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Re: How to make Installer Plugin work?
by Mike Fischer 19 Mar '06

19 Mar '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Answering my own post... Sorry for the noise. Mike Am 19.03.2006 um 18:18 schrieb Mike Fischer: Hi, Did I do something wrong? Did I misunderstand something here? Any hints? Thanks! Mike -- Mike Fischer Softwareentwicklung, EDV-Beratung Schulung, Vertrieb Web: <http://homepage.mac.com/mike_fischer/index.html> Note: I read this list in digest mode! Send me a private copy for faster responses. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… Nevermind, I figured it out. The InstallerSections.plist must be in Contents/Plugins/ of the .pkg not in Contents/. My Installer Plugin now loads and its UI displays just fine. The NSLogs I put into my code indicate that the overridden methods of the pane class are called just fine. I've been trying to get an Installer Plugin to work, so far without any luck. I used Xcode 2.2.1, created a new project from the "Standard Apple Plug-Ins" -> "Installer Plugin" template, built the project (without any modifications), created a simple installer package using Iceberg 1.1.6, placed the plugin .bundle into Contents/ Plugins/ of the .pkg and copied the InstallerSections.plist from the Xcode project folder into Contents/ of the the .pkg. Then I launched the .pkg using a double-click. I also tried with permutations of the folder name "Plugins", different sort order of the sections in the InstallerSections.plist and adding some elements in the .nib of the plugin and the a few additions to the pane class of the plugin. Same result, i.e. nothing to see at all. I don't see the additional installer phase in the UI of the installer. Nothing in any log files (install.log or console.log) either. I'm trying this on Mac OS X 10.4.5 Build 8H14 on a dual G5 PowerMac. The Apple Installer is version 2.1.0 (86.1). I realize Installer Plugins are not yet documented apart from the header files and that they require Tiger and up. But from the comments I found on this list, I gather that others have been more successful in getting an Installer Plugin to at least show up during the install. High level goal: I would like to find out if an Installer Plugin would be a viable way for entering a license code for a software during the install. I'm aware of the issues this might cause for command-line installs in lab settings and alternatives will probably be provided for them. Unfortunatly the software requires the license code early during the installation because depending on this code different things are installed. (Not my idea, I'm just doing the installer.) My alternatives are: a) calling a separate GUI tool from one of the installer scripts or b) building my own installer. Neither is very appealing although I probably need one of these options for Mac OS X versions before Tiger. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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How to make Installer Plugin work?
by Mike Fischer 19 Mar '06

19 Mar '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi, Did I do something wrong? Did I misunderstand something here? Any hints? Thanks! Mike -- Mike Fischer Softwareentwicklung, EDV-Beratung Schulung, Vertrieb Web: <http://homepage.mac.com/mike_fischer/index.html> Note: I read this list in digest mode! Send me a private copy for faster responses. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… I've been trying to get an Installer Plugin to work, so far without any luck. I used Xcode 2.2.1, created a new project from the "Standard Apple Plug-Ins" -> "Installer Plugin" template, built the project (without any modifications), created a simple installer package using Iceberg 1.1.6, placed the plugin .bundle into Contents/Plugins/ of the .pkg and copied the InstallerSections.plist from the Xcode project folder into Contents/ of the the .pkg. Then I launched the .pkg using a double-click. I also tried with permutations of the folder name "Plugins", different sort order of the sections in the InstallerSections.plist and adding some elements in the .nib of the plugin and the a few additions to the pane class of the plugin. Same result, i.e. nothing to see at all. I don't see the additional installer phase in the UI of the installer. Nothing in any log files (install.log or console.log) either. I'm trying this on Mac OS X 10.4.5 Build 8H14 on a dual G5 PowerMac. The Apple Installer is version 2.1.0 (86.1). I realize Installer Plugins are not yet documented apart from the header files and that they require Tiger and up. But from the comments I found on this list, I gather that others have been more successful in getting an Installer Plugin to at least show up during the install. High level goal: I would like to find out if an Installer Plugin would be a viable way for entering a license code for a software during the install. I'm aware of the issues this might cause for command-line installs in lab settings and alternatives will probably be provided for them. Unfortunatly the software requires the license code early during the installation because depending on this code different things are installed. (Not my idea, I'm just doing the installer.) My alternatives are: a) calling a separate GUI tool from one of the installer scripts or b) building my own installer. Neither is very appealing although I probably need one of these options for Mac OS X versions before Tiger. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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RE: public generic wizard framework?
by Nathan Herring 17 Mar '06

17 Mar '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcZBneqSUFOSBhnQT8CpKFGx6UEWkgIdjYkA Thread-topic: public generic wizard framework? Posted as RADAR 4480981. -nh, noisily -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Ryan [mailto:ryanc@apple.com] Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 8:14 PM To: Nathan Herring Cc: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Subject: Re: public generic wizard framework? Nathan, Sorry for not responding to your previous e-mail on a similar light. There is no common way to do this at this point. To that evail, I don't know of any guideline on making an Installer/ Assistant and I agree that they should all look similar (and it is unfortunate when we people do the interface from scratch and Apple updates the UI and makes everything else look out of place). Installer plugins shouldn't be used in other apps, as they will change drastically from release to release as bugs are fixed and features are added. I would file a bug and make some noise and maybe we could publish a public "assistant" framework which could serve this purpose. Chris > The Tiger installer allows for custom installer plugins, that, if > they conform to the API, allow themselves to be loaded into a view > and interact with the user. The InstallerSections.plist controls > the order of those sections. Apple's built-in sections are in the > Installer.app's PlugIns directory. > > Similarly, from a casual inspection of /System/Library/CoreServices/ > Setup Assistant.app and some of the other Setup Assistants in that > folder, that they too have a series of bundles representing views, > though they live in the Resources section of those applications. > > Is there some commonly usable generic wizard framework where any > app can present a list of view bundles and have it operate like the > Installer section/panes or Setup Assistants? One that would get > updated with appropriate UI changes if the Installer/Setup > Assistants get updated in a major release? > > Or, to turn this on its head, can an application host the > Installer.app plugins in itself (usefully)? > > -nh > > ---- > Nathan Herring > MacBU SDE/Development > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/ryanc%40apple.com > > This email sent to ryanc(a)apple.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: package maker installer interface editor cannot be used without specifying license?
by Christopher Ryan 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

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RE: package maker installer interface editor cannot be used without specifying license?
by George Liu 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

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RE: package maker installer interface editor cannot be used without specifying license?
by George Liu 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

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Re: package maker installer interface editor cannot be used without specifying license?
by Christopher Ryan 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

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package maker installer interface editor cannot be used without specifying license?
by George Liu 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

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Re: installation package not working for 10.1 and 10.2
by Luke Bellandi 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

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Re: Package installation
by Joshua Levitsky 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~rpointon/osx/fseventer.html -Josh On Mar 9, 2006, at 6:03 PM, Kathy Gach wrote: Thank you very much Kathy Gach _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.… You want to figure out where the serial number is stored and include the serial number file in your package. Sometimes this will be in / Library/Preferences/ and other times it might be in each user's Library/Preference. In the case of the later you would have to walk through all the user accounts with a postflight script that would put the serial number in each home directory. If you are on Tiger then an easy way to see where the serial number would be written would be fseventer. It can watch filesystem changes as they happen. So you can launch the app and register it and watch what files are changing. Then sift through what has changed to find the file. Then look at the file in TextEdit to see what is in it. With the new binary plists in tiger if the file is a ".plist" file then view it with the Plist Editor that is in /Applications/Developer/ Applications/ if you have Xcode installed. I'm using a program called Iceberg v1.1.6 to make installation packages. I make my package just fine, and the package installs just fine. The problem is when I launch the application that the package installed It asks for a serial number. Is there a way I can build a package Where when I install it, the serial number is integrated into the package? I'm very new at making packages, so any help would be greatly appreciated. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/jlevitsk% 40joshie.com This email sent to jlevitsk(a)joshie.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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