On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Mark Taylor wrote:
> 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 It should be withdrawn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.
SoG and SPLAT do not have .bat scripts, you can only get then working from
the executable jar files.
> > 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.
No he doesn't. We're still short of a way of controlling application
instantiation (deep breath), perhaps Javaspaces might help... (but I
suspect the right way under Windows involves working with the registration
database, but a Java API, somewhere, might abstract this to something we
can get at).
> > 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).
As far as I know, once they have Java installed they all recognise
executable jar files.
> > 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).
Me too, needs a real windows expert (or sometime to read the right book).
Cheers,
Peter.
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