The script please, that way if I get the first draft wrong, I won't be asking you for a new one.
Ta Stephen On Thursday, July 21, 2011, Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: > 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
