Re: PackageMaker and custom folder icons
Re: PackageMaker and custom folder icons
- Subject: Re: PackageMaker and custom folder icons
- From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:23:31 -0600
On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 01:26 PM, Markus Hitter wrote:
Am Dienstag den, 12. Februar 2002, um 19:15, schrieb Charles Srstka:
I know about this one because I had to figure out how to do this the
other way for Pacifist.
You can store the resource fork, all your metadata, etc. What you need
to do is to encode your file in AppleDouble format. You get two
files. One is the data file. Leave it with the original file's name.
The other one is the one containing all the HFS-specific stuff. Give
it the original file's name with a '._' appended to the beginning of
its name. So if the original file is called 'somefile', you end up
with two files, one named 'somefile' which is the data fork, and the
other one named '._somefile' which contains the HFS stuff. Put them in
the same directory, and the installer aught to join them when you put
them together.
While this sounds very interesting, an easy way to get the file encoded
would be to create a UFS formatted disk image and to use the Finder to
copy the files there before pax'ing the archive. This would preserve
the Finder info for all other files as well unless you delete the
84-byte sized ._files.
Very good. I completely forgot about that. Yes, you can copy something
to a UFS disk, and it will encode it in precisely the format you need to
have in your package. Just make sure to package both the file and the
._file, and you'll be good to go.
Charles
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