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scully13 · ‎May 07, 2008

I don't know of a way to use the DMG file directly but what I did was extract the DMG file and then archive it on the Mac by right-clicking it. Then I had a zip file that I could extract and launch from IA. Using the steps here: http://community.macrovision.com/showthread.php?t=178496

scully13 · ‎Apr 28, 2008

I think the closest thing to what you are looking for is the .iap_xml file that you use to load your install project. It is in XML format and contains the logic that you set up in the InstallAnywhere Advanced Designer. I just got started on this but my plan is to build my initial .iap_xml files using the Advanced Designer. Then I'll write code to modify the lines I need changed for different installers. Then I'll also have the same program that modified the XML project build it using the build.exe. Sometimes I just replace lines in the file and other times I split the .iap_xnml file up into chunks and then read certain pieces in and write them into a useable complete script also writing dynamic parts of the project file using code.

scully13 · ‎Apr 22, 2008

Can't get Chinese Simplified to show in installer. I have an installer that has English and Chinese Simplified selected under Locales-Locale List. Then on the build tab I'm bundling my installer with Sun JRE 1.6.0_02 i18n Win32. I'm told the i18n means it's international so it should have the Chinese support in it. However, at install time it doesn't even ask which language it just automatically chooses English. It used to work on a test machine here and they recently rebuilt that machine and now I can't get the Chinese language to show up anymore. So, I'm not sure what it had before that was allowing the Chinese language to be selected. It's an XP box and I've tried installing support for RTF languages, East Asian languages. I even set the non-Unicode programs to Chinese (PRC). I also installed the JRE with multi-language support. What else can I try?

scully13 · ‎Apr 15, 2008

From Advanced Designer go under: Installer UI -> Look & Feel then under the General UI Settings tab make sure the Silent check box is checked. Then from a command line launch it something like this: "install.exe -i silent"

scully13 · ‎Mar 28, 2008

Hi James, I think this what your looking for: http://community.zerog.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?s=421602cf06d9ffff;act=ST;f=14;t=5377 I've never used it myself.

scully13 · ‎Mar 25, 2008

Couldn't you also just use the user input result variables and check those in the Rules of your Show Message Dialog. Add 2 "Compare InstallAnywhere Variables" rules and change the AND to OR at the top. The first rule will check $USER_INPUT_RESULT_1$ equals and the second rule will check $USER_INPUT_RESULT_2$ equals . This way you should'nt need the custom code. If either variable is empty it keeps them on that dialog and shows your message.

scully13 · ‎Mar 17, 2008

For question #2 it does have 2 panels that you can semi-customize. Like during the pre-install you can use the Advanced or Simple Get User Input panels. Then you can plug in what type of controls they should be. The variables to use and the text to display. Then you use a variable that you choose to read in the values set.

scully13 · ‎Mar 10, 2008

You aren't the only one. I couldn't get it to work either. I ended up populating paths for stderr and stdout instead of console on the Mac side for debugging.

scully13 · ‎Mar 10, 2008

Thanks ck that fixed my problem too from the thread titled "Using IA to install Mac application". scully13

scully13 · ‎Mar 10, 2008

Looks like it was corrupting the resources somehow. I tried what I saw in the thread titled "OS X application icons don't display" about using ditto and it works now. I did find other .app files that behaved fine but for some reason the 2 I was installing were getting messed up.

scully13 · ‎Mar 10, 2008

I'm hoping I'm doing it wrong. I can put together a sample if needed but I'm still trialing the software so I'd hate to start passing installs around. I've tried using Add Files... to add a file like something.app. I'm building from Windows so I then tried that from a Mac machine and built the installer without any luck. I then tried using the "Expand Archive" Install-Action for a BIN file and it just copied the BIN file to the installation directory and I was then unable to even opne the BIN file. So, the I tried Zip with "Expand Archive" and it extracted the file but I couldn't run it. I was still able to open it as though it was a bundle but the executable said it was a document instead of a Universal binary. What process are you using to install the .app?

scully13 · ‎Mar 10, 2008

What would the proper way be to install a Mac application? The problem I'm having is that the application gets copied to OSX but it won't run. I've tried several formats (BIN, Zip, .app) and they won't run once I've extracted or copied the contents to the system. I can however just copy the BIN or DMG file to the system and then the user can extract it but that seems like a waste when I'm supposedly installing it for them. So, how can I install it?

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