I need to create a nice installer for a Mac application. I want it to be a disk image (DMG), with a predefined size, layout and background image. I need to do this programmatically in a script, to be integrated in an existing build system (more of a pack system really, since it only create installers. The builds are done separately). ...
How can I build a native Mac OS X installer for my application, on a non-Mac platform? For example, I have a windows pc and a Java application. I want the windows pc to build an installer (possibly inside a .dmg archive) that works with Apple installer. ...
Is it possible to build a .dmg file (for distributing apps) from a non-Mac platform? And if yes, how? ...
I am trying to FTP some apple DMG files, if we do it by hand through Safari or IE it ends up at the destination just fine and uncorrupted. However, if I use a freeware FTP client that we had been using with great success for zip's and exe's or if I use a Powershell script I finished off (adapted from another stackover flow's question's a...
Hi I want to create a dmg file for my Mac project. Can someone please tell me how to do this? This being my first Mac project, I do not have any idea how to proceed. I also want to give the user an option of running the app on start-up. How do I do this? Thanks. P.S. I also want to add a custom license agreement. ...
If I mount the DMG file using system calls to hdiutil and my application quits unexpectedly, the DMG remains mounted but because I mount it privately with -nobrowse, it doesn't show up in Finder. Is there a way to mount it using some framework or API that will be smart enough to unmount if my application unexpectedly quits? Basically, I...
Hi, I'm writing an iPhone app in simulator/debug mode at the moment. I'd like to know, after I build it, where does the binary go? I want to send this file to my friend to show him what I'm doing so far. Also, how do I package apps into .dmg files? That seems to be the better format to send app to other people? ...
I am using SLAs bundled with my DMGs as described here. However, I want to support SLAs for languages (for example Catalan) beyond those given in the SLAResources file provided by Apple. Is this possible? ...
A lot of applications on the mac show a little graphic when the installer DMG is initially opened - the graphic basically allows you to drag and drop the app in that window without having to do it in finder (I'm not talking about package manager here). Any idea if there's a standard way to create that type of experience? ...
It seems like using Finder UX or some sort of UI tool (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/871199/create-drag-drop-graphic-when-installing-os-x-application-from-dmg) the only way to customize how a DMG looks when opened up. That doesn't scale too well and isn't automatable enough. Anyone know of way to achieve the same thing but using to...
Hi, I want to change the default icon of a dmg, I'ld like to do like skype or dropbox which use the default image volume icon, but I don't manage to find it with the finder. Do you have any idea where I could find it? Thanks for your answer, Boris ...
Before submitting my app I want to test it on devices with the full range of iPhone OS available. So, I have 2 questions that I am struggling with and would greatly appreciate any help or advice. What versions of the OS are in use? I know that the App Store will only accept apps for 2.2.1 and 3 but all the features I'm using have been a...
It is easy enough to add an alias to the Applications folder inside a DMG as it is at /Applications on every Mac. But is it possible to add an alias to a user's Documents folder, where the Documents folder has a different path for each user? I tried adding an alias to ~/Documents, but it became an alias to /Users/andyb/Documents, which o...
Here's what I want: Given a set of definitions (preferably in Python) on what files to install where and what post-install script to run, etc.. I would like this program to generate installers for the three major platforms: MSI on Windows dmg on MacOSX Tarball w/ install.sh (and rpm/deb, if possible) on Linux For example, installco...
I have prepared a disk image with my application,which i want to install in Applications folder. When i copy the application from the disk image to the applications folder, i see that first it gets generic application icon (sometimes my application icon with a prohibitory sign (or broken folder) ). It becomes executable application after...
Hi All, I want to create a DMG file for my application. That DMG file must give me the following functionlity. 1-- If I reboot my computer then my application must start automatically. How to achieve this type of functionality in my DMG file. Thanks Sunil Kumar Sahoo ...
What's the preferred way to create a distributable file for Mac OS: dmg or pkg? ...
Hi guys I have a situation in which my .dmg file will on my removable storage device which contains my application. when i double click on it, it will get mounted on my local machine and inside the mounted volume will be my .app (aplication file). Now I want my application to auto launch once my dmg file is mounted on my local machine. ...
I want to distribute a cross-platform application for which the executable file is slightly different, depending on the user who downloaded it. This is done by having a placeholder string somewhere in the executable that is replaced with something user-specific upon download. The webserver that has to do these string replacements is a L...
i have created a disk image using disk utility. but i want to add some text to the disk image for providing help on what to do. How can i do this? Can anybody help me out? ...