Some General Queries

[Sameer Shinde]

1. How to register a font using font file on a Windows workstation
using java?

2. How to position cursor in a textfield when the application is
started?

3. What is the standard way of deploying a Java application?

4. Is it possible to place a Java GUI Application in the system tray
on a windows platform when we minimize the same?

5. I have to execute a GUI application which is packaged as a jar file
which accepts some command line parameters. How can i create a
shortcut to this application on desktop? How to pass command line
arguments to it?

 

[Andrew Thompson]

2. How to position cursor in a textfield when the application is
started?
Component.requestFocus();

3. What is the standard way of deploying a Java application?

5. I have to execute a GUI application which is packaged as a jar file
which accepts some command line parameters.

See 3.

( well, 3 out of 5 ain't bad.. ;-)

HTH

 

[Andrew Thompson]

<http://localhost:8080/codes/javafaq.jsp#jws>

'This page best viewed by coming over to
my house and viewing it on my monitor' ;-)

...*this* one is for more general consumption..
<http://www.physci.org/codes/javafaq.jsp#jws>

 

[Thomas Weidenfeller]

1. How to register a font using font file on a Windows workstation
using java?

(a) If the font should be available for all applications: By some
Windows-specific operation which you best ask for in a windows group.

(b) If you just need it in your Java application, you don't register it,
you use it: Font.createFont().

2. How to position cursor in a textfield when the application is
started?
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/misc/focus.html

3. What is the standard way of deploying a Java application?
JWS

4. Is it possible to place a Java GUI Application in the system tray
on a windows platform when we minimize the same?

Only with platform specific JNI code.

5. I have to execute a GUI application which is packaged as a jar file
which accepts some command line parameters. How can i create a
shortcut to this application on desktop?

(a) They way you create any other windows shortcut

(b) Sun recently started some project to improve desktop integration. A
first version is available as some of the projects on www.java.net

How to pass command line
arguments to it?

By providing them on the command line.

/Thomas

 

[Roedy Green]

1. How to register a font using font file on a Windows workstation
using java?

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/font.html

2. How to position cursor in a textfield when the application is
started?

The cursor is called the "caret". Check docs with that understanding.

3. What is the standard way of deploying a Java application?

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installer.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/javawebstart.html

4. Is it possible to place a Java GUI Application in the system tray
on a windows platform when we minimize the same?

That happen automatically on my machine Win2k.

5. I have to execute a GUI application which is packaged as a jar file
which accepts some command line parameters. How can i create a
shortcut to this application on desktop? How to pass command line
arguments to it?

Most easily done with an installer. Otherwise you much compose a *.lnk
file and store in in the desktop directory.

 

[Thomas G. Marshall]

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/font.html


The cursor is called the "caret". Check docs with that understanding.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/installer.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/javawebstart.html



That happen automatically on my machine Win2k.

System tray. Not Task Bar.

 

[Thomas G. Marshall]

Thomas G. Marshall

System tray. Not Task Bar.

Sounds rough. Before you respond, I meant it as a question.

 

[Roedy Green]

System tray. Not Task Bar.

For that you will need JNI. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jni.html

Anything peculiar to windows you won't find in the standard java
library.