Hi, Pieter -- Thank you! Will certainly check this out...
> at least that is how the theory goes. Oh, how many times I have uttered this very phrase to me statistics students... -- Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pieter van den Hombergh" <pieter.van.den.hombe...@gmail.com> To: "COlsen" <col...@mchsi.com> Cc: "users" <users@netbeans.apache.org> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2021 9:01:17 AM Subject: Re: Netbeans development on the Mac Hi Chris, I had some success with a deployable toy project using link and package. I have created a github repo for this small demo project at https://github.com/homberghp/fxsurveyor It is derived from a former student exercise. Details to the zip file: It is a multimodule maven file, and consist of two submodules: a javafx component called fxtriangulate and a GUI application using the javafx component called surveyor. I use linux, but as far as the javafx theory goes, you should be able to adapt it to your mac osx needs using the information in https://codetinkering.com/how-to-use-jpackage-tool-cli-for-macos-apps/ I followed (for linux) the guidelines on https://dev.to/cherrychain/javafx-jlink-and-jpackage-h9 To play with it, use the following steps. 1. Download (clone) the project. 2. in the resulting directory do 'mvn compile' 3. go to the app dir with 'cd surveyor' 4 mvn -P fx javafx:jlink to produce a linked version. which results in a zip file that can be deployed. At this stage you should be able to run the run.sh command in the surveyor dir. 5 mvn -P fx jpackage:package Results in a debian package (for the kind of linux I run on). After you have applied the tweaks described in https://codetinkering.com/how-to-use-jpackage-tool-cli-for-macos-apps/ it should result in a dmg file for your mac osx, at least that is how the theory goes. Success. On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 4:06 PM Chris Olsen <col...@mchsi.com> wrote: > Hello, Everyone -- > > I am a seriously amateur JavaFX programmer and have written a freeware > statistical package for high school teachers of Advanced Placement > Statistics. I have no trouble packaging my program for the PC, but > commonly teachers run afoul of the Mac Gatekeeper when trying to install > the program. (They are not typically comfortable with doing anything on > the terminal command line.) > > I am willing (grumble, grumble) to pony up the $99/year to support my > program in the App Store, but not willing to desert Netbeans. (Old dog, new > tricks.) > The U.S. education system being what it is, teachers have Macs varying in > age from long in the tooth to the new Macs with the M1 chip. So I have two > questions: > > 1. How much of a headache would it be to develop (actually translate) > and package for a variety of Mac OSs? > > 2. What are good sources (books, URLs, whatever) where I can learn more > about how to do this? > > Thanks in advance! > > -- Chris > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org > > For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists > > -- Pieter Van den Hombergh. No software documentation is complete with out it's source code. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
