PackageMaker & Custom Folder Icons
PackageMaker & Custom Folder Icons
- Subject: PackageMaker & Custom Folder Icons
- From: Paul Cook <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:38:13 -0500
Does anyone know how to get Apple's PackageMaker to handle custom
folder icons?
I'm not really a developer. But in order to install software via
Apple Remote Desktop or as part of OS-X Servers NetInstall, it has to
be in an Apple style package. So we are repackaging some software
with PackageMaker. And this seems to be the most appropriate list for
PackageMaker questions.
Generally, things are working well, except that, when we run the
installers, folders have lost their custom icons. Otherwise, if there
are other problems, we haven't yet noticed them.
One example is, we were trying to repackage Office 2004 into a
package so that it could be installed by Leopard Server's NetInstall
feature. Other than being big, there doesn't appear to be anything
too complicated here. The created install works fine, except the
Office 2004 folder icon is missing. Although, if I do an ls -Gal of
the folder created with the installer, there is a .Icon file there.
Since Office is so huge, to make testing quicker, we created a new,
folder with just a simple text file in it and using finder's Get
Info, we copied the icon from the original Office 2004 folder and
pasted it into the test folder. It seems to recreate the problem
fine. The package creates a the folder, as it should, except no
custom icon displays.
I'm using the Leopard Developer Utilities on a Mac running the
current version of Leopard.
Based on some google hits for the problem, I've played with trying to
not filter out the .DS_Store files. We've tried playing with what is
the root for the package. And we put the source for Package Maker
onto a UFS disk image to force any resources into Apple Double
format. (One hit suggested that PackageMaker didn't properly handle
resource forks. Is true?) We have also looked at what Apple
documentation we could find on how to use PackageMaker.
We didn't want to let a little think like an Icon be a blemish on the
quality of the effort, but after about 5 hours on this little icon
problem, we decided to take a break.
Any ideas?
Best Wishes,
Paul
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