Comments on: STX Installer http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2005/11/03/stx-installer-2/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:34:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Mike http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2005/11/03/stx-installer-2/#comment-9 Mike Fri, 04 Nov 2005 09:02:40 +0000 http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2005/11/03/stx-installer-2/#comment-9 Well you could consider the graphical steps of the GUI vaguely scriptable as they are, since the whole thing's written in Python; but there's currently no simple way for non-python (& pyfltk) programmers to change the installation steps. But that is something I'll change if I get around to trying to make it a full on general purpose installation solution. Well you could consider the graphical steps of the GUI vaguely scriptable as they are, since the whole thing’s written in Python; but there’s currently no simple way for non-python (& pyfltk) programmers to change the installation steps. But that is something I’ll change if I get around to trying to make it a full on general purpose installation solution.

]]> By: D http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2005/11/03/stx-installer-2/#comment-8 D Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:24:33 +0000 http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2005/11/03/stx-installer-2/#comment-8 > There isn’t a lot that needs scripting within the actual GUI itself > (outside of the installation instructions, provided by the system > mentioned above) as things stand. I was more refering to the GUI stages before the installer kicks in to do the gruntwork, the questions it asks, etc. if those scriptable. eg: in the future if you need to ask for WPA details or whatnot, how griefsome would that be to squidge in? Although by the sounds of it, you're going to have the entire shebang scriptable (so you can use installer for other things) so that covers that point anywho. -Dx > There isn’t a lot that needs scripting within the actual GUI itself
> (outside of the installation instructions, provided by the system
> mentioned above) as things stand.

I was more refering to the GUI stages before the installer kicks in to do the gruntwork, the questions it asks, etc. if those scriptable. eg: in the future if you need to ask for WPA details or whatnot, how griefsome would that be to squidge in? Although by the sounds of it, you’re going to have the entire shebang scriptable (so you can use installer for other things) so that covers that point anywho.

-Dx

]]> By: Mike http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2005/11/03/stx-installer-2/#comment-7 Mike Thu, 03 Nov 2005 23:08:57 +0000 http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2005/11/03/stx-installer-2/#comment-7 Yeah, the gui provides various variables such as $SWAP; but if the GUI isn't being used then the normal bash script before the ####START INSTALL#### section can provide it (as shown in the example). There isn't a lot that needs scripting within the actual GUI itself (outside of the installation instructions, provided by the system mentioned above) as things stand. The visual elements of the installer can be changed with <a href="http://www.fltk.org/documentation.php/doc-1.1/fluid.html#FLUID" rel="nofollow">fluid</a>. I might at some stage take the backend from this and create a nice general purpose installer system for normal programs (at the moment it's only purpose is installation of GNU/Linux LiveCD distributions). A few pictures of the installer can be seen in this post: <a href="http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2005/09/23/stx-installer/">http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2005/09/23/stx-installer/</a> Yeah, the gui provides various variables such as $SWAP; but if the GUI isn’t being used then the normal bash script before the ####START INSTALL#### section can provide it (as shown in the example). There isn’t a lot that needs scripting within the actual GUI itself (outside of the installation instructions, provided by the system mentioned above) as things stand. The visual elements of the installer can be changed with fluid. I might at some stage take the backend from this and create a nice general purpose installer system for normal programs (at the moment it’s only purpose is installation of GNU/Linux LiveCD distributions).

A few pictures of the installer can be seen in this post: http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2005/09/23/stx-installer/

]]> By: D http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2005/11/03/stx-installer-2/#comment-6 D Thu, 03 Nov 2005 22:33:25 +0000 http://blog.mikeasoft.com/2005/11/03/stx-installer-2/#comment-6 I presume that variables like $SWAP are populated by the installer GUI which too is scriptable in some way? :) -Dx I presume that variables like $SWAP are populated by the installer GUI which too is scriptable in some way? :)

-Dx

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