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Re: Adding additional buttons to installer package?
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Re: Adding additional buttons to installer package?


  • Subject: Re: Adding additional buttons to installer package?
  • From: Luke Bellandi <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:41:56 -0700

Hi Dimi,

On Sep 29, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Dimi Shahbaz wrote:


On Sep 29, 2006, at 1:10 PM, Luke Bellandi wrote:

On Sep 29, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Dimi Shahbaz wrote:

I believe I have seen before the ability to add arbitrary buttons to the installer while it's installing a package. In my case, I want to have a button called "Run pre-installation check" (which launches a separate script) to ensure that the system is capable of running my package.

The difference between having a button and doing the same thing in a preinstall script is that the button is *optionally* pressed. Any ideas?

What exactly are you trying to do here with the optional check?


We have a separate small little app that does things like network availability checks, firewall checks, etc. It runs in the foreground and has a UI. After a user runs it, she can close it and continue the installation if every test passed.

The way for a third party to modify the Installer's user-experience is to create an Installer Plugin. An example is available online here:
http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/InstallerPluginSample/


You could create a plugin that either performs these checks, or one that optionally launches your tool.

- Luke
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