[Coco] OSX hacker needed

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

did you see this ?

http://dev.alopix.net/2012/10/start-java-virtual-machine-on-os-x-via.html




On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello CoCoNuts,
>
> Would any Mac/OSX types be willing to take on a (hopefully) minor
> project that needs someone with a bit of OSX programming expertise?
>
> DriveWire 4 has a nice .exe launcher for Windows with a proper icon,
> etc.  You can also just double click on the .jar file to start DW in
> Windows.
>
> In Linux, you can double click the .jar file or run the included .sh
> script, which depending on the gui and file manager one is using often
> looks fairly obviously like the thing the user should do.
>
> However, on the Mac things are not great.  Double clicking on the .jar
> doesn't work.  I created a .command file that sort of works, but it
> leaves an unneeded Terminal.app window around and it doesn't look like
> something Mac folks are used to seeing, no icon or any visual clues.
>
> Can anybody create some binary that will look like "The Right Thing To
> Do" with a proper icon that simply launches the JVM with some hard
> coded arguments?  I have googled around and not found such a thing.
> On Windoze I just use "launch4j" and it creates the nice .exe for me,
> but Mac doesn't seem to have an equivalent.
>
> Thanks for any help or guidance
> -Aaron
>
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