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how to add more then two installer plugins in package maker
by sandeep chaudhary 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=g2jtE7ytjy0KDw0tqqFbdbJ3yuhi6CDfZK0MHzP9zmeR27xpPJKRbvloMZm3maEw0EpxYXNvb/RcE/fk+AEMbS5DNDrLiK/wN/h8fWIc7ZGbkrpMEB6xsBDkX6L4p7n5ALg3xqb1yr+Mqdu0XUFzNL/GuJZzvRxY1QgVWqOlGOU=; Hi All, I am a plugin developer. I want to add two UI in my installer.One Ui for license information in which user enter the product key. another Ui is for choosing the different destination location by user at the time of intallation.I have created the two installer plugins for these two UI,But when i add these plugins to my installer , Only one is working at a time. So how can i add two installer plugins in my installer Thanks -Sandeep Did you know? You can CHAT without downloading messenger. Go to http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php/ _______________________________________________ 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: Searching for multiple instances of an application?
by Paul Miller 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) Turned out to be a messed-up retain count. Thanks for the tip! Odd that the view refreshes properly if I build it in willEnterPane. -- Paul Miller | paul(a)fxtech.com | www.fxtech.com | Got Tivo? _______________________________________________ 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.… Stéphane Sudre wrote: On Jul 8, 2008, at 9:29 PM, Paul Miller wrote: Got this all working and building a datasource for a NSTableView which shows the supported applications. The first column uses a Checkbox formatter so it can be toggled on/off. I've implemented a tableView:setObjectValue:forTableColumn:row method but when I click on one of the check-boxes, it is never called, and the app crashes down in objc_msgSend in [NSCell setObjectValue:]. Any idea what I'm missing here? Source code used in your tableView:setObjectValue:forTableColumn:row implementation. It could be an issue with the retain counts of some data. Seeing the source could help. Regarding the willEnterPane and didEnterPane issues, the names of the method can mean that willEnterPane is called before the pane is displayed. And didEnterPane, that the pane is now displayed. Now my only problem is getting the NSTableView to refresh when I change the items. This includes when I click on a checkbox and update the internal state - the view doesn't update. When I build the table in my didEnterPane (actually, selectors invoked from within there from a query), the items do actually end up in the table - if I click on the empty area in the table where I know they will be they show up. So something is preventing the table from refreshing itself completely. I'm happy to post full source to what I have so far if someone would be willing to take a look. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: weird refresh problem with installer plugin
by Paul Miller 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) On Jul 8, 2008, at 4:26 PM, Paul Miller wrote: -- Paul Miller | paul(a)fxtech.com | www.fxtech.com | Got Tivo? -- Paul Miller | paul(a)fxtech.com | www.fxtech.com | Got Tivo? _______________________________________________ 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.… Michael Wu wrote: where do your set up your delegate for your tableView? You may also want to check with Cocoa Dev list for your crash... I set the delegate (and dataSource) to my InstallerPane in Interface Builder. I don't know if this is a problem specific to installer plugins or something else, but parts of my custom installer plugin UI are not refreshing properly. My view contains an NSTableView which will contain the results of a query, and a progress indicator (spinner) which is shown while the query executes. My pane is the dataSource for the table view. I'm starting the query with NSMetadataQuery and then starting animation on the NSProgressIndicator using startAnimation. When the query finishes, I stop the progress indicator and populate the view using reloadData. When I do the above in willEnterPane, the progress indicator never updates, but once the query is done, the view updates as expected (though I have that crash problem I reported earlier when I try to interact with the view). When I do the above in didEnterPane, the progress indicator spins (yay!) but once the query is done, it goes away and my table view does NOT update after calling reloadData. I might be fairly new to Cocoa but I've found myself making great progress, only to be stymied by somewhat bizarre and unexplained gotchas. What am I missing? _______________________________________________ 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/mwu%40rochester.rr.com This email sent to mwu(a)rochester.rr.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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PackageMaker 2 - dynamic install location?
by Nicholas Meyer 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Hello, I'm working with Macs in an enterprise environment, and as the number of Macs we support grows, we're trying to find ways to streamline our support and maintenance. One thing we are trying to do is package up software installations and updates with PackageMaker so they can be easily deployed via Apple Remote Desktop. There is one problem that is setting us back with the upgrade packages. As our program has evolved, on some computers software was installed in different locations. I've written a script to quickly find the folder location where a particular piece of software is currently installed; however, I've been unable to find in the documentation a way to translate the result of that script into a change in the install destination for a package. Does there exist a way to do this? (We are currently still using Tiger, so I would need to use PackageMaker 2 to do this) Thanks, Nick _______________________________________________ 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: Component with helper application install
by Philip Aker 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On 08-07-08, at 15:38, Stéphane Sudre wrote: Thanks Stéphane, I found xattr -d com.apple.quarantine … - Editing in raw mode can crash the application. - Bundle Search gets enabled by default. - Metapackage can not be created with the command line tool. - External scripts can't be used. - Requirements settings are not correctly built in multiple cases. - Some options such as overwrite permissions are not supported. + some other bugs received off list. :-( Philip Aker echo astwta@lvpc.dslh@nl | tr a-z@. p-za-o.@ Democracy: Two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch. _______________________________________________ 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.… So my question is can we launch the app from our installer package when it is run so as to dispense with the "first run" dialog PITA during the installation process? I don't remember where I've read that and don't remember the solution but it was something related to extended attributes that you had to modify after installation is completed. But I couldn't find any extended attributes in our app, either in a post-flight script during the installation process nor after restart. What was a help was to use lsregister in the script. This avoids the double restart problem to get the file icons appearing correctly. Bottom line is that the "first run" dialog still appears and that's not desirable. I can't fathom the logic where the app is installed requiring admin permission, run, but the OS still presents the blasted dialog on restart. Why should we get that behavior when obviously, the user has consented to the install? BTW, I'm using Xcode 3.0/ 10.5.3. I haven't used PackageMaker.app since about 10.3. I like the new interface design but the app seems to have a few problems retaining my settings and crashed a few times. Are there any known issues you can clue me in on? - You can't easily reorder packages. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: weird refresh problem with installer plugin
by Michael Wu 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com On Jul 8, 2008, at 4:26 PM, Paul Miller wrote: -- Paul Miller | paul(a)fxtech.com | www.fxtech.com | Got Tivo? _______________________________________________ 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/mwu%40rochester.rr.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.… where do your set up your delegate for your tableView? You may also want to check with Cocoa Dev list for your crash... I don't know if this is a problem specific to installer plugins or something else, but parts of my custom installer plugin UI are not refreshing properly. My view contains an NSTableView which will contain the results of a query, and a progress indicator (spinner) which is shown while the query executes. My pane is the dataSource for the table view. I'm starting the query with NSMetadataQuery and then starting animation on the NSProgressIndicator using startAnimation. When the query finishes, I stop the progress indicator and populate the view using reloadData. When I do the above in willEnterPane, the progress indicator never updates, but once the query is done, the view updates as expected (though I have that crash problem I reported earlier when I try to interact with the view). When I do the above in didEnterPane, the progress indicator spins (yay!) but once the query is done, it goes away and my table view does NOT update after calling reloadData. I might be fairly new to Cocoa but I've found myself making great progress, only to be stymied by somewhat bizarre and unexplained gotchas. What am I missing? This email sent to mwu(a)rochester.rr.com This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Component with helper application install
by Stéphane Sudre 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Greetings from Vancouver, Background info: § - Editing in raw mode can crash the application. - Bundle Search gets enabled by default. - Metapackage can not be created with the command line tool. - External scripts can't be used. - Requirements settings are not correctly built in multiple cases. - Some options such as overwrite permissions are not supported. - You can't easily reorder packages. etc. _______________________________________________ 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.… On Jul 8, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Philip Aker wrote: Our QuickTime component is currently distributed with a helper background application embedded in the component's Resources folder. The purpose of the app is to provide info to the system about a file type that QuickTime Player doesn't know about, an icon for the file type, and forward double-clicks on our files to QTP. When we claim the file type this way we get QuickLook previews in Leopard for free. The lowest system supported is 10.4. Our problem is on Leopard. We want to work around the fact that when an application is first run, the user gets a dialog (quarantine?) asking for confirmation that running the app is ok. That's because the QL Preview things don't work as expected unless the application has already been run. That is, the user has to restart from the installer, launch the app by double-clicking one of our files, suffer through "first run", and then restart again. So my question is can we launch the app from our installer package when it is run so as to dispense with the "first run" dialog PITA during the installation process? I don't remember where I've read that and don't remember the solution but it was something related to extended attributes that you had to modify after installation is completed. BTW, I'm using Xcode 3.0/ 10.5.3. I haven't used PackageMaker.app since about 10.3. I like the new interface design but the app seems to have a few problems retaining my settings and crashed a few times. Are there any known issues you can clue me in on? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: Searching for multiple instances of an application?
by Stéphane Sudre 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com Mark - _______________________________________________ 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.… On Jul 8, 2008, at 9:29 PM, Paul Miller wrote: Mark Krenek wrote: I've written an installer plugin to do this same thing - find all target apps and let the user pick which one to update. This is done in code in the plugin. NSMetadataQuery is Spotlight. I use it to find ALL applications. Then I search through that list looking for the specific apps I want (by bundle identifier or name). It may be possible to configure a query that does that automatically. Here's basically what I do: query = [[NSMetadataQuery alloc] init]; [query setSearchScopes:[NSArray arrayWithObject:targetVolume]]; [query setPredicate:[NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"kMDItemContentTypeTree = 'com.apple.application-bundle'"]]; [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(_queryNotification:) name:nil object:query]; [query startQuery]; My _queryNotification routine is where I scan the results. Got this all working and building a datasource for a NSTableView which shows the supported applications. The first column uses a Checkbox formatter so it can be toggled on/off. I've implemented a tableView:setObjectValue:forTableColumn:row method but when I click on one of the check-boxes, it is never called, and the app crashes down in objc_msgSend in [NSCell setObjectValue:]. Any idea what I'm missing here? Source code used in your tableView:setObjectValue:forTableColumn:row implementation. It could be an issue with the retain counts of some data. Seeing the source could help. Regarding the willEnterPane and didEnterPane issues, the names of the method can mean that willEnterPane is called before the pane is displayed. And didEnterPane, that the pane is now displayed. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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Re: removing Target section from InstallerSections.plist
by Stéphane Sudre 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev(a)lists.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.… On Jul 7, 2008, at 11:56 PM, Paul Miller wrote: I'm working on an Installer plugin that will find the target location for me, and I don't want the Target section to show up. If I remove it from the InstallerSections.plist, the installer complains about not having enough disk space. Do I need to some environment variables or something in my plugin to get the rest of the installer to continue properly? You can't do this. Removing standard steps can trigger a crash in Installer.app or prevent installation from working correctly. One workaround could be to set the target volume to be the root volume only but as there's still a bug in the latest version of Leopard with the Change Location... button being shown occasionally, you can't really do this either. Yet this is the best solution so far. This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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weird refresh problem with installer plugin
by Paul Miller 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Installer-dev(a)lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) -- Paul Miller | paul(a)fxtech.com | www.fxtech.com | Got Tivo? _______________________________________________ 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 don't know if this is a problem specific to installer plugins or something else, but parts of my custom installer plugin UI are not refreshing properly. My view contains an NSTableView which will contain the results of a query, and a progress indicator (spinner) which is shown while the query executes. My pane is the dataSource for the table view. I'm starting the query with NSMetadataQuery and then starting animation on the NSProgressIndicator using startAnimation. When the query finishes, I stop the progress indicator and populate the view using reloadData. When I do the above in willEnterPane, the progress indicator never updates, but once the query is done, the view updates as expected (though I have that crash problem I reported earlier when I try to interact with the view). When I do the above in didEnterPane, the progress indicator spins (yay!) but once the query is done, it goes away and my table view does NOT update after calling reloadData. I might be fairly new to Cocoa but I've found myself making great progress, only to be stymied by somewhat bizarre and unexplained gotchas. What am I missing? This email sent to site_archiver(a)lists.apple.com

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