Firstclass 8.0

[amp_man]

Anyone know how to get this (the client version) to work unattended? It appears to be InstallShield, but the setup.iss in the same directory still gives me setup screens. The client can be downloaded (completely legally) from here. I have already tried searching the website to no avail

[Lagslide]

I've just started looking into this unattended stuff last night, but I've been making custom FC installers for years, and starting with FC8 it's become a very trivial task.

This should work if my first hours of reading has paid off

$OEM$/$Progs/FirstClass/fcc32.exe

$OEM$/$$/System32/fc.ico

fcsettings.reg

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FCIC32\DefaultIcon]

@="%SystemRoot%\\System32\\fc.ico"

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Custom settingsfiles goes into $OEM$/$Progs/FirstClass/settings/*.fc

fcc32.exe will autogenerate all needed files, folders & registry entries (including "mapping" <.fc> to <fcic32> for legacy reasons) except the settingsfile icon and it's "association" to .fc (fcic32). It will also copy (all in $Progs/FirstClass) /Download, /fcp, /plugins, /settings and /tools along with their contents to <current user>/My Documents/FirstClass on every run if they doesn't exist to accomodate multi user environments.

[amp_man]

thanks....I actually emailed firstclass tech support, and they told me that FC8 doesn't rely on reg entries at all, so you could simply create a winrar sfx and extract the contents of the program files directory (or now, as I find out, just fcc32.exe), then create the shortcuts in the $Docs folder. Haven't confirmed if either method works yet, will tomorrow