If this interests you, check out my newer app, RepoParser!
RepoMaker is the biggest app I have made to date. It was also one of the first I started and I learned the most from it. At first it was designed to basically get you on your feet concerning making Installer.app Repositories for the iPhone but it then started to grow into a fully featured repository editor. Currently it has some documentation for starting a repository and a GUI for adding packages and starting the mainframe. The only downside to this is that you need to paste the code into your XML file manually. I am in the middle of a IO Filestream project that would allow it to parse and modify a repository.XML file through a GUI but I ran into some minor problems and lost interest.
As of now it can read a repository.XML file and gather a drop-down list of the packages. When a package is selected the properties of that package are displayed in modifiable text boxes. However, the actual installation script has TONS of problems when it is modified and even the simple properties have some problems when they are modified. If people were interested in me finishing this application I would certainly pursue it but otherwise what you see is what you get.
Also, the MD5 Checksum script in RepoMaker has a little problem… It doesn’t work. I used X1 to encode instead of X2 and it ends up missing some numbers (0s and 1s). If you are using it you will have to generate your own MD5 Checksums as this does not generate them properly. Or you could ask me to fix it as it would not take long at all (I have working MD5 Checksum code in my other apps).
As usual, the graphics used in this application were created by Allen of planet-iphones.com.
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iPhoneShop provides a GUI for extracting and building .artwork files for use on the iPhone. Previously on Windows this was only possible through command prompt execution of .jar files. iPhoneShop also marks the first time I had to use an installer for any of my applications. I needed an installer because iPhoneShop still uses the popular .jar file and simply provides a GUI. I tried embedding the .jar file into the .exe and writing it to a temporary location on the HD during program execution but the .jar wouldn’t write properly because it was compressed. The easiest solution was to create an installer that installed both the executable file and the .jar to a set location.
Credit to the .jar file goes to the creators though I don’t believe the project is still being pursued.
As usual, the graphics used in this application were created by Allen of planet-iphones.com.
Download below and comment with ideas, suggestions, questions, and requests!
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