Hi

I've had enough of webstart, it claims things have gone fine, but my exception reporting code is reporting missing lwjgl dlls. I've had a play and I can create exes with launch4j, executable jar installers with izpack, mac os bundles. What I was wondering, is what other people have found users do and don't like?

Do installers have to install shortcuts on all platforms?, I've hit an issue where if I try and lauch4j up a windows exe of a izpack installer it won't install the shortcuts, which is more important, an exe and no shortcut v.s. an executable jar with a shortcut created?. The exe option means java installation has been checked for me.

After ideas and a discussion

Cheers

Endolf

I kinda like the way I'm doing it now but I'm going to rip out a chunk of it and replace it with getdown or some unholy hybrid concocted from the LWJGL applet loader, because I'm basically sick of the whole upload / build process etc.

Cas

That's what I've currently replaced webstart with, but that required 5 or so files to be placed somewhere. I decided that most windows users can't cope with a zip, so was wondering what options there are to get those 5 files in place before getdown kicks in. Also, Riven was saying that getdown just stopped in the middle of some files when it was downloading. No idea why as it's worked for everyone else.

Thanks for the input so far.

Endolf