Andrew
Thank you. No forgiveness needed at all. I am not a MAC person at all; to my
own detriment I fear. I have only worked in PC and am trying to expand into the
available space.
Your description is exactly what I need for me to move on. I will ask a friend
with a MAC (using, I think, Panther) to give me a loaner of his machine and
I'll see what I get.
all the best
Derek
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On Aug 17, 2006, at 3:57 PM, D P wrote:
> For MAC dmg generation... any suggestions?
Well, if you were to follow the feel of a Mac, you wouldn't have an
install at all. Us Mac people prefer drag-and-drop installs, that
is, have your app, your readme, and your help files right inside your
disk image. Take advantage of Mach-O builds. Because they are
really folders, you can put things inside what a Mac user would see
as the application. There is no real need for having all your
resources in the same directory as the application that the users
double-click.
Also, it's also nice when the uninstall involves simply trashing the
application.
As for making the image itself, I just make a folder containing what
I want, then I tell Apple's Disk Utility to convert the folder to a
disk image.
When people download the image, they will open it, it will mount like
a hard drive, they will copy the application and anything else they
want into their Applications folder, and then unmount the image and
trash the image file.
forgive me if you are a Mac person and this is all second-hand
knowledge...
HTH
Andrew Keller
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