[izpack-user] Info Panel Text Customizable Per Platform

Bruce Garrett

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Nov 5, 2009, 11:58:07 AM11/5/09

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Is there a way to permit different text resources to be displayed in the
Info Panel? I ask because I would like to provide "quick-start"
instructions for our application in that panel and these are different
for each platform.

On a hunch I tried this in the resources section, but it doesn't work.
I'm including it here to give you a sense of what I'm trying to do.

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Bruce Garrett
Systems Software Engineer
The Space Telescope Science Institute
Baltimore, Maryland. USA

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Kjell Braden

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Nov 5, 2009, 1:44:56 PM11/5/09

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Bruce Garrett schrieb:

> Is there a way to permit different text resources to be displayed in the
> Info Panel? I ask because I would like to provide "quick-start"
> instructions for our application in that panel and these are different
> for each platform.
>
> On a hunch I tried this in the resources section, but it doesn't work.
> I'm including it here to give you a sense of what I'm trying to do.
>
> <res id="InfoPanel.info.unix" src="unix_readme.txt"/>
> <res id="InfoPanel.info.windows" src="windows_readme.txt"/>
>
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> Bruce Garrett
> Systems Software Engineer
> The Space Telescope Science Institute
> Baltimore, Maryland. USA
>

Hi,

would creating the panel itself platform-dependent be an acceptable
solution for you?

Note that the izpack.unixinstall condition is not pre-defined (but
windows and linux is) and therefore would have to be created:

<java><class>com.izforge.izpack.util.OsVersion</class><field>IS_UNIX</field></java>
<returnvalue type="boolean">true</returnvalue>
</condition>
</conditions>

HTH
-Kjell

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Bruce Garrett

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Nov 5, 2009, 1:59:58 PM11/5/09

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This looks good...thank you. I will try it out now.

-Bruce

Bruce Garrett

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Nov 5, 2009, 3:18:04 PM11/5/09

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Hi,

This seems not to be working. I get an error message in the Info Panel saying that it cannot load the resource:

        Error : could not load the info text !

Here's my resource section:

    <resources>
        <res id="Installer.image" src="hubble.png" />
        <res id="Heading.image" src="stgms.png" />
        <res id="CustomLangpack.xml_eng" src="CustomLangpack_eng.xml" />

        <res id="TargetPanel.dir.unix" src="admin_default_install_dir.txt" />
        <res id="TargetPanel.dir.windows" src="admin_default_windows_install_dir.txt" />
        <res id="shortcutSpec.xml" src="admin_default_shortcut_spec.xml" />
        <res id="Win_shortcutSpec.xml" src="admin_windows_shortcut_specification.xml" />
    </resources>

My panels section:

    <panels>
        <panel classname="HelloPanel" />
        <panel classname="TargetPanel" />
        <panel classname="SummaryPanel" />
        <panel classname="InstallPanel" />
        <panel classname="ShortcutPanel" />

        <panel classname="InfoPanel" condition="izpack.unixinstall" id="info.unix" />
        <panel classname="SimpleFinishPanel" />
    </panels>

And the conditions section I added for unix support:

    <conditions>
        <condition type="java" id="izpack.unixinstall">
            <java><class>com.izforge.izpack.util.OsVersion</class><field>IS_UNIX</field></java>
            <returnvalue type="boolean">true</returnvalue>
        </condition>
    </conditions>

These should be, unless I made a spelling mistake I can't find, what you gave me to use. The compiler doesn't complain about any of this. The text files are there in the directory I am compiling from, and when I look inside the finished jar file I can see them and view them. However they're listed in the jar file as:

InfoPanel.info.info.windows
InfoPanel.info.info.linux
InfoPanel.info.info.unix

I've tried experimenting with naming the resources similarly and that does not help. Is there something else I am missing here?

-Bruce

Bruce Garrett

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Nov 5, 2009, 4:29:32 PM11/5/09

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Hi,

I have it working now, but with the HTMLInfoPanel. That panel works
with your suggested code for the InfoPanel just fine. I simply changed
the references from InfoPanel to HTMLInfoPanel and it worked. So I have
my solution.

Thank you for your help.

-Bruce

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