Re: Running AppleCommander GUI?

[Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com>]

On 05/26/2011 12:35 PM, schmidtd wrote:

> There's a reason Rob bundled AppleCommander into an executable on
> Windows and an app on Mac.

That's obviously a sound approach under the circumstances.

> And there's a reason why I hide the Java
> command line of ADTPro behind a script for Unix-alikes.  It's
> complicated.

Why on earth does it need to BE so complex?  I cannot think of any other 
language runtime environment that's even in the same order-of-magnitude.  And, 
for the record, I had no idea that I could run AC from ADTPro.  I thought it 
was intended for interchange of data with an A2 over serial link, not a 
general file-manipulation tool.  Since I use Appletalk for data transfer, I've 
never had a need for ADT and thus have never laid eyes on it in action.

> First, give full qualification to the jars you need.  The classpath,
> or -cp command line switch will do that for you:
>
> -cp /usr/lib/java/swt-gtk-3.5.1.jar:/wherever/AppleCommander-1.3.5.jar
>
> But then you also need to pull the main class out of the manifest;
> that is: com.webcodepro.applecommander.ui.AppleCommander
>
> Then, there are some native libraries for SWT too, aren't there?
> There are on Windows and Mac.  For those, you need to give the -
> Djava.library.path= command line switch, and point to those, too.
>
> So I can get you as far as that - there's still the issue of 64-bit
> SWT native libraries, which I trust you know where are.  A full
> invocation might look like this:
>
> java -Djava.library.path=/path/to/SWT/jnilibs -cp /usr/lib/java/swt-
> gtk-3.5.1.jar:/wherever/AppleCommander-1.3.5.jar
> com.webcodepro.applecommander.ui.AppleCommander -swt
>
> (I'm unsure if the -swt switch is passed in - or if Java will consume
> it.)

Worked perfectly, thanks.  Despite having spent over an hour poking around on 
Google, I saw nothing that even hinted in that direction.

For reference, this was the shell wrapper required (assumes the AC jar in the 
current directory and a Ubuntu system of recent vintage):

#!/bin/bash

java \
    -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni \
    -cp /usr/lib/java/swt-gtk-3.5.1.jar:AppleCommander-1.3.5.jar \
    com.webcodepro.applecommander.ui.AppleCommander \
    -swt