7z SFX Modified Module

version 1.2 RC1 (build 715)

Hi All!

I am excited to finally present the modified 7z SFX module and accompany tools to the English speaking audience. I know some of you already got a hold of the module and used it a little. Now you can take full advantage of all feature thanks to fully translated documentation. I do encourage you to read the docs, because the module development was driven by Russian unattended community. You'll find a lot of features regular users would never think of . I'll list just a few of them here:

- select between interactive, silent and hidden extraction
- control the appearance of dialog prompts and text
- consequently run several files (.exe, .msi, .reg and so on) after the extraction to install configured applications
- replace .bat and .cmd files and eliminate the need in supplementary utilities like "StartX.exe", "msistub.exe" and so on
- create shortcuts for programs with the icons of your choice

There's a lot, and you may want to start with usage examples to see some pics



You may also want to download 7z SFX Tools to see the installer in action.

I truly hope you like the module and start using it in your PC tasks. As you become familiar with its features, please share your experience with your peers through this thread. Although I understand written English relatively well, my writing skills are not that good and I may not be able to answer some questions with the level of detail they require (Honestly, I got a lot of help with this post )

You're welcome to leave any thoughts or suggestions in this thread - I'm subscribed to it. Feel free to conact me by e-mail, but keep in mind that often you can get techincal help through the forum faster

Thank you!
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Latest version look at here (1.2 build 861)
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To do:
GUI (but it's been todo for quite some time )
Feel free to develop GUI, but make sure it can be easily localized to other languages.

This post has been edited by Oleg_Sch: Dec 8 2007, 03:06 AM

dll32
Some questions:
Are you changing icon in module? If "yes" - what program you use for that ?
Are you compress module by UPX or other programs?
I.e., give me full details...
I will try to repeat the situation and provide a more precise answer.

I'm not changing the icon of the module, or using any kind of compression except for 7-zip.

I got a question now to:
is it possible to specify two archives when creating the exe?
eg.
copy /b 7zs.sfx + config.txt + archive1.7z + archive2.7z (Installer_Name).exe

No. It's not! Only ONE archive can be active/used in one time. (in your example this is the archive1.7z, i.e. first)
I think it is better to go to the PM about icon's problems.
When we will decide our problems, we will inform all...

Would be nice if someone made a little GUI so no need to manually write text files and use command prompt. Like winrar SFX window

To heffalump:

Sorry, not enough time to do this

GUI for write config file (interface Russian only)
Creation of a config file Online service (interface Russian only)
Creation 7z SFX archives in Total Commander (interface Russian and English, Help - Russian only)

All on the basis of modified module Oleg_Sch

This post has been edited by gora: Oct 15 2008, 01:04 PM

Hi there

There is an other Guy (Georg Wittberger) who mod the SFX modules, with a really "eye-candy" user interface.

So, if both can combine together, it would be perfect!
Is this possible?

Regards.

Georg Wittberger Homepage

 Professional_GUI.jpg ( 36.22K ) Number of downloads: 8

I made some experiments and found that it is not a bug of the module.
I found a description of such problems for Inno Setup. Read this
I do not know how to solve this problem

Thanks for the clarification and thanks for trying, now I at least know what's causing it.

By the way...
I just got an idea, i might just put the installer within another installer, that extract the installer silently and then executes it.

// dLL32

Hy,

Your module is under GNU LGPL but i don't find the sources code on the douwload page. Can you give me the link please ?

THANKS

Updates of the site and files (and sources) will be available in first or second week of January.
Sorry, but now i'm too busy

No Add Password Support ??

Hi,

To add a language file to some apps, i'm using the following AutoIt script to check the "HKCU\Control Panel\International\sLanguage" registry value, if it equal to "FRA" the i copy/run my language file.The size of that compiled autoit script file is about 200K.

To downsize the final archive file, i have to translate the above .au3 file to a .cmd file.
Anyone can help writing that .cmd script?

Regards
coucou

Try:

Just an additional note to the above, there is no real need to either use a for loop or set a variable which isn't needed.All the above is one line!

Also if you were to use program to hide the console window then you could shorten it a little too.All the above is one line again!

Excellent point about there being no need to set a variable! I confess I haven't written any AutoIT scripts and was just attempting a pretty literal translation of the original into a batch file. I didn't write the FOR loop so nicely, either. It can easily be done with a single iteration, and everything can go on one line with unwanted output suppressed too by using:
Yzöwl's example of piping through FIND is still slightly shorter than this, though. Where using FOR rather than FIND might be shorter and more straightforward is if you were testing for more than one condition. For a three-language example:It's probably good to know both techniques; still, Yzöwl's method is shortest for the specific need expressed by coucou!

So exactly what does this application do?

It would be nice to have a little snippet of info in the OPs post. Maybe a screenshot too if appropriate.

All the info you need is presented on the website through links provided in the opening post of this topic. Unfortunately the site is down for a while so you'd have to wait for it to come back up again for that info.

If you've already got the module it has a reasonably good help file with it giving switches, options and usage examples etc.

Many Many Many TNX jpeachman and Yzöwl

Happy New 2008
coucou

Hi, I'm AlbatroS :-)

First of all, thanx to Oleg_Sch and all contributors here. It's great what we can do with those modified SFXs!


Hm, it seems AVs don't like its generated exe's:


This post has been edited by albatros: Jan 7 2008, 06:39 PM