Native Installer Icons

Is it possible to use the custom icons (as with the AIR installer) on the native installer, so the .dmg/.exe installer files use these?
Currently, there is only a generic icon with the installers.
Thanks

Unfortunately, this isn't available directly through AIR. However, there are third party utilities on Windows that will allow you to modify the icon resources and it should be simple enough on Mac through File Info.
If you'd like to see this functionality added to AIR, I'd like to suggest you add a feature request to our ideas.adobe.com page.
Thanks,
Chris

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