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davbol

println() from application?
Jun 16^th, 2010, 4:57pm

Is it possible to display println() output from an exported application if called from a command-line? For example:
Quote:

println("Hello World!");
exit();

..when the exported executable is run from the command-line (Windows) there is no output. I think it's due to the ShellExecuteEx() call inside the launcher.exe - as the explorer shell wouldn't have a "stdout pipe".

Is there perhaps an alternate method of launching the jars in the lib folder that might retain println() output? (i've been unsuccessful so far in my 'java -jar' hacking to launch them, keep getting class not found problems that it seems i shouldn't be getting, but probably i'm just specifying something wrong, classpath, etc?)

tia

PhiLho

Re: println() from application?
Reply #1 - Jun 17^th, 2010, 1:59am

The Windows exe is probably generated in GUI mode (to avoid the usual ugly CMD window we get when we run lot of Java applications). These GUI applications have no stdout.
The usual workaround is to make a kind of logger (or to use a real one), writing output to a file (I shown one I made to test an e-mail application which was problematic when exported).

Lonnen YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 14	Re: println() from application? Reply #2 - Jun 17^th, 2010, 6:53am You could also try System.err.println()

davbol

Re: println() from application?
Reply #3 - Jun 17^th, 2010, 1:46pm

Thanks both for your suggestions, but I finally got it figured out. I don't know if it's something wrong on my pc or what, but using a simple . for classpath wasn't expanding. Changed it to ./* and all is working.

Now just takes "java NameOfSketch" to run from the /lib folder. (as it should)

fwiw, using -cp (or -classpath) ./* on command line didn't work, but setting same as env var does, so i'm happy enough, i think my system is just a bit wonky

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