RouteConverter and Mac OS X

[routeconverter]

I did have a look at it but it's really java related

Yes

and really complicated

Yes

and it seems that it packages all dependent jars as such in the bundle whereas your complete jar already contains all these dependendency jars
("jar tf jarfile" is one of the few commands I know). That's also why the java -jar Routeconverter.jar works (apart from the map): it contains everything and is completely portable.

Not really, the .jar is Mac-specific due to the Eclipse SWT dependency. And the .app is an experiment to become better on the Mac.

How do you build your .app's? Is it possible to minimize the files?

$ find .
./RouteConverter.app
./RouteConverter.app/Contents
./RouteConverter.app/Contents/Info.plist
./RouteConverter.app/Contents/MacOS
./RouteConverter.app/Contents/MacOS/RouteConverter
./RouteConverter.app/Contents/Resources
./RouteConverter.app/Contents/Resources/appIcon.icns
./RouteConverter.app/Contents/Resources/AppSettings.plist
./RouteConverter.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj
./RouteConverter.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings
./RouteConverter.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/MainMenu.nib
./RouteConverter.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/MainMenu.nib/keyedobjects.nib
./RouteConverter.app/Contents/Resources/RouteConverter.jar
./RouteConverter.app/Contents/Resources/script
./RouteConverter.icns
./__MACOSX
./__MACOSX/._RouteConverter.icns
./__MACOSX/RouteConverter.app
./__MACOSX/RouteConverter.app/Contents
./__MACOSX/RouteConverter.app/Contents/Resources
./__MACOSX/RouteConverter.app/Contents/Resources/._RouteConverter.jar
./__MACOSX/RouteConverter.app/Contents/Resources/._script
./__MACOSX/RouteConverter.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj
./__MACOSX/RouteConverter.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/._InfoPlist.strings

seems to be a lot.

It starts with an error "Can't open <blah blah> due to unknow file type" (note:translated back to english from dutch) for the source. This is due to the fact that the application somehow tries to open a folder instead of a file.

Some users reported this to me and I'm confused... do you have an idea what can cause this error?

On OSX the file handle can be: "file", "folder", "file+folder". I assume the third is used but I don't know java. Only AppleScript and some basic C.

Good hint. I think I found the bug.

Do you have more options for me to test?

The ones above? Would be great!

I did them all I think. More options? (a 64bit swt perhaps? )

Have a look a the prereleases page :-)