site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com The answer is, no, there is nothing that does precisely what you want. Then use "none" for scaling. Thanks, -Howard On Aug 10, 2009, at 2:56 PM, Bill Coderre wrote: So does that mean the answer is "no"? Is this an Installer.app bug in the new OS? Or, is there a specific color we should use as our background color? -Howard On Aug 7, 2009, at 7:13 AM, Rusty Myers wrote: This site has a good picture with the measurements http://s.sudre.free.fr/Stuff/PackageMaker_Howto.html On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Tim Murison<tim.murison@radialpoint.com> wrote: Hi, -Tim _______________________________________________ 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/bc%40apple.com _______________________________________________ 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... Since a white background is not acceptable, I'd make a larger image, say, twice as tall and 20% wider than the default window size, and fill the extra space with a solid color or simple pattern. Save it as a compressed tiff, and the file size "bloat" will be rather small. Heck, try it twice as tall and twice as wide. On Aug 10, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Howard Moon wrote: but what does that tell me? I already know how to insert a background image into my installer package. That's working fine. The problem is that if the installer window changes size (as it does sometimes), then the background has to either stretch (which can look bad) or stay pinned to some side (which exposes the Installer's default window color). The question is, how to resolve this? Since there does not seem to be an attribute that tells the installer to use a specific default background *color* (so that any area exposed by the window expanding in size is the same color as the custom background's background color), is there a color choice that I can use as the background color of my custom background image, such that if the window grows and exposes "unpainted" areas, it will blend in with my background seamlessly? (And will this color be the same across OS versions 10.4,10.5 and 10.6 (etc.)?) So there's two cases: distribution-based installers, and the older format. In the distribution scripts, there's a tag in the xml called "background" which is documented in this document: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Reference/Distributi... The older format, there are flags in the Info.plist, which I am not sure where they are documented. Stephane has probably written them up. IFPkgFlagBackgroundAlignment IFPkgFlagBackgroundScaling On Aug 10, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Howard Moon wrote: Those measurements only apply for the default size of the pane. They don't help if the pane changes size. Under the new OS, if the user is able to change volumes, then the screen that appears increases in vertical size (instead of using a sideways-scrolling window for the list of volumes). This makes the background image the wrong size. As the OP stated, this makes a region appear that's not the same as our background. And making it stretch to fit causes our logo to stretch vertically, which is not acceptable. I am setting a background image to my installer packages. Sometimes the installer resizes its windows and when this happens, I can see the background color which is not the same as my image. Is it possible to set background color in Package Maker, if not, what size do I need to make my image to ensure that it will always cover the entire background of the installer window (I do not want to it stretch out of proportion). This email sent to bc@apple.com This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com