MAC OS Certificates

Hi,

I'm having trouble trying to wade through the maze that is apple certificates. This walkthrough seems a little outdated, is there any up to date one available?

http://www.stencyl.com/help/viewArticle/198

Basically I'm just trying to sign a mac app for distribution (inside or out of the mac app store)

thanks.

I've just gone through this myself, new to apple and had a bit of a nightmare, but managed to get there in the end..

What part are you stuck on? or what part have you got up to? or what error are you getting?

Okay, it "seems" that I have the 3 certificates that are listed in "step 1"

i've done step 2 and 3 no problem and I exported desktop -> mac with no errors.

Now i tried to export desktop -> mac app store, and i get an error "could not sign app for the mac app store"

ok, just a quick run down of what i did...(im deploying to iSO) not sure if its different exporting to mac store over iOS? would assume its the same

1. Create a cert on apple mac, upload it to apple to get my dev and distribution certs..
2. Download both dev and distribution files and run them on my mac.
3. export the distribution one and set a password.
4. then create a provision profile for my app (distribution)
5. Create a provision profile (dev + UAD device) dev not adhoc

setup the ios details in stencyl to be the exported file in step 3 + added the password
set the distribution file to the file in step 4.
set the adhoc to file in step 5.

I hope that helps

also, i needed to open xcode, and goto preferences, select my apple id and download the provisioning profiles that i had made in steps 4 and 5

I guess I'm doing something wrong with the certificates for OSX. I'm perplexed by the plethora of certificates.

Certificates
- Development
- Pending

Provisioning Profiles
- Development
- Distribution

In keychain I have installed:

3rd party mac developer application
3rd plarty mac developer installer
mac developer:
developer id installer:
developer id application:
apple worldwide developer relations certificate authority

I'm signed in with xcode and have mac development / distribution / installer distribution / developer id application and developer id installer created and have downloaded the provisioning profile for the app.

Any luck finding a solution to this?  I completed a game this weekend and have been running into this same problem.  I've found a couple other similar posts in the forums but no fix.