site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding :from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; bh=jwGS832CnlkZdu8bQbAqx9xWoUH4HjuIUByd1bQATpQ=; b=p4GXm1S+cAryiEWJF5rrdDysZNXEWLS9RN7p3+egy+MiktrtVCy08yDFP/0GLSyYyZ SOmeMkjQyXQIt5LrMfwMTUFVI6+UUCjlOGpqqlPH0HE5oUeUg7F6L9QfAfAe4Q0aTWVB W3PK27C4jSfsARMM3TPLRStlbJJTM2pdkPiWY= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc :content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=Lvw77xFBxSUY1iV6KYcLl5UEnGPDAdXQcrB1SiqQ2W2bURhiU5Rae+uSbqaMr9kkp0 xdvQ8ZexVyrXniRTjK0RIcrgBsLAAMB6oQNRJ1mj4wOUHLQGxKHV9SAJXaPKCJl+qbt8 o4Ny4YfQFkoBCuu1f+lz9SxqjAfzj3d3MIaZk= On Aug 7, 2009, at 6:22 PM, Howard Moon wrote: Hi all, Installer.app format limitation. http://s.sudre.free.fr/Stuff/Installer/Installer_Plugins/index.html Hope it can help. _______________________________________________ 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... is there any way to have our custom background only show up for *some* dialogs? It's annoying to have an image behind the scrolling text of the license, for example (even though we've made it so it's a ghost-like image of our logo). And the tiny amount of space at the bottom left isn't really suitable for our logo. Personally, I'm not a big fan of putting a small logo in the lower left corner. It almost always looks better to put a big translucent one (alpha <= 0.3) right aligned. If you want to display a nice clean logo of your company or application, you can use the Welcome text for that or set it as the background picture of the disk image if you use one for distribution. I've messed around a little bit with an installer plugin, but have not yet found any documentation describing how I might create a dialog and insert it in the install sequence. (The default installer plugin, when added to my installer, simply shows a view on top of one of the existing dialogs in the sequence, not a separate window.) Assuming that by dialog, you mean pane. Yes, that was an Installer Plugin is for. To display an additional step with one or more panes. The pane is where your UI should go if you want to ensure a smooth experience for the end user. Separate windows would be used mostly for alerts or notifications related to panes. On a more general note, is the apparent inability to add or customize dialogs in the installers a function of the Apple installer app, or just the tools (e.g., PackageMaker or Iceberg)? Is there anyone out there who's making package installers and does *any* customization? Is there any documentation on how to go about it? Writing Installer Plugins requires Cocoa development. You can find additional information here: This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com