On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Rankin, SE (Stephen) wrote:
> All,
>
> I tried STARJAVA on Windows 98se, the problems I found are:
>
> 1. bat scripts do not appear to work.
true. Not certain about SoG and SPLAT, but the bat file for
treeview was just a (failed) experiment, it has never come close
to working on any version of windows. It should be withdrawn
really.
> 2. SoG and Splat to not start from Treeview.
Also true. I've got no idea how to start up SoG/SPLAT in external
JVMs from within java in an OS-neutral/windows-friendly way.
I don't think there is an easy fix for this, but Peter may know better.
> Is starting jar files from Windows Explorer a feature available in all
> Windows versions?
?? probably if they've got java on. An alternative is to use
'java -jar lib/treeview/treeview.jar' or whatever from the command line.
(something like this will also work in principle in other non-unix
environments).
> For future reference, we could do will some form of setup script that
> creates icons on the desktop, or in the start menu. We would have to have
> icons for each application.
This is of course an excellent idea. I had a go at doing it for treeview
around the time I was mucking about with .bat files, but owing to
my lack of knowledge of MS operating systems had no success at all.
You wouldn't think it was too hard.
It would be a good job for anyone who, at least, has a Windows
system they can use for development (happily this disqualifies me).
DaveG????
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