AutoInstall Program (w/ Silent cab install)

[rgv_warrior]

Originally Posted by stroths

I don't know of a place with a write-up, but here is a site where you can download registry editors that work PPCs.

http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/men...tryEditors.asp

I use WinCE Cab Manager, but its about $100 to buy. You should be able to do it with a free tool called cabwiz, but its not as easy. Here are a couple of other useful links I found on google about it.

http://www.modaco.com/content/Smartp...ange-registry/

http://www.gpcarreon.com/?p=93

Thanks Stroths.

RW

[[sammich]]

Originally Posted by plenTpak

Yes, it basically just runs everything in the directory, as if you went into the directory and clicked on it all yourself.

I think you quoted the wrong person... That didn't refer to my question

[InvincibleLiving]

Originally Posted by stroths

I don't know of a place with a write-up, but here is a site where you can download registry editors that work PPCs.

http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/men...tryEditors.asp

I use WinCE Cab Manager, but its about $100 to buy. You should be able to do it with a free tool called cabwiz, but its not as easy. Here are a couple of other useful links I found on google about it.

http://www.modaco.com/content/Smartp...ange-registry/

http://www.gpcarreon.com/?p=93

Stroths, are your links above smartphone specific? or will these instructions also work with wm6 & 6.1 devices to create cab files?

[paravis]

Originally Posted by rgv_warrior

stroths,

I've never built a reg file before. Can you point me to where I can learn how?

thanks,

rw

Oh really? Didn't know that either. Thanks!

[buckyswider]

Quite a N00b question, I'm sure......

I'm looking to implement this to ease the pain of ROM updates (as I'm sure most of us are). Have just started to explore the windoze registry...

To apply our own customizations, can we just export the applicable parts of the registry into a .reg file, then put these into autoinstall after the .cab install of the particular app??

For way of an example, let's take slingbox. The registry contains the 'finder' id of my slingbox, as well as passwords and things like that- pain in the butt to re-key it after upgrades. Could I export this segment from the registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Sling Media\SlingPlayer]

and just use autoinstall on this .reg file to re-populate my settings?? Or is that just asking for trouble??

That's just one example....of course there's many many many others....

Thanks!

[stroths]

Originally Posted by nautica2450

Stroths, are your links above smartphone specific? or will these instructions also work with wm6 & 6.1 devices to create cab files?

The cabwiz download comes with 2 files (1 for smartphone and 1 for ppc) I believe. The directions should be pretty similar, but they are the best I could find in my brief search.

[InvincibleLiving]

Originally Posted by stroths

The cabwiz download comes with 2 files (1 for smartphone and 1 for ppc) I believe. The directions should be pretty similar, but they are the best I could find in my brief search.

great thanks, i'll continue to look into it... just making sure.

in any event i think i'll still download the wm6 SDK and look thru it as well just for curiosity sake...

[plenTpak]

Updated with AutoInstall3: Fixed some .reg import issues: Escaped strings now import properly; semi-working workaround for binary values >1k.

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Originally Posted by saumaun

I think you quoted the wrong person... That didn't refer to my question

Hi, sorry, what I meant was that: just like when you manually click on a cab and can edit setup options afterwards, AutoInstall lets you do the same thing.

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Originally Posted by buckyswider

Quite a N00b question, I'm sure......

I'm looking to implement this to ease the pain of ROM updates (as I'm sure most of us are). Have just started to explore the windoze registry...

To apply our own customizations, can we just export the applicable parts of the registry into a .reg file, then put these into autoinstall after the .cab install of the particular app??

For way of an example, let's take slingbox. The registry contains the 'finder' id of my slingbox, as well as passwords and things like that- pain in the butt to re-key it after upgrades. Could I export this segment from the registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Sling Media\SlingPlayer]

and just use autoinstall on this .reg file to re-populate my settings?? Or is that just asking for trouble??

That's just one example....of course there's many many many others....

Thanks!

I don't use SlingPlayer, so I can't say for sure, but the method you described works for many programs. You'd have to try it out and see if it works in your particular case, though.... or maybe find out from someone else who's tried it with SlingPlayer.

Edit: Make sure you use the new version of AutoInstall (3 or newer) too, because the older version had problems importing certain strings.

[[sammich]]

Originally Posted by plenTpak

Hi, sorry, what I meant was that: just like when you manually click on a cab and can edit setup options afterwards, AutoInstall lets you do the same thing.

Now I understand.

Thanks! I'm pretty pumped to try this out when I get home. Now I'll flash to the new version of no2chem every day!

Great work

[plenTpak]

Originally Posted by plenTpak

At this time, cabs only install from the Installers folder, not from sub-folders... and they install alphabetically (I think =P) so if you just order the cab names alphabetically, that should work....

Sorry, they didn't install alphabetically before (not exactly anyway...) but they do now (as of version 4). You can run scripts from the "Installers" directory too now, in case you want to run a script in between install files.