Browse and handle jar files?

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Browse and handle jar files?

I´m going to make a little app to help some morons I know. Pretty much what I want it to do is to make you able to browse files on your HDD and then move them into a .jar file. I know terminal commands for this but is there a way to make it really easy for my friends.
I dunno if this helps but when I do it thought terminal I first unarchive the .jar, change content and then compress it and move it back.

Is this possible?

Mac Book 13 inch, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Mar 1, 2011 5:04 PM

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Answer 1

hubionmac

Level 2

435 points

Mar 1, 2011 11:57 PM in response to Prooz

I still don't think it's good for morons to create .jar files...

set javrfile to quoted form of (POSIX path of (choose file with prompt ".jar file:" of type {"jar"}))

set filestoadd to choose file with prompt "files to add:" with multiple selections allowed

set filestoadd_unixpaths to {}

repeat with filetoadd in filestoadd

set filetoadd to quoted form of (POSIX path of filetoadd)

set filestoadd_unixpaths to filestoadd_unixpaths & filetoadd

end repeat

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "

set filestoadd_unixpaths to filestoadd_unixpaths as text

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""

display dialog (do shell script "jar vuf " & filestoadd_unixpaths)

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Answer 2

Bob Lang1

Level 5

4,090 points

Mar 2, 2011 2:13 AM in response to Prooz

Hi

If you want to do this in Java then it's quite possible.

The package java.io contains classes which you can use to get a list of files in any folder, whilst the package java.util.jar contains a number classes that can be used to create, read and write jar files.

Put these two together and it sounds like you've got the basics of your application.

Bob

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