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.Jar file problems with a mac [message #557765]

Wed, 08 September 2010 18:59

Feesdt

Messages: 2
Registered: September 2010

Junior Member

Hi everyone,

So I'm stuck here while I can't seem to get the .jar files working. I'm running leopard OSX 10.5.8

I read that Mac OSX comes with JRE. I checked the software update and everything appears to be fine. there's no new updates that need to be downloaded obviously since nothing is showing up.

Now in the course there's the manual telling us we're supposed to be importing our first assignment the way it is explained. I do exactly that and in Ecliplse's package explorer I get the contents of my project folder (named Assignment-1) looking like this.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/DAF6y-lLpvnrHOFvJ79DNcT KamMfMyQXrGdPBlXqjss?feat=directlink

Now, the contents of the assignment-1 folder the way it looks in the manual is this. I made a little screenshot from the pdf of the manual:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/qusNYJW5Nb7NTafNWt5A0MT KamMfMyQXrGdPBlXqjss?feat=directlink

So the contents of the Assignment-1 folder is supposed to have "JRE library" folder in it as wel as Karel.jar.

I checked in the finder to see if my karel.jar would be missing but no.
here's a screenshot from the contents of the Assignment-1 folder the way it is in the Finder of my mac.

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/wwSjoaur25rpXbNwVwxnj8TKamMfMyQXrGdPBlXqjss?feat=directlink

Any ideas? many thanks in advance!

Kevin

[Updated on: Thu, 09 September 2010 09:41]

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Re: .Jar file problems with a mac [message #558742 is a reply to message #557765]

Tue, 14 September 2010 09:34

Feesdt

Messages: 2
Registered: September 2010

Junior Member

Hi,

I was wondering if my question is not clear or if it's a tough question to begin with?

I'm getting quite frustrated with trying to find the solution.

cheers,

Kevin

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Re: .Jar file problems with a mac [message #558779 is a reply to message #558742]

Tue, 14 September 2010 12:08

Russell Bateman

Messages: 3798
Registered: July 2009
Location: Provo, Utah, USA

Senior Member

On 2010.09.14 3:34, Feesdt wrote:
> Hi,
> I was wondering if my question is not clear or if it's a tough question
> to begin with?
>
> I'm getting quite frustrated with trying to find the solution.
>
> cheers,
> Kevin

No, your question isn't clear to me, but I will say that, while you can
run Eclipse on the JRE that comes already installed, it's not advisable.
Download a proper Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) and use that instead.
Look on java.sun.com for downloads.

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