How to create Desktop shortcuts on Mac Osx

Author: BitRock Support Date: November 03, 2008 22:01 Tags:

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You can create shortcuts on Mac OS X using <createSymLink>. You could use it at the end of the installation to create the shortcut:

<postInstallationActionList>
<createSymLink target="${installdir}/MyApplication.app" linkName="~/Desktop/MyShortcutName" />
</postInstallationActionList>

You may need to visit the Desktop with Finder to get it to 'refresh' and show the icon.

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Why doesn't the Create shortcut in the Files Pane

Author: charles61 Date: August 13, 2010 21:35

It seems silly to have a Create shortcut button in the Files Pane in the BitRock InstallBuilder for the Mac that does not work. It has been there since version 6.2.6. And now in 6.5.1. it still does not do anything for OSX.

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Author: BitRock Support Date: August 16, 2010 15:18

Hi Charles.

The Builder application can build projects for other platforms so even if shortcuts are not supported as a built-in feature for OS X, the button still allow creating shortcuts for Linux and Windows.

Even if your Builder does not allow creating installers for other platform than OS X (because you are using the OS X only version) you can still open the XML project of a multiplatform installer.

Best regards,

Juanjo.

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