site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.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... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com <installer-dev-bounces+xochitl_lunde=tripplite.com@lists.apple.com> wrote on 03/05/2010 01:16:55 PM:

Is there any new info on this topic?  We've run into problems

setting custom backgrounds on 10.6 even for use on 10.6.  We've seen

several variations on the steps, and none of them are working for us.

We've tried setting the image using the view properties (cmd-J),

we've tried setting the background using code like this (from a

script posted by Paul Sanders:

mkdir "/Volumes/$vol/.background" cp install_resources/DMG_background.jpg "/Volumes/$vol/.

background/background.jpg"

echo '    tell application "Finder"      tell disk "'$vol'"            open            set theViewOptions to the icon view options of container window            set background picture of theViewOptions to file ".

background:background.jpg"            update without registering applications            delay 5      end tell    end tell ' | osascript

If we set it manually through the view properties it shows up--but

only until we unmount the image.  Then it's gone when we remount it.

If we set it using AppleScript while we're building the image it

looks like it works, there are no error messages and all the files

are there on the resulting image, but no background image shows up.

We've tried a couple of commercial disk image builders, and both of

them had the same problem on 10.6.  BG images weren't just missing

on earlier versions of the OS, they weren't there on 10.6 either.

I've seen several discussions about this on the web, but none of

them have had a resolution.

We've seen different variations of "Build your disk images on 10.5",

but since our main build depends on Xcode 3.2, this isn't really an

acceptable solution.  If we can't build proper images on 10.6 even

for distribution on 10.6, then something's screwy...

Hoping we've missed something obvious, Kevin

I have recently spent several days testing with the DMG Canvas tool from Araelium group.  http://www.araelium.com/dmgcanvas/ Version 2.0 released last month does build backward compatible disk images from Snow Leopard and the background does show up for me.  There's a Preferences menu in the DMG Canvas drop down from the menu bar, and you have to check the box to enable backward compatibility. (I am only targeting Leopard and Snow Leopard, I haven't checked Tiger.) I have noted a few things when building:    *  Leopard and Snow Leopard wrap text at different widths.  I can't seem to get around this.  Because my background has a very "inside-the-box" feel, I've had to mess with the font size to get it to fit on both platforms.    *  When I build for backward compatibility using Snow Leopard, DMG Canvas changes the way the file name text appears.  Instead of having text wrap, it is only allowed to be a fixed size which looks just a little wider than the icon itself.  So my Applications alias can show up as "App...ns".  To get around this, I made the icons bigger, and the text smaller.  It still doesn't look as good, and I am still getting around to trying the other suggested packaging tools.    *  If I build the same project in Leopard, the text does not truncate like mentioned above.  I have emailed the Araelium Group about it.  I tried paying for the program, but the text editing stuff that is unlocked doesn't solve the problem.  If more people would email them, maybe it would help get this fixed. So far, I only really got to try out the FreeDMG alternative suggested from kelleycomputing.net.  I didn't like this one, I didn't see a way to add a background image.  I started trying the iDMG tool from nscoding.co.uk, but I was slightly confused when it came up and so I have only gotten partway through reading the manual. Oh another thing about using DMG Canvas.  You should open your project, save it somewhere, close out, move it where you want it (like if you need to check it into SVN) and THEN reopen and add your files.  I had much better luck when I did this.  Also make sure that the files you put in your DMG Canvas project are always in the same spot they were the last time you built.  So if your background was on your desktop when you created the project, it needs to still be on your desktop every time you build. Can you point out any of the web discussions you referenced?  I would like to see those too, because I think you and I are trying to do similar things.  My software is also built on Snow Leopard only because some of our developers only have Snow Leopard. Was DMG Canvas one of the commercial disk image builders you tried?  Which ones have you tried that have not worked?  I'm planning to try the following if time allows:    * FileStorm (haven't tried yet)    * DMG Packager ( www.skoobysoft.com/utilities/dmgp.html  - haven't tried yet )    * FreeDMG ( www.kelleycomputing.net/freedmg - I tried this one, it was just drag and drop your folder and it packaged it.  Doesn't look like it does much in the way of allowing configurable presentation of the disk image folder )    * iDMG ( www.nscoding.co.uk  - I downloaded this, but I didn't get through reading the manual yet. ) Xo