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Re: setup.exe window captions
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at syncretize dot net>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>,"Harry Johnston" <harry at scms dot waikato dot ac dot nz>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:00:56 +1000
- Subject: Re: setup.exe window captions
- References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020719132855.00a61500@127.0.0.1>
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From: "Harry Johnston" <harry@scms.waikato.ac.nz>
To: <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 12:04 PM
Subject: setup.exe window captions
> Hi,
>
> It is conventional for setup wizards to have a different caption on
each
> page of the property sheet, but the cygwin setup program uses the same
> caption (Cygwin Setup) on each page.
>
> This is very easy to change (I've already built a corrected version)
so I'm
> wondering if this was a deliberate design decision for some reason.
If it
> *isn't* deliberate, how would I best go about submitting the
appropriate
> changes? (Only res.rc is affected.)
Send a patch to cygwin-apps. (Use diff -up please).
> The reason I wanted to change this is that I use a scripting engine to
> install software on many machines at once, and the engine relies on
looking
> at window captions to tell what keystrokes to send. A cleaner
alternative
> would be an unattended installation mode - is anybody working on this
at
> the moment, or should I have a go?
Unattended mode could certainly use some help. Just dive in and add
command line parameters where needed.
Rob