site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com On jeudi, octobre 12, 2006, at 02:16 AM, Bill Coderre wrote: _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Installer-dev mailing list (Installer-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/installer-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... On Oct 11, 2006, at 3:46 PM, Ben Zhu wrote: I like my installer to create a link of my installed app onto the dock. Can I run a script for this or is there any way to do this? There's nothing built in to the Apple Installer to do this, and no published, documented way to do it, either. Some Apple installers add items to the Dock, but the method they use is not guaranteed to work correctly, and is rather tricky. It also has undesirable side effects (it quits Dock.app, which causes loss of Dashboard state).
From what I see in some code doing this, the tricky part can be removed by writing a tool to change the Dock settings with the CFPreferences API. Yet it does not remove the quit or kill Dock.app part (but who cares about Dashboard?). This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com