Build an OS X application #50
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This uses the jarbundler plugin (https://github.com/UltraMixer/JarBundler) and universalJavaApplicationStub (https://github.com/tofi86/universalJavaApplicationStub) to generate and build an OS X application. The application handles dropping of files onto it, as well as a more "OS X-like" menu bar, antialiasing, high resolution, etc. The application is zipped up into a single "Luyten-OSX.zip" archive for easier distribution (since OS X .apps are actually directories)
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I'm not all entirely familiar in the world of OSX, however how much does https://github.com/federkasten/appbundle-maven-plugin differ from this plugin, would it be better to embed the jvm, same as launch4j.
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As for embedding the JVM, that is possible (even with the jarbundler plugin) - however, I have avoided doing that so far, because at that point, it would require being built on an OS X system. As it currently is, you should be able to build the OS X packages even from a Windows or Linux system (an OS X app is just a certain directory structure layout).
The main reason that I used the jarbundler task is because of my familiarity with it (I've never used appbundle-maven-plugin). It is also the "recommended" way to bundle an application by the universalJavaApplicationStub developer. Is there a reason you'd prefer to use the appbundle-maven-plugin?
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Another question - when I was creating the OS X icon file (.icns), I just used the Luyten.png file that was in the repo. However, the .icns file contains a bundle of images at different resolutions - 512, 256, 128, 32, and 16. I just scaled the image up and down to the correct sizes - but it's pretty blurry at 512. Does there happen to exist a larger copy of the icon to use (or a vector format of it)? It's not a big deal - but I thought I'd create the icon the "right" way if you have those resources. |
…ion instead of maintaining a copy
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If you would prefer me to roll up all these commits into one, I can do so as well. I don't know which you prefer on this project (some projects I have contributed to ask to squash all commits into a single one for PRs, others like to have the commit history). |
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The icon was a public domain freebie that I found while searching. If there are any recommendations for higher resolution version I would be more than happy to accommodate. I'm not picky about the repo setup, thank you for your contributions. |
This uses the jarbundler plugin (https://github.com/UltraMixer/JarBundler) and universalJavaApplicationStub (https://github.com/tofi86/universalJavaApplicationStub) to generate and build an OS X application. The application handles dropping of files onto it, as well as a more "OS X-like" menu bar, antialiasing, high resolution, etc.