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My first Java game, BlackJack
Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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Well, here's what I have learned how to do after a semester long class in Java :

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Executable jar file of BlackJack game Here's an updated, working version

It's really simple, but I thought I would share in case anyone wanted to try it.

kazzmir
Member #1,786
December 2001
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I have jdk 1.6 so I can't run your jar because you compiled it with a jdk7 compiler. Can you add add -target 1.6 to your compile line and try again?

 $ java -jar BlackJack.jar 
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: BlackJack : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
 $ java -version 
java version "1.6.0_22"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.10.6) (6b22-1.10.6-0ubuntu1)
OpenJDK Server VM (build 20.0-b11, mixed mode)

Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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c:\Office\Education\Kirkwood\Spring2012\CompSci\Javacode\Homework4>javac -target 1.6 BlackJack.java
javac: target release 1.6 conflicts with default source release 1.7

c:\Office\Education\Kirkwood\Spring2012\CompSci\Javacode\Homework4>java -version
java version "1.7.0_02"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_02-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 22.0-b10, mixed mode, sharing)

Is there some jar to exe program out there I can use instead?

kazzmir
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December 2001
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Use -source 1.6 too.

I don't know of any working jar to exe programs..

Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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kazzmir
Member #1,786
December 2001
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Argh, looks like you are using a 1.7 only method.

$ java -jar BlackJack\ \(1\).jar 
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.awt.Container.revalidate()V
        at BlackJack.<init>(BlackJack.java:219)
        at BlackJack.main(BlackJack.java:256)

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/awt/Component.html#revalidate()

Do you suppose you can avoid that method?

Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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kazzmir
Member #1,786
December 2001
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The game works now but the card faces don't show up.

Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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Hmm... They're probably just failing to load from the jar file. Do I need to have something about the class path in the manifest file when I make the jar?

They're in a folder called cards80x120, and that's where they're loaded from in the program.

Here's the jar creation line I use :

jar cvfm BlackJack.jar BlackJack.mf .class cards80x120/*.*

kazzmir
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December 2001
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Well did you try it yourself? Try running the jar from a directory other than the one where 'cards80x120' is available.

Are you using getClass().getResource() to get the files from the jar?

Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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I did try it myself, and it doesn't work for me either, but I didn't know how to fix it.

What does getClass().getResource() give you? The directory where the class file is being run from? Is getClass a method of the Object class? I need to look it up quick...

Edit
What name do I pass to getResource(String)?

kazzmir
Member #1,786
December 2001
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Its a way to get a URL from the jvm. Possibly a shorter path is to make a direct call to ClassLoader.getSystemResource(). You should be able to pass the resulting URL to the image loading classes.

Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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kazzmir
Member #1,786
December 2001
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Yea, give the path of the file as it exists inside the jar. So if you have

$ unzip -l foo.jar
x.class
peanut.jpg

Then pass "peanut.jpg" as the path.

Edgar Reynaldo
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May 2007
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kazzmir
Member #1,786
December 2001
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Works great now, good job!

Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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Arthur Kalliokoski
Second in Command
February 2005
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They all watch too much MSNBC... they get ideas.

Edgar Reynaldo
Major Reynaldo
May 2007
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