----- Original Message ----- From: Julie Ann Miyuki Sakuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, August 24, 2006 7:13 am Subject: HackyInstaller Jarfile To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hello Philip, > Aaron created a Jira issue recently about not being about to double- > click his hackyInstaller.jar (apparently this is very upsetting to > him) using Windows. I tried it on OSX and usually it works, but > this time I got an error telling me to see the console for error > messages. We have never added any special code to get this > functionality to work. I was wondering if there have been any > changes during the build process on HackyDev that may have affected > how the jarfiles are built. I checked out a fresh copy of > everything from SVN last night and I built Hackystat with a > freshStart and tried out the jarfile created from my local build. > The hackyInstaller.jar I created locally appears to work just fine > with the double-click. The jar from the public server isn't broken > though, it can still work normally when java -jar > hackyInstaller.jar is done on the command line. > > While the double-click issue doesn't bother me I thought I'd just > ask. It could just be some random small thing that happened during > the build of Hackystat on the public server that is causing the > jarfile to not respond to a double-click. > > Thanks, > Julie Ann Sakuda > Hi Julie, The one immediate thing I can think of is that we've moved to Java 5. I did some googling and got a couple of hints: (1) If you're using Win XP (and maybe some earlier versions), try this: <b>Start -> My Computer -> Tools -> Folder Options... -> File Types</b>. There will be a list of extensions, so go to JAR. If it opens with javaw, click Change and select "Java(TM) 2 Platform Standard Edition binary", and all should be well. I had the same problem, but this fixed it. (2) JDK 1.5.0_01 and _02 have a bug related to this. Update to a later release of 1.5.0. (3) Installing WinRaR 'steals' the file association for jar files. Hope this helps you (and Aaron). Anyone else have ideas? Cheers, Philip
