Signing launchers and installers
Since the release of Vista, code signing has been of growing interest for our users, mainly because a signed installer or launcher produces nicer and less UAC dialogs when it wants to elevate its privileges.
install4j provides a signing hook for all generated windows executables. On step 5 of the Windows Media Wizard, you can specify any external tool with the executable files as parameter. The signing tool will be called with the working directory set to the project file parent directory so you can specify keys and certificates relatively. You can use the $EXECTUABLE variable to refer to the launcher or installer and an $OUTFILE variable if the tool you use requires different in and out files. (more…)