[kepler-dev] renaming Loader and test installers

[Chad Berkley]

Sweet!  Thanks Matt.  I didn't know that was possible from java.

chad


Matt Jones wrote:
> Hi Chad,
> 
> In at least older versions of java for Mac OS X you could use:
> 
> System.setProperty("apple.laf.useScreenMenuBar", "true");
> System.setProperty("com.apple.mrj.application.apple.menu.about.name", "Kepler");
> 
> to change how the menus work.  Maybe they changed it again, but this
> used to work.
> 
> There's more info on making things more compatible with MacOS guidelines here:
> http://www.devdaily.com/blog/post/jfc-swing/making-java-swing-app-look-like-mac-app/
> And for Java 1.3.x (including info about the 'About Kepler...' menu:
> http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/JavaLP/JavaToMac/
> 
> Matt
> 
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Chad Berkley <berkley at nceas.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think we've talked about this before, but I think we need to re-name
>> org.kepler.core.loader.Loader to something like
>> org.kepler.core.loader.Kepler.  The problem I'm currently seeing is that
>> when we execute Kepler on the mac, the class name shows up in the menu bar
>> as the application that is being run.  I haven't found anyway around that,
>> so I think it would look better to have org.kepler.core.loader.Kepler (or
>> even, maybe take it out of the package, if that's possible, so that it's
>> just 'Kepler' or maybe 'org.kepler.Kepler').
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Also, I've uploaded an installer for Windows and an installer for OSX to
>> http://dist.kepler-project.org/dist/Kepler-1.0Dev  Please give them a try
>> and let me know if you find any problems.  They both include R in the
>> installation.  If you already have R, just uncheck the R installation.  Note
>> that I have not figured a non-hackish way to alter the path to put R on the
>> path (Ben, is there a way we can do this so R doesn't have to be on the
>> path?), so if you do install R and want the R workflows to work,  you'll
>> need to add R/bin to your path manually.  I'm hoping to figure that one out
>> soon.  If you come across what you think is a bug, please try the same
>> operation running Kepler from your local SVN directory first.  If the bug
>> happens in the installed version and the SVN version, it is not an installer
>> bug.  If you do find something that does work in SVN but not in the
>> installed version, please create a new bug for it and make the bug block on
>> bug 3949 so I can track them easier.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> chad
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