Re: [ jEdit-users ] Pinning jEdit Properly to Windows 7 taskbar

[John S. <leg...@gm...>]

Thanks.  However, I don't think it's a jEdit server issue (I'm pretty
confident I disabled the server from automatically starting), as it's a Java
issue.  I see the same behaviour for other Java apps.

Where/how can I grab the source code for jedit.exe?  I would like to play
around with it to see if I can eliminate this issue.

On 23 March 2011 17:50, Vampire <Va...@je...> wrote:

>  Hi John,
>
> jedit.exe is a Launch4J generated executable that forks a new process in
> which it starts javaw.exe.
> The C code looks more or less like:
>
> CreateProcess(NULL, cmdline, NULL, NULL, TRUE, priority, NULL, NULL, &si,
> &pi))
> WaitForSingleObject(pi.hProcess, INFINITE);
> GetExitCodeProcess(pi.hProcess, &dwExitCode);
> CloseHandle(pi.hThread);
> CloseHandle(pi.hProcess);
> return dwExitCode;
>
> Better would be a call via JNI for which also a patch for Launch4J exists
> but it is not accepted and rather outdated now.
>
> But I don't think this has any relevance to your "problem".
>
> If you have chosen "Start jEdit Server automatically on system startup" on
> installation time, then if you startup Windows, jEdit is also started but
> without GUI and is running in the background, ready to quickly show the GUI
> if you need it to. I guess you have chosen this and you can verify this by
> looking in the last line of the About... dialog where it then says
> "background mode". If this is the case as I suppose, then running jEdit
> again will actually connect to the running jEdit instance and tell it what
> you want to do instead of starting jEdit again. Because of this I guess you
> have the described behaviour. You could disable the automatic startup of the
> jEdit server on system startup to change this behaviour, but then you have
> to wait longer for jEdit to start up as it has to start completely and not
> show only the GUI. For temporary tryout of the different behaviour you can
> also quit jEdit completely. If you use the upper right X to close the jEdit
> windows, you only close the GUI if jEdit is running in background mode and
> the jEdit server stays running. If you choose Quit from the File menu, then
> jEdit is completely quit and I guess the behaviour of your pinned item
> changes.
>
> Regards
> Vampire
>
>
> John Smith schrieb:
>
> Hi:
>
> I am using Windows 7 64-bit, and I've pinned jedit to the taskbar.
> However, when I launch it, a second icon appears, and the original one I
> pinned is in "running" mode.  I've noticed this for many other java apps,
> such as Eclipse or Netbeans.  Does anyone know how I might fix this?  If
> this requires programmatic changes, could someone tell me how jedit.exe
> works (i.e., how does it launch the java program), so I might fix it?
>
> Cheers,
> user
>
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