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  | #!/bin/sh | |
| echo "What should the Application be called (no spaces allowed e.g. GCal)?" | |
| read inputline | |
| name=$inputline | |
| echo "What is the url (e.g. https://www.google.com/calendar/render)?" | |
| read inputline | |
| url=$inputline | |
| echo "What is the full path to the icon (e.g. /Users/username/Desktop/icon.png)?" | |
| read inputline | |
| icon=$inputline | |
| chromePath="/Applications/Google\ Chrome\ Canary.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome\ Canary" | |
| appRoot="/Applications" | |
| # various paths used when creating the app | |
| resourcePath="$appRoot/$name.app/Contents/Resources" | |
| execPath="$appRoot/$name.app/Contents/MacOS" | |
| profilePath="$appRoot/$name.app/Contents/Profile" | |
| plistPath="$appRoot/$name.app/Contents/Info.plist" | |
| # make the directories | |
| mkdir -p $resourcePath $execPath $profilePath | |
| # convert the icon and copy into Resources | |
| if [ -f $icon ] ; then | |
| sips -s format tiff $icon --out $resourcePath/icon.tiff --resampleHeightWidth 128 128 >& /dev/null | |
| tiff2icns -noLarge $resourcePath/icon.tiff >& /dev/null | |
| fi | |
| # create the executable | |
| cat >$execPath/$name <<EOF | |
| #!/bin/sh | |
| exec $chromePath --app="$url" --user-data-dir="$profilePath" "\$@" | |
| EOF | |
| chmod +x $execPath/$name | |
| # create the Info.plist | |
| cat > $plistPath <<EOF | |
| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | |
| <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" “http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd”> | |
| <plist version=”1.0″> | |
| <dict> | |
| <key>CFBundleExecutable</key> | |
| <string>$name</string> | |
| <key>CFBundleIconFile</key> | |
| <string>icon</string> | |
| </dict> | |
| </plist> | |
| EOF | 
  
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