[Interest] Qt Installer Framework 2.0.0 [ OS X ] - How to launch my.app on finish?

[Koehne Kai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eddie Sutton [mailto:edsutton at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2015 3:45 PM
> To: Koehne Kai
> Cc: Kalinowski Maurice; Qt Project
> Subject: Re: [Interest] Qt Installer Framework 2.0.0 [ OS X ] - How to launch
> my.app on finish?
> 
> Kai,
> 
> The open openreadme example was what got me started down this path.
> 
> 1 - QDesktopServices can not launch an app.
> 2 - I understand I must add an “Execute” operation in the createOperations()
> function.
> 3 - Can execution of an operation be deferred until installationFinished?

No, but you can also directly call installer.execute() or installer.executeDetached():


https://doc.qt.io/qtinstallerframework/scripting-installer.html#execute-method


> Component.prototype.createOperations = function() {
>     component.createOperations();
>     /* \todo Can execution of this operation be deferred until
> installationFinished()? */
>     component.addOperation("Execute", "open", "-a",
> "@TargetDir@/TSR.app"); }
> 
> 
> Just in case, I tried moving the addOperation() to installationFinished().
> However it does not execute and has no effect.

Right, that's too late to queue an operation.


Regards

Kai