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It's the graphical UI that I want. Having someone with little i experience have to start a 5250 session and run a bunch of commands (or even to figure out what a command line is) is getting harder and harder to sell. Basically I want the user to click a link on my web site, download the installer, double click it to start it (so far no typing....) and then be prompted for a valid i user ID and password and then just watch the pretty screen with the progress bar moving until it's done with a "Success!" splash screen. That is what they expect for a Windows installer and they really shouldn't get anything different for the i.

I develop web apps so a command line is an anathema to my target customers. Doing it all under the covers while they are "entertained" by a progress UI is what I am looking for.

Pete


Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen wrote:
Pete Helgren skrev:
Aaron,

If you are tweaking tn5250j, I hope you are contributing the changes back (I haven't seen you on the mailing list...)

I just spent the day with IzPack, building a new installer jar for the latest tn5250j. I think I'll play with IzPack a little more and see if I can use it to install programs to the i. Something I have needed is a desktop installer for i programs....
Problem with most installers is that they insist on somewhere to display splash screens, and Ok-buttons and stuff. No go through a qsh session :(

What do you want to accomplish?


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