Hi Chris, Tom,
> By simply adding one line to the bootstrap.properties in your GF V3 .jar
> file (see below), we were able to trigger installation of the Update Tool
> GUI and notifier via the bootstrap. Very nice.
Sounds good indeed :-)
Another thing I would like to improve (this is more general to IzPack)
is the case of Vista UAC. Normal Java applications cannot easily be
run with admin privileges, and many things should fail with this
installer under Vista (e.g., writing to "program files" or writing
into the registry). The classic trick is to wrap the installer within
a win32 executable that has 'installer' or 'setup' in the name.
Some people have posted JScripts on the web that can launch a process
*and* ask privileges elevation for them. This is less trivial as it
seems, as WinXP had a 'runas' command, but it doesn't work on Vista
nor it has a equivalent. I'll have a look if we can have a hack to
bootstrap such a script to relaunch the installer with higher
privileges. That would allow Jar installers to work right without
having to actually be logged as an admin or having to wrap the
installer :-)
Cheers
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