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gabon
Read local files and standalone player
Sep 13th, 2005, 9:43am  
I'm doing an applet that will run only locally, I'm able to load strings if I insert an absolut path "c:\...." is there a way to load files using a relative one?
Thanks to the code I found in the forum I'm able to run the applet double clicking the jar or the .bat, but of course on the computer there should be installed jre, is there any way to make it play also if the computer doesn't have the jvm? Espacially considering that I'm using opengl? I tried using the appletviewer.exe from command line, for instance, but wired things happened.
Does anyone know tricks about it?

Many thanks, chr
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fry
Re: Read local files and standalone player
Reply #1 - Sep 13th, 2005, 4:59pm  
use loadStrings(), which will pull them from the .jar file or a local directory with a relative path.
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gabon
Re: Read local files and standalone player
Reply #2 - Sep 13th, 2005, 8:59pm  
that rocks! it works perfectly on the server. But haven't I asked you already the same question while doing my flickr stuff? Smiley
Thanks a lot man anyway, any clue for the standalone "projector"?

cya, chr
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fry
Re: Read local files and standalone player
Reply #3 - Sep 14th, 2005, 4:47am  
nah, in the future the standalone issue will be solved the same way as processing itself is bundled, that you'll be able to bundle the jvm along with it by having a subfolder called "java" that contains the runtime.

but in general, this is one of the annoyances of java, that the runtime keeps getting larger and more poorly supported by operating systems (at least on windows, macos has been doing better...)
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gabon
Re: Read local files and standalone player
Reply #4 - Sep 14th, 2005, 9:50am  
Ok, I can imagine the hassle.
Thanks a lot for the info.

Cya, chr
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