[Solved] Installing OpenOffice without wizard

[brunosiqueira]

In a application we are developing in the company I work we extended OpenOffice. But it is going to be used by users who are not administrators of the computer they'll be working on.
When the part of the system that uses OpenOffice is accessed for the first time, the system shows a wizard screen for installing the OpenOffice in the computer for those type of users (if I do it with an administrator user the wizard screen is not shown).
I was wondering If there's any way for the Open Office to be intalled without showing the wizard screen when installing (so it's transparent to the user) and without registering it on the Windows's register.
Thanks
Bruno Siqueira

[Hagar Delest]

Does it help: [Solved] Welcome to Open Office screen?

Thanks to add '[Solved]' in your first post title (edit button) if your issue has been fixed.

[brunosiqueira]

Does it help: [Solved] Welcome to Open Office screen?

Thanks to add '[Solved]' in your first post title (edit button) if your issue has been fixed.

Actually, it helps in part.
I start the openOffice from another application so I can use the line:
System.setProperty("com.sun.star.officebean.Options","-nofirststartwizard");
And it works fine. The problem is that I already have another property to be used in com.sun.star.officebean.Options that is -norestore. And I can't set both of then. Is there another property in openOffice were I coud set one of those or both?
Thanks

[Hagar Delest]

I'm not fond of arguments in command lines. I think that the most reliable way is to tweak the new OOo user profile (see second part of the post). Note that with the latter method, both the norestore and no registration screen can be set together by modifying the configuration file.

[brunosiqueira]

I'm not fond of arguments in command lines. I think that the most reliable way is to tweak the new OOo user profile (see second part of the post). Note that with the latter method, both the norestore and no registration screen can be set together by modifying the configuration file.

Thanks. We are gonna do the script.

[Tommy]

why don't u use the no-install version of OOo.
ucan find it here: http://www.winpenpack.com/main/news.php

[brunosiqueira]

I've solved my problem with a solution that, might not be the best one, but it works perfectly.
I've copied the LocalOfficeConnection class from the api (and two or three others that were necessary) to my project and modified the startupService() method.

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		public void startupService()
			throws java.io.IOException
		{
            int nSizeCmdArray = 7;
           // create call with arguments
			String[] cmdArray = new String[nSizeCmdArray];
			cmdArray[0] = (new File(getProgramPath(), OFFICE_APP_NAME)).getPath();
			cmdArray[1] = "-nologo";
			cmdArray[2] = "-nodefault";
			if ( mConnType.equals( "pipe" ) )
				cmdArray[3] = "-accept=pipe,name=" + getIdentifier() + ";" +
						  mProtocol + ";" + mInitialObject;
			else if ( mConnType.equals( "socket" ) )
				cmdArray[3] = "-accept=socket,port=" + mPort + ";urp";
			else
				throw new java.io.IOException( "not connection specified" );
            
            cmdArray[4] = "-nofirststartwizard";
            cmdArray[5] = "-norestore";
            cmdArray[6] = "-nolockcheck";

			// start process
			mProcess = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmdArray);
			if ( mProcess == null )
				throw new RuntimeException( "cannot start soffice: " + cmdArray );
            new StreamProcessor(mProcess.getInputStream(), System.out);
            new StreamProcessor(mProcess.getErrorStream(), System.err);
		}

I added

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            cmdArray[4] = "-nofirststartwizard";
            cmdArray[5] = "-norestore";

Which now makes open office in my app open for the first time with no wizard and no recovery screen.