AppBundler: wrong working directory (original) (raw)

Tobias Bley tobi at ultramixer.com
Wed Feb 29 00:01:06 PST 2012

Hi Greg,

thanks for your ultra fast response :)

I think it's important to have the same behavior between JDK6 and JDK7 so that there is no need to rewrite my application.

Currently if I want to load a resource from the "root" of my app I can call simply: new File("./myresource.png")

The current JavaAppLauncher from Apple (JDK6) provides the possibility to set the working directory in the plist-file. That's a good solution. So in my opinion you should extend the ant task in this direction...

Best regards, Tobi

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Am 28.02.2012 um 18:30 schrieb Greg Brown <greg.x.brown at oracle.com>:

Hi Tobi,

You are correct - the Ant bundler doesn't currently set the working directory. I have proposed modifying the launcher app to set the working directory to the bundle root: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/macosx-port-dev/2012-February/003289.html However, I'm not sure that would have any effect on the behavior you are seeing. The launcher is now calling JLILaunch() to start the JVM rather than calling into JNI directly. JLILaunch() may be setting the working directory to the user's home directory (which may be intentional - I'm not sure yet). What impact does this have on your app? Is it something you could work around if it turns out that user.home is the correct default? G On Feb 28, 2012, at 11:42 AM, Tobias Bley wrote:

Hi,

When I create an *.app with the new AppBundler ant task I don't get the right working directory. File workingDirectory = new File(".").getAbsolutePath(); => /Users/

When I try this with Apples JavaAppLauncher with JDK6 I get => /Contents/Resources/ I suppose the problem is that the AppBundler ant task does not set the working directory into the app-bundle... Any suggestions? Best regards, Tobi

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