Jar file doesn't work

[Jennifer Sohl]

Hello. I have created a jar file and put a shortcut on my desktop so I can just click on it and run it. However, when I double click the shortcut, it acts like it's going to work, but then the hourglass goes away and nothing ever comes up. No errors either. Can someone please tell me what's going on??
Thanks!

[Jennifer Sohl]

Okay, I changed javaw.exe to java.exe, and briefly got a DOS prompt that told me I had a null pointer exception. Which brings up another question. I am getting the NullPointerException on an Image. Why can't it find the image? It's in the jar file along with everything else, so why can't it see it??

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

If you run the jar file from the command line, the errors that are generated won't disappear. After you have it working, you can change it to a shortcut.

[Jennifer Sohl]

Thanks for the reply. The application runs just fine from the command line. I just can't seem to get it to run from a jar file. It can't seem to find the image in the jar file, but it's in there. Is there something I missed?

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

Did you run

java -jar MyApp.jar

from the command line?

[Jennifer Sohl]

I just realized what you meant after I posted the last time. Sorry. When I try to run the jar file from the command line, It says it failed to load the main-class from the manifest file.

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

Do you have a manifest.mf file in your jar?
[ February 14, 2003: Message edited by: Marilyn de Queiroz ]

[Jennifer Sohl]

Yup. Any other ideas?