RouteConverter and Mac OS X

[hvdwolf]

Did you try my Java6Check jar on your machine?

Yes, I did. But as mentioned I'm now on Snow Leopard and I don't have Java 1.5 anymore. So it works for me.

Sorry, I wasn't precise: did you integrate the Java6Check into your shell script? I'm planning to spend some time to get exactly your ZIP layout since a lot of Mac OS X users ask me how to use RouteConverter and I'm tired of explaining the -XStartOnFirstThread stuff

Yes, I already did that. I built a mini-Applescript application that shows a graphical popup in case the java version is too low: see attached image.
the script itself is:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
BASEDIR=`dirname $0`
if `exec java -jar $BASEDIR/Java6Check.jar`; then
   # No error, java version >= 1.6.0_14
   echo "java version >= 1.6.0_14"
   exec java -XstartOnFirstThread -jar $BASEDIR/RouteConverterPrereleaseMac64.jar
else
   # java version < 1.6.0_14
   echo "java version < 1.6.0_14"
   open error_message.app
   exit 1
fi

the echo commands are not really neccessary but if a user whould open the application from the command line like "open RouteConverter64.app" it would also echo to terminal.
Note: I used the "RouteConverterPrereleaseMac64.jar" but that can be replaced off course. Both in the script and the application.

The structure of the Application now is (I removed unnecessary listing info):

Code:

ls -lR RouteConverter64.app
RouteConverter64.app/Contents:
       Info.plist
       MacOS
       Resources

RouteConverter64.app/Contents/MacOS:
        Java6Check.jar
        RouteConverterPrereleaseMac64.jar
        error_message.app
        routeconverter

RouteConverter64.app/Contents/Resources:
       RouteConverter.icns

1 - I wrote this simple applescript application (10 minutes work), but I don't know whether your application does shows a (graphical) error message of it's own as I can't test that right now. Does it?
If it does we can remove my error_message.app, which I really like to do. It's not nice to mix up a real Java application with an applescript application. To me it doesn't feel right.
If your Java6Check.jar shows it's own graphical message the script could change to:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
BASEDIR=`dirname $0`
if `exec java -jar $BASEDIR/Java6Check.jar`; then
   # No error, java version >= 1.6.0_14
   echo "java version >= 1.6.0_14"
   exec java -XstartOnFirstThread -jar $BASEDIR/RouteConverterPrereleaseMac64.jar
else
   # java version < 1.6.0_14
   echo "java version < 1.6.0_14"
   exit 1
fi

2 - I did not make a patch or something like that yet. It's easy to do but I like to know how you think about it, especially in case your jar show it's own message already.
3 - Just in case I added the error_message.app in a zip and the message itself