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How to suppress unnecessary InstallShield InstallScript MSI dialogs?

I have an InstallShield 2009 'InstallScript MSI' project that shows 2 dialogs that are not needed in my installation:

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How do I disable these 2 dialog boxes? In the User Interface section, the All Dialogs tree displays these dialogs, but they are all greyed out and cannot be disabled or changed.

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For InstallScript MSI (and also InstallScript) installations, you determine which dialogs are shown by going to the InstallScript view. Insert the OnFirstUIBefore event by going to the dropdown at the top. Then define the gotos template and which dialogs are shown, and reinstall it to skip those dialogs. Typically, functions displaying dialogs are named with a prefix Sd

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Namely - you cannot delete the dialog. But you can hide it.

To do this, in the visibility parameters of the entire unwanted dialog box, you need to change it from "visible" to "hidden".



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