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Re: Program Icon from existing JAR?

At 21:33 -0700 27/6/01, Greg Guerin <email@hidden> wrote:

As you mention MRJ2.2 that reminds me of a question I'm dying to know
the answer to: will a Java application bundle, compiled against 1.1
classes and built on OSX as you suggest, run under MacOS 9 ... ?? I
think I tried it once and MacOS 9 said it wasn't compatible, but
would it be possible to place a MacOS 9 launcher in the bundle as
well as the regular OSX launcher and have them both use the same jar
file and other resources??

As I understand it, it should be possible (the docs mention this kind of
thing in a hand-waving kind of way). It may take 9.1, however.

In any case, I haven't tried it, so feel free to experiment and report any
interesting results.

Well, I am using 9.1 and just tried it again with fairly uninteresting results I'm afraid. This time the application built by MRJAppBuilder didn't even appear as a bundle under 9.1, just a folder whose name ends in ".app". Needless to say, double clicking it simply opens the folder rather than executing the application! (My previous attempt using PB at least was a bundle under 9.1, even if I couldn't execute it, but I made that one several software upgrades ago and may have hacked it about since.)

Has anyone here successfully managed to produce an application bundle that will run under OSX and 9.1? I thought the whole point of CarbonLib and bundle support in 9.1 was that you're supposed to be able to write applications that run natively under OSX but still work in 9.1. Is it not possible to do that from Java... ?

-Rolf
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Rolf Howarth, Square Box Systems Ltd, Stratford-upon-Avon UK.



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