Tutorials or instructions on delivering MacOSX apps...

[Sarah Reichelt]

On 6 Feb 2004, at 8:34 pm, Robert Brenstein wrote:
>>
>> Who said Macs were easier? Not when it comes to compiling and 
>> delivering
>> apps! (<--WARNING: OBVIOUS TROLL)
>>
>
> This has always been true. From day one. Macs have been easier for end 
> users but supporting that properly has always required more work by 
> programmers (even with such great tools like THINK products were).
>
I think this is a very good point which is often over-looked. After our 
efforts, the customers get a single file, which automatically unpacks 
on download and gives them a disk image already open on the desktop. 
All they have to do is drag what appears to be a single file to their 
hard disk (although many apps will run fine from the disk image) and 
double-click. That's it - the complete installation process. 
Uninstalling is just as easy - trash that single file and it's gone. We 
know what lies under the surface, but why should our users have to 
bother about that.

Given that, I still have one problem with an OS X distribution which 
hopefully some guru on the list will be able to answer :-) (Alex - are 
you listening?)

I have an application and it is all bundled into a neat package, which 
I have set up in a folder with a background picture so that it shows 
the logo and the install instructions ("Drag this to your applications 
folder.") This works fine on my own computer and even when I create a 
disk image, compress it and then extract it again, I still get the 
picture showing. However when I send the compressed disk image to 
another computer, the picture doesn't show, even though the picture is 
hidden on the disk image.

I can only think of 2 possibilities and have no idea how to get around 
either of them:
1. The path is absolute, so it's looking for the image in "Sarah's HD" 
rather than in it's own folder.
2. This is dictated by a preference that is stored on my computer, not 
on the disk image.

I know this can be done as I have downloaded disk images with a 
background picture, so does anyone know how?

TIA,
Sarah
sarahr at genesearch.com.au
http://www.troz.net/Rev/