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#Install4j jre bundle mac

#Install4j jre bundle mac

So on Windows you can create a Mac installer and on Mac you can create a Windows installer. It has the nice ability to be able to generate installers for all platforms from all platforms. It is commercial but simple to use and polished. The one I used is Install4J from ej-technologies.

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There are many commercial and free options for this. When a user opens your DMG they should see something like this:įor windows you need to use a installer maker tool. Then you have your final image ready to ship. Next you can open your DMG back up in Disk Utility and choose “Convert” then save a copy as a compressed format. Then don’t close the window, just eject the disk using another finder window. Last thing then is to size the window to fit your background image and position the window in the center of the screen. Otherwise it will create a link to it in its absolute location on your machine and will not show on other peoples computers. One thing I did learn by mistake is you should put your background image inside your application bundle on the disk image then choose it from there in the view settings dialog. Then for a nicer experience it is recommended that you give the disk window a background picture and make it icon view with the tool bar and side bar turned off. You can then copy your application bundle into it and also create a alias(mac form of linked file) to the applications folder so that your user has a convenient place to drag your application to. It will create your disk image and open it in finder as a new disk for you. So launch Disk Utility and click the “New Image” button, give it a name and keep the standard options. So to create a DMG I used the standard Mac tool that comes with every Mac called Disk Utility.

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Although a zip is good enough, a DMG gives you the chance to give your users a nicer experience which is what it is all about on the Mac. Also it lets you compress it so that it is smaller to download. Now that you have your Application Bundle you need to create a zip of DMG so that it can be stored and transmitted by non-macs and over the internet as a single archive. Make DMG Image containing your Application Bundle Then click “Create Application…” choose a name and you are done. Other than adding your files, all you need to do is drag and drop in your icon file and specify the main class. You can right click and go “Show Package Contents” to see what is inside any application.

On Mac applications are just special kinds of folders that act like a single file. There are two steps to this process: Make Mac Application Bundleįor Java 1.6 Apple provides a tool for you called Jar Bundler that takes all your jar files and the jar and jnilib files from JavaFX and packages them into a single Application Bundle.

#Install4j jre bundle for mac

So this is what I created for our F圎xperience Tools application so it feels native for Mac users.

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Inside of it it contains the Application and a link to the Applications folder so all you have to do to install is Drag and drop. On Mac most applications are shipped as a DMG which is a vertical disk image. It is called Icon Composer and will take all your images and create both the Mac and Windows icon files for you. Apple is very nice in providing a great tool for this in their free XCode tools suite. These are special icon file formats that take all the sizes and combine them into a single file. Once you have all the PNG files with transparency the next stage is to create a. As the icons gets smaller you will need to tweak/simplify the design so that you can still make out what it is showing when only having a few pixels. You need to design a icon for application and make it in a number of different sizes and formats. And when 1.7 is generally available I would recommend packing it in your application. For 1.6 it should be auto installed for you when needed and you can not redistribute it your self.

For Mac its a little more complicated at the moment. For Windows it is a no brainer, just include it. This is exactly the same as including the JavaFX runtime and has all the same reasons for wanting to do it. Also if you want to have an exact version that you have done all your testing on then this is the only way to guarantee it. I would recommend that you do as you do not want your end users to have to think about finding and installing the appropriate version of JavaFX. So I was learning as I went but here is what I did: Well this may not be the best way as I have not done this before for Mac and not for Windows for 6 years. There have been a bunch of questions about how I packaged the F圎xperience Tools app.