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

[Alan E. <ala...@gm...>]

I run jEdit from the command line sometimes too, using "javaw" and
other times I run jedit.exe.
it would be nice if the ID was the same no matter how I started it.


2011/3/24 John Smith <leg...@gm...>:
> Thanks.  After looking at Launch4j, I don't think the fix is there.  Reading
> around, it seems like jEdit might not be setting its Application User Model
> ID (AppUserModelID).  So what is happening is that I have jedit.exe pinned
> to the taskbar, but when I launch it Windows 7 thinks the actual program is
> javaw.exe.
>
> I referred to the following links for my information:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd378459%28VS.85%29.aspx
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1907735/using-jna-to-get-set-application-identifier
>
> Is it acceptable for me to modify jEdit to explicitly sets it's Model ID on
> windows 7?  This would of course be OS-specific.
>
> On 23 March 2011 21:39, Vampire <Va...@je...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> other Java apps also do similar things to prevent multiple startups of the
>> app.
>> As I said, the jedit.exe is Launch4J generated. You find the sourcecode in
>> the Launch4J project at http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/.
>> In the jEdit source you can find the corresponding configuration file at
>> http://jedit.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/jedit/jEdit/trunk/package-files/windows/jedit.launch4j.xml?view=markup
>>
>> Regards
>> Vampire
>>
>> John Smith schrieb:
>>
>> 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 but it is not accepted and rather outdated now.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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