[cap-talk] Google TechTalk lecture series, HP--Fix Java Web Start

John Carlson john.carlson3 at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jul 13 23:20:40 EDT 2006


Hmmm.  Well.   I tried a lot of stuff, and I think one thing worked,  
but most
of it failed due to a missing "arg" or something like that.  I'm not  
sure I ever
got the caplet launcher working.  Is there a man page for the  
capletLauncher?

This is on MacOSX, running JDK1.5

John

On Jul 12, 2006, at 9:06 PM, Mark S. Miller wrote:

> Stiegler, Marc D wrote:
>> One of the things that I think is still in the E distribution is a
>> "capLauncher", which is the CapDesk powerbox extracted from the  
>> CapDesk
>> system in such a fashion that you can use it to launch a single
>> application. The CapLauncher supplies functionality for E that is  
>> quite
>> similar to the functionality supplied by JWS for java. Building a
>> comparable Joe-E launcher should be straightforward...once you have
>> tamed the libraries for Joe-E, anyway :-)
>
>
> It's e/src/esrc/scripts/capletLauncher.e-awt
>
> The rune launching system already associates the extension .caplet  
> with this
> launcher, so if you have a file such as capEdit.caplet, on windows  
> you can
> double click on it on the windows desktop to cause it to launch  
> under the
> capletLauncher. On *nix or cygwin, if capEdit.caplet is executable  
> and begins
> with a
>
>      #!/usr/bin/env rune
>
> as it should, you can also launch capEdit.caplet by using it as a  
> shell command.
>
> -- 
> Text by me above is hereby placed in the public domain
>
>      Cheers,
>      --MarkM
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