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Deploy swiftDialog on macOS with a PKG Fileset

Description

swiftDialog is an open source macOS utility that lets scripts display dialogs, progress, and prompts to the signed-in user. This recipe packages swiftDialog as a FileWave PKG Fileset and optionally deploys a profile that allows notifications.

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Directions

 

Deploying swiftDialog to your Macs using FileWave

  1. Download the required swiftDialog PKG from the current GitHub releases. Check that release's macOS requirement before setting the Fileset compatibility range.
  2. Create a new PKG fileset in FileWave and import the swiftDialog PKG. See the example: PKG - swiftDialog.fileset.zip
    • Choose New Desktop Fileset, select PKG, then import the downloaded package.
    • In the Fileset properties, set the supported macOS range to match the swiftDialog release you downloaded. Current releases can require a newer macOS version than older packages.
    • Additionally the script below was added to set the notification icon to be a FileWave icon. You'll see in our example Fileset that it has this as a Preflight Script. When the icon is in place before the PKG it allows the custom icon to be used.

      #!/bin/zsh

if [ -f "/usr/local/sbin/FileWave.app/Contents/Resources/fwGUI.app/Contents/Resources/kiosk.icns" ]
then
    mkdir -p "/Library/Application Support/Dialog/"
    sips -s format png /usr/local/sbin/FileWave.app/Contents/Resources/fwGUI.app/Contents/Resources/kiosk.icns --out "/Library/Application Support/Dialog/Dialog.png"
else
    echo "File not found: /usr/local/sbin/FileWave.app/Contents/Resources/fwGUI.app/Contents/Resources/kiosk.icns"
fi

exit 0
  3. Download Profile - swiftDialog - Enable Notifications.fileset.zip if you want to allow swiftDialog notifications.
  4. Assign both swiftDialog and the swiftDialog Enable Notifications Filesets to your target macOS devices.

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