Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Knute Johnson Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Looking for examples of packaged JavaFx apps to .exe I can download and try? Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 19:58:50 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 03:58:40 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="aba33539224e5c782fe0c4053f7756fd"; logging-data="15570"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18vCzhjC2HR4X6T3U49H3A7" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:k/BI4B+oJrSjkzDgbNV6CBbojzU= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:27383 On 1/21/2014 17:09, steve.nospamm@gmail.com wrote: > I've read here > http://fxexperience.com/2012/03/packaging-javafx-applications-as-native/ > > And here > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10680679/how-to-make-a-executable-file-of-java-fx-2-0-project/10689309#10689309 > > That one now is able to package Java+JavaFX to a complete self > contained app as an .exe file or installer file, and download this > and install on windows, without the user having to necessarily > install Java itself on the machine before hand and that app will > install its own Java in its own installation directly and not in the > system. > > i.e. the .exe or the installer comes with everything in it (jre, > java-fx, etccc). The user does not even have to know the app is build > using Java. > > This sounds great. But I am having hard time finding an example the > net that I can download and try. All what I find are instructions on > how to do the packaging. I am sure someone has already made such apps > using JavaFX to download and install. > > Any one knows of such apps or sites I can download some such javaFX > apps to try on windows? Any app will do. I just wanted to see how it > works and see how JavaFX runs installed from an .exe > > Thank you, Steve > I wrote a little Java program that I wanted computer illiterates to be able to run. So I wrote a C loader program that called javaw and distributed the program with the JRE image I copied from my computer. That works fine and is pretty easy to do. The install is just copying one folder and creating a shortcut to the C loader. A JavaFX program should work the same. -- Knute Johnson