Re: Package Maker background color
Re: Package Maker background color
- Subject: Re: Package Maker background color
- From: Bill Coderre <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:25:58 -0700
The answer is, no, there is nothing that does precisely what you want.
Since a white background is not acceptable, I'd make a larger image,
say, twice as tall and 20% wider than the default window size, and
fill the extra space with a solid color or simple pattern.
Save it as a compressed tiff, and the file size "bloat" will be rather
small. Heck, try it twice as tall and twice as wide.
Then use "none" for scaling.
On Aug 10, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Howard Moon wrote:
but what does that tell me? I already know how to insert a
background image into my installer package. That's working fine.
The problem is that if the installer window changes size (as it does
sometimes), then the background has to either stretch (which can
look bad) or stay pinned to some side (which exposes the Installer's
default window color). The question is, how to resolve this?
Since there does not seem to be an attribute that tells the
installer to use a specific default background *color* (so that any
area exposed by the window expanding in size is the same color as
the custom background's background color), is there a color choice
that I can use as the background color of my custom background
image, such that if the window grows and exposes "unpainted" areas,
it will blend in with my background seamlessly? (And will this
color be the same across OS versions 10.4,10.5 and 10.6 (etc.)?)
Thanks,
-Howard
On Aug 10, 2009, at 2:56 PM, Bill Coderre wrote:
So there's two cases: distribution-based installers, and the older
format.
In the distribution scripts, there's a tag in the xml called
"background" which is documented in this document: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Reference/DistributionDefinitionRef/000-Introduction/Introduction.html
The older format, there are flags in the Info.plist, which I am not
sure where they are documented. Stephane has probably written them
up.
IFPkgFlagBackgroundAlignment
IFPkgFlagBackgroundScaling
On Aug 10, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Howard Moon wrote:
So does that mean the answer is "no"?
Those measurements only apply for the default size of the pane.
They don't help if the pane changes size.
Under the new OS, if the user is able to change volumes, then the
screen that appears increases in vertical size (instead of using a
sideways-scrolling window for the list of volumes). This makes
the background image the wrong size. As the OP stated, this makes
a region appear that's not the same as our background. And making
it stretch to fit causes our logo to stretch vertically, which is
not acceptable.
Is this an Installer.app bug in the new OS?
Or, is there a specific color we should use as our background color?
-Howard
On Aug 7, 2009, at 7:13 AM, Rusty Myers wrote:
This site has a good picture with the measurements
http://s.sudre.free.fr/Stuff/PackageMaker_Howto.html
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Tim
Murison<email@hidden> wrote:
Hi,
I am setting a background image to my installer packages.
Sometimes the
installer resizes its windows and when this happens, I can see the
background color which is not the same as my image.
Is it possible to set background color in Package Maker, if not,
what size
do I need to make my image to ensure that it will always cover
the entire
background of the installer window (I do not want to it stretch
out of
proportion).
-Tim
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