Re: Component with helper application install
Re: Component with helper application install
- Subject: Re: Component with helper application install
- From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 00:38:37 +0200
On Jul 8, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Philip Aker wrote:
Greetings from Vancouver,
Background info:
Our QuickTime component is currently distributed with a helper
background application embedded in the component's Resources
folder. The purpose of the app is to provide info to the system
about a file type that QuickTime Player doesn't know about, an icon
for the file type, and forward double-clicks on our files to QTP.
When we claim the file type this way we get QuickLook previews in
Leopard for free. The lowest system supported is 10.4.
Our problem is on Leopard. We want to work around the fact that
when an application is first run, the user gets a dialog
(quarantine?) asking for confirmation that running the app is ok.
That's because the QL Preview things don't work as expected unless
the application has already been run. That is, the user has to
restart from the installer, launch the app by double-clicking one
of our files, suffer through "first run", and then restart again.
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So my question is can we launch the app from our installer package
when it is run so as to dispense with the "first run" dialog PITA
during the installation process?
I don't remember where I've read that and don't remember the solution
but it was something related to extended attributes that you had to
modify after installation is completed.
BTW, I'm using Xcode 3.0/ 10.5.3. I haven't used PackageMaker.app
since about 10.3. I like the new interface design but the app seems
to have a few problems retaining my settings and crashed a few
times. Are there any known issues you can clue me in on?
- Editing in raw mode can crash the application.
- Bundle Search gets enabled by default.
- Metapackage can not be created with the command line tool.
- External scripts can't be used.
- Requirements settings are not correctly built in multiple cases.
- Some options such as overwrite permissions are not supported.
- You can't easily reorder packages.
etc.
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