need to package your application. But please note that you hardly need to use AutoIT for automating any installations.

Most applications allow command line parameters to configure their installation, so instead of automating the installation using AutoIT, you could simply run the installation like this for example: setup.exe /silent /components:main (this is of course just an example which I made up myself). You can then create self-extracting, silent installer packages using for example 7ZIP or WinRAR which automatically launches the installation with the required parameters.

I personally need to use AutoIT for only two applications: DNL Reader and GMail Drive (and perhaps even those could have been via other means, but I haven't found out how anyway ). For all my other applications I created my own self-extracting, silent installer packages. All applications which can be installed via SVCPACK are installed via SVCPACK. Applications which cannot be installed via SVCPACK are installed via RunOnceEx, straight from DVD.

thanks again mate , but i think that autoit is better when it comes to registering the softwares , the silent switches save time only for the installation process but they don't provide us with a possibility to reduce that time spent entering the registration keys and settings,(as i know) alos the autoit script aren't much complex they are quite easy to make, the question now is whether it's possible to make an n-lite addons using autoit exes?

thank you in advance folks

[radix]

the question now is whether it's possible to make an n-lite addons using autoit exes?

Yes. Copy the compiled script in the same folder with installer and make a sfx archive; then place it in svcpack folder and point to it in [AddProgram] section of entries.ini. Or copy the compiled script and the

installer file/s in svcpack folder and point to compiled script in [AddProgram] section of entries.ini.