I can make the "rising lambda" image which I think would be a good background for this; what size would you like? (Or should I send a script that takes the size as a parameter and produces a png?)
Robby On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle <stephen.degabrie...@acm.org> wrote: > Sorry guys, > > I *will* test this(below) tonight. > - It doesn't do the fancy background image (a hidden .folder with a > .png), reposition and resize icons. > - It will suffice to know if Finder responds to applescript 'tell > application "Finder"' commands. > [It does create a alias, which is mostly the same an a softlink.] > > If anyone has a nice background image, that will save me making one. > (and a custom folder with the logo if you can do it?) > > #!/bin/sh > # used example http://hayne.net/MacDev/Bash/make_alias > # thanks to authors > # Cameron Hayne (mac...@hayne.net), December 2003 > # Paul Russell (pruss...@sonic.net), May 2006 > > /usr/bin/osascript > /dev/null <<EOT > tell application "Finder" > set Src to POSIX file "/Applications" as text > set Dest to POSIX file > "/Users/spdegabrielle/Documents/Development/make alias test" as text > make new alias file to Src at folder Dest > end tell > EOT > > mv Applications "Drag into your Applications folder(here)" > > ----- > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Robby Findler > <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: >> I think that the dmg's size is proportional to the amount of data in >> it not the size it claims to have as a disk so we can probably just >> use 3 (or even maybe one). >> >> Robby >> >> On Tuesday, July 19, 2011, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: >>> Two days ago, Robby Findler wrote: >>>> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Jakub Piotr Cłapa <jpc...@zenburn.net> >>>> wrote: >>>> > [1]: >>>> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/96882/how-do-i-create-a-nice-looking-dmg-for-mac-os-x-using-command-line-tools >>>> >>>> Mecki's answer here sounds just perfect for us, since we only really >>>> need one (or three, I suppose). >>> >>> IIUC, there are problems with the size -- IIUC, it won't grow which >>> means that it'll be bigger than needed, which also means that we need >>> a template DMG for each distribution kind which is 9 DMGs at the >>> moment ({PPC,Intel,x86_64} and three for each -- textual, normal, >>> full), and these DMGs need to live somewhere out of the repository. >>> >>> The AppleScript thing looks more robust, but I'm not sure if it can >>> work when I'l not logged into the machine properly. It's sshing to >>> the packaging machine, which means that I don't have the Finder thing >>> running. Anyone knows if this is a problem? >>> >>> >>> Two days ago, Robby Findler wrote: >>>> FWIW, I believe we build these things on a mac, so figuring out how to >>>> do that under linux is not necessary (for us). >>> >>> Yes. I wouldn't rely on some emulation driver with these things... >>> >>> -- >>> ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: >>> http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! >>> >> >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev > > > > -- > > -- > Stephen De Gabrielle > stephen.degabrie...@acm.org > Telephone +44 (0)20 85670911 > Mobile +44 (0)79 85189045 > http://www.degabrielle.name/stephen > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev