Re: User interaction API: outputMessage

"Isak Savo" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.autopackage.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2008/2/5, Francesco Montorsi <[email protected]>:

> BTW I see that in general all the user interaction part is quite
> limited... what if I'd need to show to present a question to the user?
> Or a multiple-choice?

It's a design decision. We wanted to make the installation without
user interaction, and for almost all cases, the questions the
installer wishes to ask the user are irrelevant and can be skipped.

If your package installs a desktop item, autopackage will inform the
user about this at the end.

Think about what you want to ask the user, and then consider if that
question can either be
a) asked by the actual program later
or
b) answered automatically by the program/installer

-Isak

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