Re: Creating a windows executable for a jar file
Lionel wrote:
Knute Johnson wrote:
Lionel wrote:
mikeboggs wrote:
Lionel wrote:
Hi,
I'm sure someone here knows the answer. All I want is an icon that
I can
double click in Windows to launch the jar file. I may need to export
some paths also.
Does anyone know how I can do this? I did create a batch file but it
opens a dos prompt in the background which I don't want.
Thanks
Lionel.
You can create a .vbs to run it.
set WshShell = createObject("Wscript.shell")
WshShell.run "jar whatever", 0, false
the "jar whatever" is of course the command you use to run the jar.
Save the .vbs; call it "Runjar.vbs" or something; then just
double-click it
The 0 in the .run command makes the command prompt invisible. The
false tells the script not to wait for the program to finish. Let me
know if this helps or if you have quesitons!
Great, I'll give this a go as soon as I can. Will the .vbs extension
show up? Also, how do I go about giving it a custom icon so that it
get's rolled out with that icon when I install?
Thanks
Lionel.
If you can run your jar file with the java.exe program you can make a
shortcut to it and run it by double-clicking on it. You don't need a
VBS script to start it.
Yes, I can double click it but there may be other things that I want to
do first, most likely export paths to other libraries, although at this
stage this has miraculously worked. I actually let Netbeans handle
creating the Jar for me, and as it turns out it seems to have been
smarter than I thought.
Can you give the shortcut to the jar an alternative icon? I will check
that myself.
right click on icon, click on Shortcut tab, there is a button right
there that lets you change the icon.
There is one other possibility, if you are running Windows XP Pro the
file type may not be set correctly in the file types. Just open My
Computer, Tools Tab, File Types Tab and set the JAR extension to be an
Executable Jar File.
A large reason for using Java is that it's cross-platform. I don't
intend to restrict the application (and the people I work with want it
to run on multiple platforms) to Windows. Personally I rarely use
Windows which is why I had to ask the question.
Thanks for you input.
Lionel.