Hello everybody! I need some help with something a...

# tornadofx

[Sergen Peker]

Hello everybody! I need some help with something and I hope someone is willing to.

So the past month I've been busy creating a very simple app for a client of mine. It is essentially a simple GUI for them to fill a database with questions and answers and stuff that will be used in a mobile app.
Now, this is the first time I used TornadoFX for such a job. It looked very simple and I got the job done pretty nicely.

There is a problem tho:
I finished the application, but I can't seem to export it in any sort of way. That being a .jar or an installer or anything.

I'm using IntelliJ for this and I've tried a few methods, like just building artifacts and creating an installer using The Badass JLink/Runtime Plugin, but none seem to work.
I am basically desperate for help at this point, because if this doesn't work I will have to make it from scratch again in something like JavaFX, which I sincerely do not want to do.

I hope someone is willing to help me. I'm new to this Slack but I hope you can message me or respond to this.
With kind regards,
Sergen

[Bogdan]

I can provide a relatively working example (package unfinished). Run console ./gradlew runtimeZip or run task runtimeZip in IDEA

build.gradle.kts

[Sergen Peker]

Hi @Bogdan! I used parts of your build.gradle.kts to run it. It took a lot of fiddling around but it finally built successfully when I ran ./gradlew runtimeZip. In the image you see what I got in my build folder right now. I am pretty positive the one I need is NcbAdminPcApp-win (NcbAdminPcApp is the name I gave my application), though I still don't know what to do with this. Inside there's 4 folders (bin, conf, legal and lib) and 1 file without file extention (release). Can you help me further? I'd really appreciate it!

[Bogdan]

this is the result of the runtime task. task
runtimeZip - creates an archive based on these files. The archive is located in distributions

[Bogdan]

the launch is in bin, there we are looking for a script with the name of your file

[Sergen Peker]

@Bogdan I see ncb-admin-pc-app (again with no file extension) and ncb-admin-pc-app.bat

[Sergen Peker]

In a zip file in the distributions folder that is

[Bogdan]

1 - unix*
2- windows

[Sergen Peker]

So it should start the application if I open the .bat file on Windows?

[Bogdan]

[Bogdan]

So it should start the application if I open the .bat file on Windows?

yes

[Bogdan]

In a zip file in the distributions folder that is

clarification, it collects for the platform under which you collect. JavaFX requires native library. Can be modified for all architectures at once

[Bogdan]

https://badass-runtime-plugin.beryx.org/releases/latest/

[Bogdan]

examples: https://github.com/beryx/badass-runtime-plugin

[Sergen Peker]

Yeh I did try those things and have been on the websites you sent. Still, when I run the .bat file it does not open my app.

[Bogdan]

running in the console?

[Bogdan]

displays errors

[Sergen Peker]

How do you run a .bat in the console?

[Bogdan]

I don't even know how to explain it to you. Let's take it simply and run :D.

Two options, run through the full path or through the relative. In the second case, you need to go to the folder with the binary.

console: name.bat

[Bogdan]

google: run bat file console

[Bogdan]

Did I understand correctly that you are using Windows?

[Sergen Peker]

Yes I am using Windows. When I try to run the batch file however, nothing happens. No errors or anything, just nothing gets printed.

[Bogdan]

in the chat I see that you do not know about the main method, this is the entry point of the program in Kotlin

[Bogdan]

main.kt

[Sergen Peker]

I did know of it, I just didn't know it was necessary. I added it now but I'm not sure what to put in the main class value, it keeps saying it can't find it.

[Sergen Peker]

tasks.withType<Jar> {
    manifest {
        attributes["Main-Class"] = "main.kotlin.com.kukumavcreations.NcbAdminPcApp"
    }
}

[Sergen Peker]

[Sergen Peker]

NcbAdminPcApp.kt is the one with the main method

[Sergen Peker]

And when I put

manifest {
    attributes["Main-Class"] = "com.kukumavcreations.NcbAdminPcApp"
}

I still get the error
Error: Could not find or load main class com.kukumavcreations.NcbAdminPcApp
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: tornadofx/App

[Bogdan]

name + Kt

[Bogdan]

show declaration fun main

[Sergen Peker]

It's simply what you sent

fun main() {
    launch<NcbAdminPcApp>()
}

[Bogdan]

attributes["Main-Class"] = "com.kukumavcreations.NcbAdminPcAppKt"

[Bogdan]

if the function is declared in top-level then you need to add the file Kt to the name

[Sergen Peker]

Ok I did that now, but now I still get the following error
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: tornadofx/App
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:1012)
at java.base/java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:150)
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.defineClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:862)
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.findClassOnClassPathOrNull(BuiltinClassLoader.java:760)
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClassOrNull(BuiltinClassLoader.java:681)
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:639)
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:188)
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:520)
at com.kukumavcreations.NcbAdminPcAppKt.main(NcbAdminPcApp.kt:46)
at com.kukumavcreations.NcbAdminPcAppKt.main(NcbAdminPcApp.kt)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: <http://tornadofx.App|tornadofx.App>
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:641)
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:188)
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:520)
... 11 more

[Bogdan]

are you running java -jar or bat file?

[Bogdan]

for the first, you need to specify the libraries

[Sergen Peker]

The .jar, I'll try the bat now

[Sergen Peker]

The .bat started! That is awesome

[Bogdan]

.jar is just your classes (files), unless of course you are using the shadowJar plugin. Therefore, you also need to specify the classpath.

[Sergen Peker]

Ah ok understood. Well the .bat works so I think I'm good now. I can't thank you enough bro!! Awesome of you to help me and I thank you for your help!

[Bogdan]

I spent a lot of time on the complete assembly myself.

this assembly includes the JVM - this is a fully working application without the need for dependencies

[Sergen Peker]

That's very nice man! Thank you again for providing it for me ahahah, I'm finally done 😄