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Creating Dropbox like DMG package

Does anyone suggest a freeware tool/script/manual_way of creating Dropbox like DMG - enter image description here

Need to ask couple of questions --

  • I want double clicking the Folder-Icon should copy the folder(which would contain installer and uninstaller .app files of my application) into the system's /Applications folder.

Solution -- This has been solved using Applescript and changing icon of that applescript file to the folder-icon(i.e double clicking that script will move our folder(which would be present in a hidden folder) to /Applications.Any suggestions for second and third part?

  • Is it possible to show hyperlink of actual dropbox.com to actually open it's website?

  • And how we can customize volume's/Drive icon?

Solution

  • You can find a way to do it by reading this: Packaging a Mac OS X Application Using a DMG » asmaloney.com

    I believe you can also use the trick of naming a shellscript file something.command in order to make it double clickable, (but maybe it will open the terminal, -I haven't tried it).