alice-teacher Creating executable file in Netbeans using the Alice 3 Plugin

[Don Slater]

Penny,
We do not yet have a pipeline setup to allow you to convert your Alice 3 project into an executable file. We are working on such a tool, but it is not yet ready.

It may be possible to import your project into NetBeans using the NetBeans Plugin for Alice, and then creating an executable .jar from NetBeans, but we have had mixed results with this process.

After converting the project to NetBeans, the Alice project, when you click the Run button, the ApplicationRoot is setup and reads the property "org.alice.ide.rootDirectory”. In there it looks for the platform directory that holds the OS specific libraries like jogl and ffmpeg.

You can set this property in code before ApplicationRoot is used by calling

	System.setProperty("org.alice.ide.rootDirectory", "./“);

This should be the first line in main().

Make sure that second directory holds the platform folder with the required libraries. It is not quite a single file, but it can be run.

If you attempt this, please see the note below about correctly setting up the VM options in NetBeans.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

All the best,
Don Slater

Alice Project
> On May 7, 2018, at 2:00 PM, Penny Ventrone <pventrone at pinckneypirates.org> wrote:
> 
> Is is possible to create an executable if an Alice file has been used to begin a project in Net Beans?  
> 
> I apologize if this has already been covered somewhere.
> 
> 
> Penny Ventrone
> Business Teacher
> Pinckney Community High School
> 810.225.5715
> 
> pventrone.weebly.com <http://pventrone.weebly.com/>
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