Re: Getting path to pkg
Re: Getting path to pkg
- Subject: Re: Getting path to pkg
- From: Lora Lozano via Installer-dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 17:04:57 -0400
Thanks for your input, Vachik. Unfortunately, this didn’t work for me, even on
Mojave. It returned null for the PACKAGE_PATH, and the installer hung.
Thanks,
Lora
> On Aug 3, 2019, at 5:18 PM, Vachik Hovhannisyan <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> no need to go through all of that in order to get the package path
>
> just get PACKAGE_PATH environment variable value using getenv("PACKAGE_PATH")
> or similar function call
>
> On Thursday, August 1, 2019, 11:41:47 AM PDT, Lora Lozano via Installer-dev
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> In my plugin code, I’m leveraging the code in
> https://lists.apple.com/archives/Installer-dev/2008/Nov/msg00017.html
> <https://lists.apple.com/archives/Installer-dev/2008/Nov/msg00017.html> to
> get the path to my installer pkg. This has been working for me for the past
> few years on all the Mac OSes that have been released, but it’s not working
> for me on Catalina. I tried this on the latest Catalina beta release
> (currently beta 5), but the NSWindow window, and thus its delegate, turns out
> to be null, which then causes my installer to crash with [NSURL
> initFileURLWithPath:]: nil string parameter when my code calls
> initFileURLWithPath.
>
> As a test, I copied Apple's Installer application
> (/System/Library/CoreServices/Installer.app) from my Mojave machine to my
> Catalina machine and launched my installer on Catalina using that, and the
> crash doesn't happen. The NSWindow and its delegate are not null.
>
> Was there a change to the Catalina Installer.app that requires me to update
> my code?
>
> Here’s the code from
> https://lists.apple.com/archives/Installer-dev/2008/Nov/msg00017.html
> <https://lists.apple.com/archives/Installer-dev/2008/Nov/msg00017.html> that
> my code is based off of:
> #import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
> #import <InstallerPlugins/InstallerPlugins.h>
>
> @interface HowToMakeAnAppleEngineerScream : InstallerPane
> {
> }
>
> @end
>
> #import "HowToMakeAnAppleEngineerScream.h"
>
> @interface PageController : NSObject
> {
> }
>
> - (id)distribution;
>
> @end
>
> @interface IFDocument : NSObject
> {
> }
>
> - (id)path;
>
> @end
>
>
> @implementation HowToMakeAnAppleEngineerScream
>
> - (NSString *)title
> {
> return [[NSBundle bundleForClass:[self class]]
> localizedStringForKey:@"PaneTitle" value:nil table:nil];
> }
>
> - (void) didEnterPane:(InstallerSectionDirection) inDirection
> {
> NSWindow * tWindow;
> PageController * tPageController;
>
> tWindow=[NSApp keyWindow]; // This should be improved IMHO
>
> tPageController=(PageController *) [tWindow delegate];
>
> if (tPageController!=nil)
> {
> NSLog(@"This is the package path: %@",[[tPageController distribution] path]);
> }
> }
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
> -Lora
>
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