Re: custom backgrounds in only *some* dialogs?
Re: custom backgrounds in only *some* dialogs?
- Subject: Re: custom backgrounds in only *some* dialogs?
- From: Iceberg-Dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 00:26:35 +0200
On Aug 7, 2009, at 6:22 PM, Howard Moon wrote:
Hi all,
is there any way to have our custom background only show up for
*some* dialogs? It's annoying to have an image behind the
scrolling text of the license, for example (even though we've made
it so it's a ghost-like image of our logo). And the tiny amount of
space at the bottom left isn't really suitable for our logo.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of putting a small logo in the lower
left corner. It almost always looks better to put a big translucent
one (alpha <= 0.3) right aligned.
If you want to display a nice clean logo of your company or
application, you can use the Welcome text for that or set it as the
background picture of the disk image if you use one for distribution.
I've messed around a little bit with an installer plugin, but have
not yet found any documentation describing how I might create a
dialog and insert it in the install sequence. (The default
installer plugin, when added to my installer, simply shows a view
on top of one of the existing dialogs in the sequence, not a
separate window.)
Assuming that by dialog, you mean pane. Yes, that was an Installer
Plugin is for. To display an additional step with one or more panes.
The pane is where your UI should go if you want to ensure a smooth
experience for the end user. Separate windows would be used mostly
for alerts or notifications related to panes.
On a more general note, is the apparent inability to add or
customize dialogs in the installers a function of the Apple
installer app, or just the tools (e.g., PackageMaker or Iceberg)?
Installer.app format limitation.
Is there anyone out there who's making package installers and does
*any* customization?
Is there any documentation on how to go about it?
Writing Installer Plugins requires Cocoa development. You can find
additional information here:
http://s.sudre.free.fr/Stuff/Installer/Installer_Plugins/index.html
Hope it can help.
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