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Autodidact
Quick JSmooth Question
Apr 2nd, 2010, 1:33pm  
JSmooth seems to want to use just one single jar file, but the applet uses three - what do i do?

e.g. myApp.jar, core.jar, opengl.jar
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PhiLho 
Re: Quick JSmooth Question
Reply #1 - Apr 2nd, 2010, 2:08pm  
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what do i do?

Mmm... Just use the Export to Application feature?

What improvements do you expect from JSmooth over this feature?

OK, a possible solution: just unzip the three jars to the same folder, and zip the result back to a jar.
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Autodidact
Re: Quick JSmooth Question
Reply #2 - Apr 2nd, 2010, 3:09pm  
What do you use to work with jar files - which can also make jar files?  Tried winzip and winrar   Sorry, me newbie

I guess I was hoping to end up with a nice little single-file exe.   So I don't have to expain to people "Extract the folder, yeah, yeah, right click it, yeah, choose 'extract,' yeah, now in the folder, yeah - the one that says "myApp.exe" - yeah  ok but you need the other things in the folder so - - ok,  so put it back --  now drag THE WHOLE FOLDER -- ok to your "Program Files"   etc etc.    
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PhiLho 
Re: Quick JSmooth Question
Reply #3 - Apr 2nd, 2010, 3:17pm  
Yes, I finally guessed that (no additional folder), that's why I gave an answer... Smiley

I don't use paywares like WinZip or WinRAR, I am more than happy with the free, fast and nice 7-Zip. It gladly opens any archive, whatever its extension.
If you prefer to stick to your tools, just rename the .jar to .zip, that's what they are actually...
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Autodidact
Re: Quick JSmooth Question
Reply #4 - Apr 2nd, 2010, 11:17pm  
Aha! I did not know that! ty Smiley

(jar == zip? why did... never mind...) Smiley
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PhiLho 
Re: Quick JSmooth Question
Reply #5 - Apr 3rd, 2010, 2:41am  
To answer your unfinished question, you have today lot of file formats which are just zip files, as it is a convenient way to have data grouped together (in nested folders), under a recognizable extension ("this is not a generic zip, it is a zip whose content I can parse") and stored in a compact way.

I can mention the Open Office files (.odt, .ods...), the new MS Office documents (.docx, .xlsx) -- these are XML files (often verbose, but compress well), the .xpi files of Firefox/Thunderbird extensions, the .svgz format (compressed SVG files) and so on.
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