Re: [platform-swt-dev] How to launch a Carbon app without any wrappers?

[Ulf Holm Nielsen <doktor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

i think someone on the apple java list talked about an ant task for 
building app

and yep..

http://www.neo.com/projects/osxize/osxize.html

Ulf Holm Nielsen

On onsdag, juni 5, 2002, at 02:07 , Mike Wilson wrote:

> If you could drive MRJAppBuilder from the command line (or something 
> equivalent to that), you could just use an Ant task to automate driving 
> it.
>
> Unfortunately, this would mean that Eclipse would not be a *standalone* 
> development environment, because you would still need to have 
> MRJAppBuilder available.
>
> Is there anybody from Apple reading this list who could help us out 
> with the answer? Or perhaps someone who knows someone who...
>
> McQ.
>
> On Wednesday, June 5, 2002, at 05:44 AM, Andre Weinand wrote:
>
> > Hi Björn,
> >
> > > There is an application in Developer/Applications called
> > > MRJAppBuilder. Maybe that's what you are looking for. It creates
> > > application bundles out of java classes/jars. You can also include
> > > other jars. MRJAppBuilder takes care of your classpath.
> >
> > Yes I know, but MRJAppBuilder is exactly what I want to avoid.
> >
> > On any Java platform I can launch a Java application from the command 
> > line with
> > 	"java <name_of_class_with_main>".
> > This even works on MacOS X if the Java application happens to use AWT.
> >
> > However if the application uses SWT (which at least conceptionally is
> > identical to AWT), I can start the app but I cannot activate its top
> > level windows. As a consequence I don't get a menubar. And there is
> > no icon in the Dock.
> >
> > If I start the application by using MRJAppBuilder everything works 
> > fine.
> >
> > So I'm looking for the magic that MRJAppBuilder is using in order to
> > start a java application that behaves like a normal Mac application
> > with GUI.
> >
> > But thanks for your help anyway.
> >
> > --andre
> >
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