April 2007 - Installer-dev - lists.apple.com

Set Document Icon from the Command Line
by Ken Mankoff 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Dkim-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=POLSDhe3sUv93wLg8myXJWKLkMSbxLBHDhxlJUPP367/xIFq6ROnpEibNuupYqt68VxRKd95l/YysRk7eR5MYIM3YUvHEE9qY2foBW1e+BWhY81ApMdFrU/2qCqkOuW3gqJcv5cqdOz5WcF3IQpNt8o2n4aT87udJeNPNS3BOys= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=jtDJVi7JKyUalthqAB55yB5587wqGvjYw9yWHnucLpV9Dwcl8r+pRNiXpPnS88U/WK19SytNxj2j8Bx+R3qevvmMWib+XmwYF3nhT557YorSnz+iFFvfIgcnD3zJ1AwtEpSnKp08td39QYC3jRgqd08AAmtfexIh6fuOSTFltN4= _______________________________________________ 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: Changing text of button names in the installer
by Luke Bellandi 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi Mike, - Luke On Apr 10, 2007, at 9:29 PM, Mike wrote: Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ 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/luke%40apple.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.… There's currently no prescribed way to do that, and we advise against it as a rule. However, given access to the Installer's window with your plugin, you can crawl the window's view hierarchy for buttons and make changes that way. Note that the view hierarchy is subject to change, possibly drastically, from release to release, so if you did implement a hack like that, it's possible that it would break in the future. I'd suggest filing an enhancement request at http://bugreporter.apple.com . Is there a way to change the text of the next and previous buttons in the Apple installer? I need to change the text of one of the buttons when I enter a pane but there doesn't seem to be any API for doing this in the Installer Plugins Framework. I would prefer to do it in the "willEnter" method but there doesn't seem to be any public access to the buttons themselves. This email sent to luke(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Changing text of button names in the installer
by Mike 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Macintosh/20070221) Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ 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.… Is there a way to change the text of the next and previous buttons in the Apple installer? I need to change the text of one of the buttons when I enter a pane but there doesn't seem to be any API for doing this in the Installer Plugins Framework. I would prefer to do it in the "willEnter" method but there doesn't seem to be any public access to the buttons themselves. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: applescript and automount?
by david savage 04 Apr '07

04 Apr '07

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applescript and automount?
by don montalvo 04 Apr '07

04 Apr '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0pre (Macintosh/20070331) i have to reverse engineer a half-a$$ed package installer. cutting to the chase, there are two things the installer does that i'd like to have some feedback on... 1. applescript to place known items: /Users/Shared/Stuff/* into ~/Library/Preferences/. ...how do you define "current logged in user" in packagemaker? i thought apple designed things so you CAN'T install into /Users? 2. apparently the person also created an /automount entry (noticed when i used loggen to snapshoot the install). how would one add an /automount command in a package installer? thanks, don -- don montalvo, nyc 917-559-5713 donmontalvo(a)mac.com http://donmontalvo.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "live is like riding a bicycle. to keep your balance you must keep moving" -albert einstein _______________________________________________ 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 smime.p7s

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Re: Launching a ViseX installer from a PackageMaker installer
by Scott Russell 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

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Re: Launching a ViseX installer from a PackageMaker installer
by Cormac Daly 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

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Re: Launching a ViseX installer from a PackageMaker installer
by Luke Bellandi 02 Apr '07

02 Apr '07

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hi Cormac, Best, Luke On Mar 31, 2007, at 8:20 AM, Cormac Daly wrote: Hi All, Hope all this is clear, and any suggestions would be appreciated, Thanks, Cormac _______________________________________________ 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/luke%40apple.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.… Why do you need to use 2 different packaging solutions in tandem? Is there a way that you could alter the process to just use Apple's Installer? I'd be interested to know the specifics of the problem you're trying to solve. My product will incorporate a 3rd party plug-in - this will have its own ViseX installer. My product uses a PackageMaker solution and I wish to launch the ViseX installer from mine. I can sucessfully do this using a preflight or preinstall shell script. The ViseX installer will require the user to specify an installation directory (whose location will be written to a plist file) at install-time and the installer for my application will need to read this at a later point to ensure that components of its installation are put in the same location as the plug-in. The ViseX installer must therefore finish running before my installer proceeds to install its own files. However, when the ViseX installer is called the PackageMaker installer is still visible and active, albeit not in focus. It is therefore possible for the user to continue using the PackageMaker installer before the ViseX installer has finished, in which case the installation process will not run correctly. Its possible to put explanatory text in PackageMaker's readme/ welcome window but this not ideal. I was wondering if its possible to somehow disable the PackageMaker installer until the ViseX installer has sucessfully finished running? This issue may concern shell scripting more than it does installers in general but I thought this might be a good place to ask. This email sent to luke(a)apple.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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