Sunitha Kambhampati wrote: > Daniel John Debrunner wrote: > < snip - lots of great stuff> > >> Can these jars be executed directly, I thought on windows one could >> double-click a jar file and have it run right away, doesn't seem to >> happen on my machine though? >> >> >> > I found this on http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jar/jarGuide.html > > "On Microsoft Windows systems, the Java 2 Runtime Environment's > installation program will register a default association for Jar files > so that double-clicking a Jar file on the desktop will automatically run > it with javaw -jar. Dependent extensions bundled with the application > will also be loaded automatically. This feature makes the end-user > runtime environment easier to use on Microsoft Windows systems"
Hmmm, javaw is going to be a problem for ij because I think it starts with no system in/out or a console. I did try that with my ij.jar and it just hung and could not be killed with ^C Dan.
