Hi
I have followed the advice of others and have placed a JRE on my USB, just in time as my current desktop only has 1.3 !
For most of my apps (datastudio & freemind) I simply create a batch file which hard codes the relative path to the java.exe and this works a treat.
Two questions:
1)
When I do this I end up with 1 dos window and 1 app window, is there any way I can get the dos window to "go away" leaving my application running. On *nix I would simply tell it to run in the background.
2)
The batch file approach does not seem to work with RSSOwl, I get "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java"
Any ideas ?
Ross
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As for question one, CMDOW is a tool that can be used to hide the command window. Check it out here:
CMDOW Homepage
As for question 2, I unfortunatley can't answer that.
Deuce
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I use the following batch with RSSOWL
z: is my data disk (an encrypted disco from the usb key
t: is my USB key
hoping this can be of some help
copy "z:\dati\tool\rssowl\.rssowl\*.*" "%USERPROFILE%\.rssowl\"
copy "z:\dati\tool\rssowl\.rssowl\archive\*.*" "%USERPROFILE%\.rssowl\archive\"
"t:\tool\JRE\bin\javaw" -Xmx256m -jar "t:\tool\rssowl\rssowl.jar"
copy "%USERPROFILE%\.rssowl\*.*" "z:\dati\tool\rssowl\.rssowl\"
copy "%USERPROFILE%\.rssowl\archive\*.*" "z:\dati\tool\rssowl\.rssowl\archive\"
del "%USERPROFILE%\.rssowl" /S /Q
pause
At the moment I am using the .exe version and I pass it the following parameter
-profile .
This tells it to store the config in the same dir as the RSSOwl directory so I don't have to do all the copying.
This is the equivalent command for the java version:
..\jre1.5.0_06\bin\java -jar -Duser.home=. -Djava.library.path=. .\rssowl.jar
Good advice, I still use the .bat but now use the -Duser.home
Not using the exe version because it doesn't work if you haven't a java JRE installed on the host pc...
Hmmm, I have downloaded cmdow and mave managed to type the commands required.
However the subsequent commands are not run until after rssowl, or specifically java terminates.
So my question really is how do I get a program to run "in the background" in the same was that "runme &" would do in unix?
Thanks
Hi!
To run a program in background you can use:
start "title of Window" "Letter:\My Path\Exefile" parametersor when you don't have spaces in your path it's even simpler:
start Letter:\MyPath\Exefile parametersThe "title of Window"-stuff is only needed when Exefile is "Exefile", because the start command ALWAYS uses the first string in "" as the window title.
Is this what you meant?
Torpedro
OK, I tried this, it could be because I am running Java, it seems to be opening the Java in a cmd window and then the programs GUI is being displayed. Java does not "finish" until I close the application.
I think I am going to have to live with two windows open for all of my Java based apps.
IBM has recently released their free Eclipse DeveloperWorks bundle, which is basically Eclipse 3.1 with the IBM Java 1.5.0 implementation. Obviously this JRE is useless if you insist on using the internal Sun-specific APIs in your applications, but it is compliant with the Java SE 1.5 spec. I found that its performance is slightly less, but it didn't crash on me or anything. Plus, the Eclipse that comes with it appears to be quite portable.
Since this JRE doesn't actually install (it's just a .zip that you extract), it seems pretty portable already. Sun's JRE is silly and insists on relying on the registry and other stuff.
Link pls
Hi jimjams,
I think it is this:
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/eclipse/
Cya Ryushi
Couldn't find any jre on the eclipse site. On the contrary, it says that java is required to run the app ...
Chris
Always on the move - love all portable apps!
Chris,
Eclipse was originally a closed-source program developed by IBM. Later, they released the source code to the Eclipse Foundation, who now maintains it as an open-source app. However, IBM continues work on Eclipse in an open source format, and for some unconscionable reason, they have been producing "DeveloperKits" -- basically, the latest version of Eclipse from www.eclipse.org + the IBM Java 1.5 runtime. Do a search on IBM DeveloperWorks and follow through the site. Create an IBM account and download it.
... take a look at this post!
take a glance at the NSIS Code that this developer created a JAVA launcher. I looks into 4 different places for the javaw.exe file. Which according to him uses no command window. You can look at it on the NSIS page at:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/A_slightly_better_Java_Launcher
Hope it works for you.
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Deuce
Portable Software: Just the beginning.