I’ve been working on a desktop compose app for a w...

# compose-desktop

[spierce7]

I’ve been working on a desktop compose app for a while, and I just tried compiling it to a osx DMG today. When I try and run the app, it just hops up and down and then closes.

I have some folders that almost definitely aren’t being packed into the DMG. Two questions:
1. What’s the best way to get output or logs from a compiled Desktop application?
2. How do I pack additional asset folders into the executable?

[romainguy]

On macOS you should find the logs in the Console system app

[olonho]

@alexey.tsvetkov wdyt about assets?

[alexey.tsvetkov]

Currently we only support resources packed into jar files.
Open a request at https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/issues
Ideally, with examples of how you would like to pack and use resources.

[spierce7]

https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/issues/938

[spierce7]

@romainguy I’m actually not seeing the logs in the console app. I see lots of other apps.

[spierce7]

Actually - I found it in the system log file. All it’s giving me is (<http://application.com|application.com>.your.application.69737319.69737409[42608]): Service exited with abnormal code: 1

[Nik]

@spierce7 Try the Gradle :runDistributable task and you should get the native distribution’s output logs in the IntelliJ console

[Nik]

As far as accessing other files — I used a workaround with Thread.currentThread().contextClassLoader.getResource("some asset or resource file I know is in src/main/resources") to get the directory of my JAR, opened that Jar as a JarFile and iterated through its entries() to open an InputStream to each resource with Thread.currentThread().contextClassLoader.getResourceAsStream(""). I copied from the InputStream into a folder that would end up at ~/Applications/my-app.app/Contents/Resources/ and then I just reference that as my new file root from wherever I need to do File I/O throughout the application. Would be nice if we had something on a Gradle level that packaged this for us, hopefully the above feature request leads to that

[spierce7]

@Nik Thank you… the runDistributable task is exactly what I needed. The issue is that the files aren’t found.

[Nik]

@spierce7 Another workaround I had for this — creates a writable copy of the DMG, copies your src/main/resources to the Resources folder, copies back to a read-only copy, may help as well

buildAndAddResources.sh