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:mime-version:in-reply-to :references:content-type:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:from :subject:date:to:x-mailer; bh=p1m3lmZHcymSQcQUt1gur0pAwy6Gd61NFBdaicSDnSE=; b=h+JVRFrMId5S9MUL3bHSu1tHMGnyCS+qCT9ayEbDvjnEV+5WNah5oMCMfVtBkWBbDx 9ZhXjUBizQikAtQh9rjLWICMqDo7vfSS9izv8KweRIsFStkx+PEUofeGn2msmb7QYYAH xyqZ5asydWb7Uvn+m2UegniZ3llRu47h4qsgI= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:content-type:message-id :content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=CFbDpH0Yb+e0+Ps0LraEADi3qrC+YUk5Ubvgvv9zvYK3KtXAopw+OeUu86Ap7Z23CS Xm1KEINQBDcDQoCm1WSloPSPuB/OMkMf9hIR259tYEcWcxsCjYb+z0OFOQVHJbj1CjQ4 LtVHshWd0LKLgjt9MJScyi7uM19mrWWjJ+aIc= On Aug 6, 2009, at 8:23 PM, Karl Kuehn wrote: On Aug 6, 2009, at 9:15 AM, Howard Moon wrote: So a few notes about this: 2 companies that use custom dialog: - Apple, Inc - Microsoft Corp _______________________________________________ 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... I'm new to this list and to PackageMaker. I've been using VISE- X, and one of the things we do often is to add a custom dialog to the installation. I can't find any way to do this using PackageMaker. Overall, it seems like a much less useful tool than VISE-X (although it's free, so that's something!). Is there a way to add custom dialogs in PackageMaker? 1) You can create pkg plugins that can have custom dialogs, etc. You will have to do a little work, but it is not that tough. 2) You could put GUI things into scripts, but this is a really, really bad idea (see item 4). 3) I have rarely seen things that actually need custom GUIs. Most things will work with a thought-through custom package choices page. The only exception I can think of is EULA pages, and that is already part of the installer. Custom dialog can prove useful if you want to ask the user to quit the application you want to update. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com