Comments on: ChocTop – packaging and deployment of Cocoa applications

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:49:59 +0000

Howdy everyone! so I’m running SL 10.6.2 and xcode 3.2.1 and I’m also getting the icons in the dmg ignoring their positions in the rakefile… anyone ever solve this?

By: Gavin

Gavin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:10:38 +0000

Really nice looking tool and informative screencast.

Cheers.

By: No Name

No Name — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:57:10 +0000

I still have the following error on SnowLeopard 10.6.2 and xCode 3.2 :

error: can’t exec ‘/Developer/Library/Xcode/Plug-ins/Clang LLVM 1.0.xcplugin/Contents/Resources/ccache gcc’ (No such file or directory)

By: Wouter

Wouter — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:50:11 +0000

I’m having trouble displaying a custom DMG background on Leopard systems when generating the DMG on a Snow Leopard system. The positioning of the icons work, it’s only the background that remains white when it should be a PNG. When opening the DMG on a SL system, this problem does not occur.

I’ve been trying to change some of the AppleScript, but no luck so far. Anyone with the same problem?

By: Gary W. Longsine

Gary W. Longsine — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:13:35 +0000

DrNic: On a cleanly installed Snow Leopard system (e.g. where other Ruby stuff hasn’t previously been installed) it appears one additional step is needed (install rubigen), like this:

sudo gem install rubigen
sudo gem install choctop
install_choctop path/to/xcode/project

By: Jose Lobato

Jose Lobato — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:56:09 +0000

Hi Nic, pupsor,

yes I experience the same problem. I’mt trying to discover the problem. No success so far.

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:12:57 +0000

@pupsor – hmm, perhaps SL changed the attributes or something. I personally don’t have SL installed yet. Hmm.

By: pupsor

pupsor — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:30:41 +0000

Hello Nic! It’s me again Now, I have a big problem with ChocTop. I’ve used Snow Leopard 10.6.1 and Xcode 3.2, but I can’t change coordinates of icon app/application. It looks like this:

ps: I’ve tried download your example and check it, anyway – same problem, app/application icon didn’t change coordinates ;(

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:22:40 +0000

@pupsor, that might be a nice idea, though I’m not sure how to do it. The Applications folder is a pseudo-symlink (not even a real symlink).

Your app might need to do the extra tasks when the person runs it the first time.

By: pupsor

pupsor — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:55:37 +0000

Thank you for good project. It’s very useful and easy. Dr.Nik, I have one question about ChocTop: How can I start script after drag a program icon into Application folder? Sometimes I need install permissions or drivers and “run script after drag” could be better way to install perm/drivers. What do you think about?