Re: How to do local distribution?
Patricia Shanahan wrote:
...
..In addition, each run reads one XML file and writes another,
so I would need some way of specifying them.
...
examples of using the JNLP file service on that link form
earlier.
Wouldn't a file chooser require user interaction?
Yep. This is where I get confused though.
The other method (I can think of), that would allow
setting those parameters is to have a single
file that has two lines, one for the input file name,
the other for the output file name. The user can
edit that file by hand, and the application can use
it for its configuration.
But.. I do not see how editing the config. file would be
any easier for the end user than the file chooser
(especially if the app. can recall earlier choices, and
put the 'last file used' as the default in the file chooser)*.
* Note that is a lot easier to do with a fully trusted
app., using a standard file chooser - since the JNLP
based file chooser actually returns a ..
javax.jnlp.FileContents
..object, which has no methods to tell the application
the actual path to the file (for reasons of security, I
expect). Also, the FC object is not especially well
suited to being Serialized (this is based on a message
I saw on the web start forum, I did not investigate
further).
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